- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Two companies decide how ODST is priced. Microsoft, and the stores.
Now, keep in mind that this game is absolutely the best one yet. New game mode, epic campaign, full multiplayer experience, everything. This game looks better than Halo 3 itself.
If I were to weigh things out and figure out how players respond to different pieces of gaming and price value in it, I would price ODST at least $70.
Now, also note that Microsoft is a business. They carefully decide how to price things. They have to decide whether to cater to the upper class to get more money from fewer people, whether to cater to the middle class and get less money from more people, or the lower class, which the majority of do not need Microsoft's products.
Which seems like a better idea, catering to the rich and gaining money from them, or catering to the average person and gaining people's lust for new products from them? They're still going to do things for the richer, but mainly they're spreading love to those who are average.
That being said, they need to price things at an appropriate level to get a good profit yet not mark it too high for most people to get. $60 is the normal pricing of highly anticipated games, and Halo 3 ODST is amongst the top five most hyped games ever (confirmation needed). History has shown that people who really want a game will shell out $60 for it. Halo 3 ODST deserves such a pricing, so Microsoft decided that mainly everyone who was going to buy ODST before would probably buy it at that price. They get a profit without losing customers.
There you go, that's why it's $60.