{"id":114925,"date":"2020-07-02T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365860"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T22:13:00","slug":"take-two-interactivea-%c2%99s-nba-2k21-will-cost-10-more-on-next-gen-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/take-two-interactivea-%c2%99s-nba-2k21-will-cost-10-more-on-next-gen-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two Interactive\u00e2€ \u0099s NBA 2K21 will cost $10 more on next-gen consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take-Two Interactive has opened up pre-orders for its multi-generational release NBA 2K21<\/em>, highlighting one possible feature we might see more of with next-generation games: a MSRP higher than the industry-standard $59.99.<\/p>\n

Those looking to pick up NBA 2K21<\/em> on either the Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 are met with a $69.99 price tag for the standard edition of the game, $10 more than what the game is retailing for on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, or Switch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too early to tell if this new MSRP is an outlier or a next-generation norm, but Take-Two defended the price hike in a statement to Kotaku today<\/a> saying the price \u201cfairly represents the value of what\u2019s being offered: power, speed and technology that is only possible on new hardware.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cost of game development has certainly increased over the past few console generations while game prices have remained largely the same, so the idea that we can expect a higher price tag for next-generation titles doesn\u2019t feel like it’s coming out of left field.<\/p>\n

Despite that, upping the price of individual games is an interesting way to cover for those pricier development cycles after considering the heads of triple-A companies like, for example, Activision Blizzard tend to grossly out-earn<\/a> the developers directly involved in making those studios’ games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take-Two Interactive has opened up pre-orders for its multi-generational release NBA 2K21, highlighting one possible feature we might see more of with next-generation games: a MSRP higher than the industry-standard $59.99. Those looking to pick up NBA 2K21 on either the Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 are met with a $69.99 price tag for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}