Don’t like $70 games? Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon’s Dogma 2 publisher Capcom says wait 5 years and they’ll all be $5

Price reductions are always on horizon… unless it’s a Nintendo game

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Capcomhas outlined its “basic strategy” for pricing new games, which includes slashing the price tag down to $10 or $5 after five years or so.

The Resident Evil andMonster Hunter Wildspublisher said as much during its fiscal yearfinancial results Q&A. Capcom supposedly looks to “maximize the unit sales volume and profit” for newly released games over a five-year period. “While only an outline, our basic strategy for pricing titles begins at launch when games are sold for about $60; over time, we gradually reduce the price according to market value.”

The publisher explains that “after about five years,” it will “typically” reduce the cost of a game to $10 and then $5. Capcom says it gave lizard-pant-making sim Monster Hunter World a price reduction last year and offered the game for $9.99. Alongside the announcement of Monster Hunter Wilds, the price reduction led to “significantly increased” sales for the mammoth game, which recentlymoved past 25 million units sold.

Looking at Capcom’sSteamlistings reveals a slightly different picture, though. Resident Evil 7 and Dead Rising 4, both seven-year-old games, aren’t normally priced at $10 or $5. Both are regularly on sale, however, and you can grab both for the price of a cup of (expensive) coffee right now, so Capcom might have been referring to discounts rather than permanent price reductions. Either way, the message is the same: wait long enough and you can get your $70/$60 games for cheap. There’s more than enough to play in the meantime.

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