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  random_gamer | March 19, 2008
  If it proves true soon, this is great news. I actually just bought I Am Legend for $18.87 on Blu-ray yetsterday from Wal-mart, and I'm still surprised by the price when the next cheapest is Best Buy at $27.99. Hopefully it becomes more the standard for new releases.
  
  And Heroes on Blu-ray? WANT!
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  Existenz | March 19, 2008
  How will this mean lower price 360 and PS3 games, Movies have been extremely cheap for years now, my last DVD purchase was £5, i don't see games selling for that on either DVD or Blu-Ray, this will not effect game prices since the fact of life games cost alot to make and they get that money from the sale of the product, while games development costs upwards of £20 million a game then games will not come down in price regardless of format, gaming isn't fortunate enough to have a cinema release that gets them most of their money back long before it hits DVD/Blu-Ray.
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  jmac353 | March 19, 2008
  Awesome. This is how Blu-Ray really wins.
  
  But yeah, there's no way this will affect PS3 and 360 games. Why? Because movies and games are way different. Movies make a ton of money off the box office and then go on to make a bunch more money through DVD sales. Please realize that movie theaters make a very tiny fraction of the money and hence why they charge so much for concessions.
  Games on the other hand have to make all that money just by selling their games and pay all those people and make enough money to be profitable and fund the next project.
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  Subzer0 | March 19, 2008
  Awesome! $10 for DVD's made my day. Until I get an HDTV (in like a decade from now), I'll be happy with DVD's. ^^
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    jmac353 | March 19, 2008
    Until you realize you should have just bought an HDTV and Blu-Ray player because of how awesome High Definition movies are and end up buying all those movies again just because they're in HD.
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  tallteen86 | March 19, 2008
  Cooool
  
  I do hope this leads to a price drop for games >_>
  
  If you really think about it, either 360 games are overpriced, or PS3 games are price-matched to 360 game prices >_> DVDs are cheaper than Blu-Ray after all...
  
  Well, the games are expensive, nontheless...
  
  Even if they lower the price soon, whats the betting they don't do it until AFTER GTA IV and MGS 4 are out?
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    jmac353 | March 19, 2008
    That made zero sense. GG.
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      tallteen86 | March 19, 2008
      It made plenty of sense if you had over 80 IQ points, I guess you don't >_>
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        Existenz | March 19, 2008
        It made no sense at all, games are expensive because they are expensive to make, they have to recoup their losses and then make a profit. In the movie industry they have what is called the box office where the majority of money is made back, the rest is then made from DVD sales, this is why DVD is so cheap.
        
        So at the end of the day this news effects gaming in no way at all.
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        VeGiTAX2 | March 19, 2008
        The news is on movie production not media pricing, disc media is dirt cheap as is for the kind of volume that they buy in. It would be like having this 10 years ago and the RIAA talks about music cd price reductions and then you posting saying you hope PSX games will come down in price soon because they happen to use CD media also.
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        tallteen86 | March 20, 2008
        Really? I KNOW games are pricey to make. But PS2 games are much lower in price. Sure, you could say that "Next gen games cost more to make", but still >_>
        
        Also, PS2/X-Box games were $10 less at the start of being released, compared to PS3 and 360 games...Not ALL of that is inflation you know >_>
        
        For another. Part of the high cost is the cost of the disk media (at least with Blu-ray, since DVDs are like, pennies a disk). With movies on both DVD and Blu-ray going down in price, it isn't so hard to imagine game disks going down in price too. Perhaps the reason for the Blu-ray (DVD movies have had room to drop in price for a while...main reason they dropped in price, was probably because Blu-ray was dropping in price) movies dropping in price is because the media is getting cheaper to produce, hmmmmm?
        
        Also, for another matter, movies cost about the same as games, sometimes more, sometimes less,, to make...Even with licensing fees for Sony and MS, that is still a big difference in price between Movies, and Games....
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        VeGiTAX2 | March 20, 2008
        Console producers have a fixed pricing bracket, MS had the $59.99 title in their original marketing presentations for the 360, $49.99 was supposed to be the pricing for MGS titles (I don't even think they still honor that really) the point was to cover the cost of "High-Def" game development in the new age of gaming which admittedly is high cost really, it's almost scary. Sony later did the same with their system and the Nintendo made their presentation kicker that they would be featuring their titles at a $49.99 price point for all standard titles.
        
        Given that DVD's have been bottom dollar for quite some time, it doesn't lend one to really follow such an idea at all, they had a point where they could have done that with the PS2 and the Xbox but it never happened unless a title broke into a greatest hits status (or if the code could be exploited but thats another story) Blu-Ray for what it is can be costly in small doses, but when you're a publisher buying in excess of 500,000 discs at a time, the cost ratio per disc drops radically. They're not spending $10 a disc, no, they're not paying anything close to it. The problem you're having is you're comparing the movie industry with the gaming industry, the movie industry makes money on multiple fronts of disc sales, movie ticket sales, license sales and digital download sales which up until recently they didn't give all that much credit to, but with the US broadband spec on the rise and more companies going digital and dvd backup software pretty much available to anyone, they need to figure out ways to allure more people onto physical media sales as you're not going to think to go blu-ray, or HD in general just downloading titles onto your itv or HTPC.
        
        Try to actually take all the modes of sales into the equation instead of just going "Movie production ~ Game production" you have so many other avenues to deal with on how movies continue to profit (globally even moreso) in comparison to gaming. The gap you're leaving/ignoring is huge and it's basically the only thing affording you the ability to claim what you're saying.
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  VeGiTAX2 | March 19, 2008
  Odd, not just a day ago there was a bit of a whitepaper going around showing that players have been on the rise since the format war stopped. Higher player cost and lower disc pricing? Why not just bring both down at once?
  
  This is without dropping onto your knees and taking up an older gen model from the shelves, some people would rather not get slow moving stock with mass problems *coughs*samsung*coughs*
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  Naruto Boy | March 19, 2008
  They need to drop the price for the PS3, and the Xbox360, also it would be nice if they drop the price for the games, at least for the PS3 and Xbox360.
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    VeGiTAX2 | March 20, 2008
    Licensing and component production keeps them high, if they go through another die shrink and maybe combine chipsets they could reduce cost over time (re-tooling plants does take a toll though and the research in the shrink costs as well). It's not like they just chop the price another $50 and take it on the chin so you'll be more inclined to think about getting one.
    
    The game prices are fixed by the companies, usually based on development cost, good luck on that one happening. A reduction by the MPAA doesn't mean the ESA is going to follow suit.
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  Storm | March 20, 2008
  Only price drops we'll see from these consoles are when they make it to the "Hits." Good news, though, price drops for movies.