But still, Rockstar Games wants to charge a ludicrous amount for their upcoming Grand Theft Auto game under the belief it's AAA quality warrants it. But making it so damn high would mean only the slightly-rich could afford it. Fans are upset about this and believe all games should have a maximum price to sell at, such as £60-70 or so.
The fact Nintendo are selling their games so expensively only gives Rockstar and other studios the impression that it's perfectly acceptable marketing to hike up your games prices if it's regarded AAA.
Rockstar Games relied their earning mostly from the games.
Unlike SEGA who got more money from merchs, licensing, and franchise colabs.
Rockstar don't have that.
Other example is Rovio.
They are like SEGA, most of their earning are from Angry Birds plushies, toys, and merchs, not from their games which only $1 each at that time.
When their merchs sales went down and fell by 43% during 2014, it affected big to them.
Rovio had to lay off 260 employees worldwide because of that eventhough sale for games was still good.
They then tried to make new earning by starting to micro transactions from their gamesbut it met with lot of backlashes.
