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Resident Evil 4 for iPhone Will Cost $60
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Anyone here played the 2009 release of Resident Evil 4 for iPhone?
Phone was 2099 Euro. The game runs on switch too with 4GB ram. M1 doesnt support ray tracing.
It’s some apple decision to push their iphone 15p sales but I think this will backfire. Normally game publishers are interested to reach as many potential buyers as possible. Apple does their apple way which IMO will not work with games.
market cap is phantasy powered by (cheap) money. Not seldom even bankrupt companies skyrocket. Value can change any time. From FOMO to panic. FED printed trillions of dollars, now they stopped and we see a sliding market.
Usually they come with perks like beta access, play 3 days early, in game currency and things like cosmetics or guns, etc.
The version on the Switch is based on the 2005 original game, the version on the iPhone is based on the 2023 remake.
How about access to 500 times as many potential customers?
I wouldn't buy this for $60 but there are other titles I would gladly pay $60 for if I could play them on multiple devices (Studio/MBP/iPhone).
Then let the developers optimize the code and make the game 30% more ram efficient. Reduce resolution a bit. Whatever. But it’s not about the game it’s about promoting the 15p.
If it was a brand new game not a now year old remake of an already really old game I’m guessing you wouldn’t see these bad responses. That’s the issue here with the price in this specific case.
That's revenue not units sold.The majority of gamers still care about physical as the majority of game sales on Nintendo Switch and PS4/5 are physical.
PlayStation's physical game revenues surge to new four-year high in holiday 2022
Sony made more from physical PlayStation game sales revenues in holiday 2022 than they have in the last four years as games unit hits all-time Q3 record.www.tweaktown.com
Do you have numbers of units sold of physical vs digital?
Aren't digital sale price more variable than disc sale price?
Pls provide number of units sold of physical vs digital.
Not revenue.
As you pointed out those are niche.
Pls provide number of units sold of physical vs digital.
Not revenue.
It isnt about barbarism it's laziness. And instant gratification. Why wait for overnight shipping when I can have the game platform just download it on a 1Gbps fiber connection that is slowly being deployed worldwide.
Again, I am writing from the perspective of the business and not a vintage gamer.
Buyers of brand new games will go with the current gaming PC & console.
Used games have little to no revenue from the business' perspective. Wasn't that rational of what Xbox tried to do years ago? Playstation played up that PR mess by saying you can play used games on their hardware.
Even if that is misleading it is more than 50% in 2022.
Consumer behavior's changing towards an all digital distribution model.
When 10th gen & succeeding gen platforms comes out they will be increasingly more digital.
There's even talk that there will not be a 8K blu-ray disc or disc player by 2026 because market forces a preference for streaming or downloads.
For movies & TV shows I've had an aversion to physical media since 2001 as a decade or 2 later they'll release a remaster or reissue. I much prefer streaming or downloads.
Just wait a few months it will go on sale… but yeah not making this a universal game to me seems ludicrous… the only reason I’d want this on my iPhone would just be to see how well it runs but I’d actually put the work in to beat the game on a proper console or computer with a nice big screen! Are they expecting people to buy it for iPhone AND Mac?
I've got a 15 Pro Max on the way, but there's no way I'm considering $60 for a mobile game with touch controls that I can get for cheaper and/or play better on the PS5 or Switch (and in some cases, desktop Mac). This whole "play console games on your phone" thing seems nuts to me.
I welcome this. Yes, the price is steep but the universal app that works across A17/M1+ Apple devices offers a good deal of flexibility. Add in the ability to use a USB-to-DP cable and "dock" an iOS device into a gaming monitor and you've got an interesting prospect. Yes, a lot of people will have a PS5/Xbox Series console, but there will also be a lot of people who still have a PS4/XBox One generation console and thus no access to some of these games. If (and it's a big if at this stage), more and more of these games come to iOS then these people would have the choice to not drop $/£400-odd dollars on a new console in favour of a Apple device they would buy or have anyway.
Lot's of reasons this approach could fail, not least Apple losing interest. I get the feeling Apple splashed a bit of cash to encourage Capcom to port the RE games.
Lot's of reasons this approach could fail, not least Apple losing interest. I get the feeling Apple splashed a bit of cash to encourage Capcom to port the RE games.
At $60 people without a gaming PC or console will buy that on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Also, people who want to play it on the go.
Remaster of the old game runs on Switch, not the brand new Remake, which is what runs on iPhone 15 Pro.
$/£400-odd dollars is money saved on a literal 1-trick-pony.
Smartphones, whether iPhone or Android, has so much utility beyond just being a phone. That's what killed so many big name phone brands and MP3 players.
So in terms of value for money and utility it is a better buy for over 1.2-1.3 billion users annually.
Uhh....this isn't very complicated. It's a Mac game that can be also played on a phone. For $60, in 2023, that seems reasonable. It would be like if I paid $60 for Final Fantasy 16 for my PS5 and the devs also included the ability to play it on my iPhone...not a bad combo if you ask me.
That's one of the attractions of the Switch.
It combines a Gameboy + console at a price that will not break their banks and yet Nintendo makes a profit per console made.
Real gamers on Xbox, Playstation & PC will mock it but it does not reflect to the astounding units sales or revenue Nintendo has made.
You can’t play RE4 Remake on the Switch. Also, you can use DualSense, Xbox controllers or Kishi/Backbone to play it on iPhone.
If I am not mistaken iOS, iPadOS & macOS allows for use of Xbox, Playstation and Switch controllers. So they can get the real deal controllers rather than what was used on the Titanic Sub.