It made no sense at all, games are expensive because they are expensive to make, they have to recoup their losses and then make a profit. In the movie industry they have what is called the box office where the majority of money is made back, the rest is then made from DVD sales, this is why DVD is so cheap.

So at the end of the day this news effects gaming in no way at all.

The news is on movie production not media pricing, disc media is dirt cheap as is for the kind of volume that they buy in. It would be like having this 10 years ago and the RIAA talks about music cd price reductions and then you posting saying you hope PSX games will come down in price soon because they happen to use CD media also.

Really? I KNOW games are pricey to make. But PS2 games are much lower in price. Sure, you could say that "Next gen games cost more to make", but still >_>

Also, PS2/X-Box games were $10 less at the start of being released, compared to PS3 and 360 games...Not ALL of that is inflation you know >_>

For another. Part of the high cost is the cost of the disk media (at least with Blu-ray, since DVDs are like, pennies a disk). With movies on both DVD and Blu-ray going down in price, it isn't so hard to imagine game disks going down in price too. Perhaps the reason for the Blu-ray (DVD movies have had room to drop in price for a while...main reason they dropped in price, was probably because Blu-ray was dropping in price) movies dropping in price is because the media is getting cheaper to produce, hmmmmm?

Also, for another matter, movies cost about the same as games, sometimes more, sometimes less,, to make...Even with licensing fees for Sony and MS, that is still a big difference in price between Movies, and Games....

Console producers have a fixed pricing bracket, MS had the $59.99 title in their original marketing presentations for the 360, $49.99 was supposed to be the pricing for MGS titles (I don't even think they still honor that really) the point was to cover the cost of "High-Def" game development in the new age of gaming which admittedly is high cost really, it's almost scary. Sony later did the same with their system and the Nintendo made their presentation kicker that they would be featuring their titles at a $49.99 price point for all standard titles.

Given that DVD's have been bottom dollar for quite some time, it doesn't lend one to really follow such an idea at all, they had a point where they could have done that with the PS2 and the Xbox but it never happened unless a title broke into a greatest hits status (or if the code could be exploited but thats another story) Blu-Ray for what it is can be costly in small doses, but when you're a publisher buying in excess of 500,000 discs at a time, the cost ratio per disc drops radically. They're not spending $10 a disc, no, they're not paying anything close to it. The problem you're having is you're comparing the movie industry with the gaming industry, the movie industry makes money on multiple fronts of disc sales, movie ticket sales, license sales and digital download sales which up until recently they didn't give all that much credit to, but with the US broadband spec on the rise and more companies going digital and dvd backup software pretty much available to anyone, they need to figure out ways to allure more people onto physical media sales as you're not going to think to go blu-ray, or HD in general just downloading titles onto your itv or HTPC.

Try to actually take all the modes of sales into the equation instead of just going "Movie production ~ Game production" you have so many other avenues to deal with on how movies continue to profit (globally even moreso) in comparison to gaming. The gap you're leaving/ignoring is huge and it's basically the only thing affording you the ability to claim what you're saying.