View Full Version : ESPN NBA/NHL 2K5 also $19.99?!?!
WolfmanNCSU
07-21-2004, 02:03 AM
Check it out. I hope its true.
NHL
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/243622.asp
NBA
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/243620.asp
JoeyC2k4
07-21-2004, 04:15 AM
if it is true...i expect to have both titles in my cabinet
Tim-XE
07-21-2004, 04:21 AM
I will, too. I'm curious to see how ESPN NHL 2k5 will turn out with the lockout this season, though. Last year's game was the best hockey game ever, despite a handful of issues that needed to be corrected. Since hockey is my favorite sport, I hope they took care of some of the problems.
WolfmanNCSU
07-21-2004, 05:41 AM
Interesting, College Hoops is still the normal $49.99 price.
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/243618.asp
battleroyal
07-21-2004, 02:42 PM
From what I have heard, ESPN is going to bring all its new games down to the $20 mark...but I do find it curious that college hoops is still that high.
ComposerRyan
10-29-2004, 08:31 AM
I think it is the smartest marketing that Sega lowered the prices on all ESPN games. I think it is ridiculous that games are $50 standard when huge Hollywood blockbusters like the Matrix movie is only $20. If a DVD movie can be cheaper than a game, than that means games need to lower their price. And Sega has caught on - if every developer were to do this, game sells would double. :D
Tim-XE
10-29-2004, 04:21 PM
I think it is the smartest marketing that Sega lowered the prices on all ESPN games. I think it is ridiculous that games are $50 standard when huge Hollywood blockbusters like the Matrix movie is only $20. If a DVD movie can be cheaper than a game, than that means games need to lower their price. And Sega has caught on - if every developer were to do this, game sells would double. :D
Sega simply lowered the price so that people who'd previously only tried the EA Sports games would give Sega Sports a try. I doubt their games will be $20 next year. Games are more expensive because they don't appeal to the same amount of people as movies do. A movie may cost more than most games to film, but the film studios then have 3 ways to make their money back...box office receipts, DVD and VHS sales and then rental costs, not to mention that a larger percentage of the population is interested in movies than videogames.
Games have cost about $50 to purchase since the NES era, so we should at least be thankful that the prices haven't inflated alongside the development costs. Perhaps games would sell double if the prices were lowered to budget prices, but the developers and publishers would be losing out on 1/5 of the money their making now if that were the case.