3rd February 2005, 3:09 PM
Quote:What matters is how expensive they are to make, not how much Sony thinks they can sell them for by themselves...
No, what matters is how much those particular headphones would sell for on the market. Haven't you ever taken a basic business class before? Production costs don't mean everything.
Quote:True, but the Nintendo GBA games were always officially $30, right? It was the third-party stuff that was over that, if I remember correctly. Here it's Sony saying that the standard PSP game price will be $40. There's a difference there. It's not surprising, though -- between the fact that the PSP is a powerful console that asks for expensive-to-make games and other factors (is PSP media more expensive to make than DS cards?), I'd expect it to cost more than GBA or DS games. As for the DS, I'd expect that the cheaper-to-make media at least partially helps with the fact that the games presumably cost more to make than GBA games...
Yes first-party GBA games were always $30, I think. Though some stores do sell Mario 64 DS for $40. $40 would be a perfect standard PSP game price, while $50 might be too much. I'm hoping that third-party games don't go over $40 within a year of the system's lifecycle.
As for how much each format costs to produce, since UMDs are basically little dvds with plastic cases around them, they should be much cheaper to manufacture than GBA carts and even cheaper to manufacture than DS cards, which are basically SD flash cards.