Welcome everyone to episode 20 of Play Watch Listen. I'm Alana, I'm joined by Austin, Troy and Mike, all of whom work on video games.

And today we are talking about the recent, I guess, reveal that NBA 2K, which is why I chose a basketball background,

is going to be $70 more expensive on next-gen consoles. The idea behind this specifically is that 2K is the one who's going to break gaming's de facto $60 ceiling,

asking $70 for next-gen NBA 2K21.

Do you guys think this is going to be, because everyone's kind of assumed,

this is going to be something everyone else is going to do?

Do you guys think this is going to set a trend or is this just a one-off or just 2K potentially?

Depends if people buy it.

I mean, that's it.

Like, things cost as much as people are willing to pay, right?

Like if they don't see a dip in terms of unit numbers, which would, I mean, they're going to anyway because it's a generation change.

So that always muddies the water a little bit. But they will have their estimates. And

if they think enough of the audience come with them on that price change, they'll,

they'll stick to it, you know. It really is a vote with your wallet's kind of situation, right?

Like, right down the line. I feel like people will. I don't think that's going to be... Sure. You can't keep people from their video games at this point.

And there's a lot of games that already have a way higher price than that when you factor things like season passes and all the stuff that people are already spending.

Collectors edition.

Yeah.

I mean, like, I remember when Star Wars Battlefront came out, I just thought, I just, it sold me so, so hard. And I went and did the whole fucking top of the line season pass. It was like 100 bucks. And I paid for 15 minutes and got my ass kick so hard that I was like, I'm remembering why I quit playing games like this a long time ago,

like tribes and stuff that I used to be so into.

And then, and then, because keyboard and mouse, I can hold my own.

But with a, with a freaking PlayStation controller, I just suck.

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