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Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the retail price of video games is currently too low.

At TGS last week, Capcom president and CESA chairman Haruhiro Tsujimoto reignited everyone's favourite discourse subject: the price of games. As Nikkei (via Switchsoku) reports, Tsujimoto was discussing the topic of rising development costs, where he claimed that «game prices are too low». 

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The games industry is slowly but surely shifting to premium AAA releases now costing $70 instead of the $60 that had been the industry-wide standard for so long, with the likes of EA, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Activision, and Take-Two Interactive having adopted the new pricing model. And though Capcom is yet to shift to that new pricing model, it seems it won’t be long before that changes.

Capcom's president and chief operating officer has said he thinks game prices should go up.

Many studios have recently moved towards a $70 price tag for their games, despite pushback from fans. Now, as this is increasingly becoming the norm, Capcom seems poised to join them, saying that its current price point is just "too low" compared to the cost of development.

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