Famitsu Reveals Best Selling Budget Titles of the Year

Gratulation@4. Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots + (Yakuza) Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!

VC sells pretty well

Not to mention some NES games cost as much as $55...making it even much higher for what games should cost today.

@Finman702: When Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released, it cost $79.99, while most games were released at $49.99. If you take that the system was available since the end of 1996...lets just say we can use 12 years of inflation. Our amounts will be the actual inflation rates over 97, 98...07, 08 (09 amounts are not yet available) are 2.34, 1.55, 2.19, 3.38, 2.83, 1.59, 2.27, 2.68, 3.39, 3.24, 2.85, 3.85. With these values, those $49.99 games should not cost approximately $68.64 on release. Not to mention the better games like Zelda would cost as much as $109.83. Please do not use inflation to justify game prices. Gaming is an extremely cheap hobby now compared to what it was 20, even 10 years ago.

@ Ken That's usually 25-40% of the original price.

@Finman702 Yeah, and games back on the NES and Genesis use to range between 60 and 100 dollars. And that's without accounting for inflation. Do you really want to justify the price of PS3/360 games based on the practices over past overpriced games? Or do you want to perhaps think that the last generation was a measure of progress with lower game prices due to more competition and a bigger console gaming market? Personally I'll go with the latter. I don't think developers should use the excuse that just because the system is 'HD' that their games should cost more. Certain examples of games with exorbitant development costs may be necessary, such as a Metal Gear Solid 4 or Final Fantasy XIII. But other games...not so much. And I think its pretty crazy you guys are trying to find ways to defend the increased cost...do you like spending more money?

$60 adjusted for inflation is relatively the same price we paid for video games back on the N64, SNES, NES so on. I don't get all the hullabaloo.

@Avarice28 I don't own a PS3 or a 360. I was thinking of getting a PS3. But I was use to 'budget' games being $20 dollars or less. The whole statement of them raising some games to $60 dollars wasn't exactly a pleasant thing for me, but I accepted it since I don't always buy games day one. But if they're not even going to let games go down to $20, then geez. Investing into either of the HD consoles is a much bigger thing than even I previously thought.

@Kenroyku_Maxis Budget games on the 360 are 29.99 as well so what is your point? For other people who make more than 10$ a week it is a steal; 35$ dollar cheaper versions of very popular games is never a bad thing.

$30 is too much for you?

Geez, a 'budget' game on the PS3 is $30....suddenly getting PS3 doesn't sound too good anymore.

I don't remeber Hot Shots Golf 5 The Best or Kenzan! The Best being in a bundle. Ever. The original editions were though.

Yes, SE is COD's publisher in Japan.

It seems really odd to see the name Square Enix next to Call of Duty and Capcom next to GTA IV

Hot shots golf 5 , why isn't that game platinum yet?

does square enix publish COD in japan?

Even PSP wasn't included. I know the Monster Hunter budget game was the best selling budget game of the year. Maybe it outsold all of the other budget games combined?

You're probably right. Otherwise, why not include them?

Excellent work squad 7!!

nintendo doesnt do the re-releases. maybe im wrong

And Nintendo's Consoles???