Capcom makes the leap to $70 games with Dragon’s Dogma 2

Turns out that games are expensive.

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Capcom’s upcoming and long awaited sequel Dragon’s Dogma 2 will seemingly be the developer’s first $70 title.

Since the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, developers have slowly been transitioning from a $60 to a $70 price tag, often citing increased development costs as the reason behind the change. Looking at listings of Dragon’s Dogma 2 on the PlayStation and Microsoft stores, it appears that Capcom is finally embracing that change right before it heads into a new fiscal year. Last night, Capcom officially confirmed that the game would be launching March 22 , one of the studio’s last big releases before the 2024-25 financial year kicks off.

Now, to be clear, yes it’s annoying that games are getting more and more expensive, especially when a lot of us are having to pinch our pockets a bit more. At the very least, though, Capcom does often hold some pretty hefty sales for its games post launch - Resident Evil 4 Remake , which only released back in March, was as much as 50% off for Black Friday , which you certainly can’t be too upset about considering it’s up for game of the year at The Game Awards .

It’s also not an unsurprising change, as just this September Capcom’s president and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto noted that he felt " game prices are too low ," making note of increased development costs and wages. Capcom did increase its staff’s salaries by 30% last year , in a massive contrast to the wave of layoffs we’ve been seeing over the past year, and in particular over the past few months.

If you haven’t checked out yesterday’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 trailer yet, the bottom line is, it’s looking very good so far, with flexible looking combat and massive monsters you can climb all over. Seems like it’ll be a mistake to miss out on this one.

Dragon’s Dogma 2

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