{"id":849287,"date":"2025-05-18T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-70-80-games-are-a-steal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:12:14","slug":"beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-70-80-games-are-a-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-70-80-games-are-a-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Ex-PlayStation Boss Believes $70, $80 Games Are a Steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<header>\n<section>\n<p>Compared to other entertainment, anyway<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/users\/4271\/avatar.jpg?v=1529104267\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Entertainment get2sammyb\"><\/li>\n<li>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/authors\/get2sammyb\">Sammy Barker<\/a> <span><\/span> <time data-days=\"5\" datetime=\"2025-05-18T15:15:00+00:00\">Yesterday, 4:15pm<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<section>\n<figure><a title=\"Beloved Ex-PlayStation Boss Believes $70, $80 Games Are a Steal 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/45667e89f0da5\/beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-usd70-usd80-games-are-a-steal-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/45667e89f0da5\/beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-usd70-usd80-games-are-a-steal-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Entertainment Beloved Ex-PlayStation Boss Believes $70, $80 Games Are a Steal 1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ex-PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida believes $70 and $80 games are a \u201csteal\u201d when compared to other forms of entertainment<\/p>\n<p>The newly independent executive was speaking at Gamescom LATAM, where he was inevitably asked about the rising cost of games. Almost all publishers bumped the price of their software up to $70 at the start of the PS5 generation, but now Microsoft and Nintendo have announced they will increase the cost of some of their software to $80.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCTm-cxuYTQ\">Critical Hit Games<\/a>, Yoshida spoke in favour of variable pricing: \u201cEach game has different value it provides, or the size of budget. I totally believe it&#8217;s up to the publisher \u2013 or developers self-publishing \u2013 decision to price their product to the value that they believe they are bringing in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure data-videoid=\"y-XGB8_bQ3s\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-XGB8_bQ3s?rel=0&#038;hd=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;autohide=1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube Video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/javascript:\"'\" data-src-fallback=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/y-XGB8_bQ3s?rel=0&#038;hd=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;autohide=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-XGB8_bQ3s?rel=0&#038;hd=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;autohide=1\" data-consent=\"targeting\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"890\" height=\"501\" data-src-primis=\"https:\/\/live.primis.tech\/live\/liveView.php?s=117168&#038;vp_content=embed4a3519istnvw&#038;schain=1.0,1!ziffdavis.com,22392450815,1\"><\/iframe><figcaption>Subscribe to <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\">Push Square<\/a> on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\"><span>YouTube<\/span><span>156k<\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><figcaption><a title=\"Watch This Video on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y-XGB8_bQ3s\">Watch on <strong><span><\/span> YouTube<\/strong> <span><\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/clair_obscur_expedition_33\">Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> recently found significant success at $50, for example, despite it having the production values of a much larger-scale release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of actual price of $70 or $80, for really great games, I think it will still be a steal in terms of the amount of entertainment that the top games, top quality games bring to people compared to other form of entertainment,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>While we can see where Yoshida\u2019s coming from \u2013 games can offer hundreds of hours of entertainment compared to a movie ticket, for example \u2013 it\u2019s really difficult to justify such enormous costs when free-to-play releases exist. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see what kind of impact these prices have on the industry.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>[source <a title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCTm-cxuYTQ\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCTm-cxuYTQ\">youtube.com<\/a>, via <a title=\"External Link: https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/gaming\/articles\/former-playstation-exec-says-70-201206067.html?guccounter=2\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/gaming\/articles\/former-playstation-exec-says-70-201206067.html?guccounter=2\">tech.yahoo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/users\/4271\/photo\/0\/avatar.jpg?v=1709294233\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Entertainment Sammy Barker\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/authors\/get2sammyb\"><span><\/span> Author Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/get2sammyb.bsky.social\"><span><\/span> Bluesky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"return replyTo('get2sammyb');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/#\"> Reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/05\/beloved-ex-playstation-boss-believes-usd70-usd80-games-are-a-steal\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Leigha Schroeder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to other entertainment, anyway by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 4:15pm Ex-PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida believes $70 and $80 games are a \u201csteal\u201d when compared to other forms of entertainment The newly independent executive was speaking at Gamescom LATAM, where he was inevitably asked about the rising cost of games. Almost all publishers bumped the price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23793,1798,90487],"tags":[16310,128838],"class_list":{"0":"post-849287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beloved","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-ex-playstation","10":"tag-beloved","11":"tag-ex-playstation"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}