It has been two years since 2K began the shift of industry-standard pricing for triple-A video games. Various studios have followed suit since, and now Ubisoft has confirmed it won't be holding out any longer. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Skull & Bones will be $70 when it launches later this year, and from then on that will be the standard price for Ubisoft's big games.
It had already been confirmed that Ubisoft's on-again, off-again pirate game would cost more than the studio's previous titles. However, it wasn't until this week that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed to (via ) that the higher price point will be the studio's standard moving forward. “Some of the games will come at the same price as the competition. The big triple-A games will come at $70,” Guillemot confirmed.
Some of the competition the CEO references have indeed already made the jump to more expensive current-gen games. 2K went first, confirming NBA 2K21 on PS5 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X|S would be the first to sell for $70 before the new consoles had even launched. EA, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision are just a few of the studios that have followed in 2K's footsteps in the two years since then.
Confirmation that Ubisoft will now be charging $70 for its triple-A titles comes just a few days after it unveiled its extensive plans for the future of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Next on the AC slate will be Mirage, and despite it launching in 2023 after Skull & Bones, it'll actually cost less than it and the industry standard at just $50. That's because the AC game with a Baghdad backdrop will be smaller in scale than a typical Assassin's Creed game.
Upping the industry standard for current-gen games by $10 has been a point of contention for the past two years. Ubisoft admitted in February 2021 that it was undecided on whet🐷her it should make the leap or not, and held out for a lot longer than most likely expected. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Of Us Part 1 recently added a new spin to the price increase discourse as players questioned whether a remake of a game less than ten years old, which has already ꦕbeen remastered, could ever really be worth $70.