GT4 Backup

[Jay_83]

Originally Posted by SurfDrifter

You pay the same amount of money for Bust-A-Move and for GT4! .

Not in the UK you don't. All budget titles such as bustamove etc are released at £19.99 max. Many blockbuster stores here put a standard retail price of £12.99 on these from new.

Originally Posted by SurfDrifter

Imagine that Company A developed a game for 6 months and the consumer bought it for 60€ and Company B that developed a game for 4 years and gets paid the same. .

The same can be said about music, the price of recording the album/video can be drastically different but at the end of the day the more popular ranges will always sell more. Hence why GT4 took years to make and as you stated Bust - A Move was simply a arcade conversion. It'l never sell nowhere near as much as GT4 hence less profit.

Originally Posted by SurfDrifter

1) Why games cost differently between platforms? For instance, PC version costs 40€ and PS2 version cost 60€. I believe it has to do with royalties that pump up the price. .

The PC takes a lot less time to program for than a Console, with regards to cross console platform prices they're generally the same in the UK.

Originally Posted by SurfDrifter

2) Why there's a huge difference in price tags of the SAME game, same platform, in different territories?.

Take an RPG for example, Square-enix games created in Japan, then need to have all speech and ingame text translated and rerecorded (FFX for example). As for most other games yet again I can't see much price difference from buying the Jap region from LIK-SANG, the USA Region or the PAL.



The main point is that in your previous post you claimed

Originally Posted by SurfDrifter

I believe that this game must be the biggest commercial hit ever. Every person on the planet playing GT4 is using an original game!

simply because it can't be backed up at the moment. Thats what annoys me