Next Gen Cost

Here is something I posted on the TeamXbox forums that I thought I would write down. Someone on the forums complained about the extra cost of 'next-gen' titles, here are my thoughts on the subject.

Well it's pretty subjective, some titles to you worth the $60 may not be worth that to others, gameplay is not something that you can attach a pricetag to and have everyone agree with.

For the most part I will agree with you however. Titles that are ports (and lets be serious here, a game with a few new graphical tweaks and the bump to high-def are ports) don't deserve the higher pricetag.

Games like GUN, THAW, Quake4, King Kong simply don't deserve the extra cost considering the titles exist on the other platforms and only add marginal improvements over the other platforms (if any improvements at all).

Titles like Outfit, Full Auto deserve the extra cost because they exist only on the 360 and while you may disagree at their visuals they do leverage the hardware and Live connection better than any last gen titles.

Titles like Burnout Revenge are a mixed bag. You could put them in the first category (not worth the money) but the developers have put enough effort into them as ports to make the extra cost worth it, better graphics, better sound, heavily expanded online options warrant the cost in my opinion.