"C.E. Forman" wrote: > > > Interestingly, although the manufacturing costs for manuals and > > packaging probably dropped considerably after this strategy, the prices > > for games stayed the same and with the introduction of the Euro even > > increased by roughly $5. > > That's the worst part of it. They decrease their costs but don't pass any > savings on to us. (Same way movie theaters piss me off by showing 10 > commercials before a flick while ticket prices remain constant.)
Not entirely true: Virgin specifically said that *all* of their new games now cost exactly $19.99. Which is true... ..except that all of them really, really suck! They used the box switch as a ploy, IMO, to think the consumer was getting professional games at half the cost. The move to smallbox packaging saved companies about a buck, if that. -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious PC games project? Drop by http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.demodvd.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
