Dragon’s Dogma 2 is Capcom’s first $70 game

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is Capcom’s first $70 game.

The company started taking Dragon’s Dogma 2 pre-orders shortly after announcing a March 22, 2024 release date on Tuesday.

In the US, the standard edition of the game is priced at $69.99 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Steam, which is $10 more than Street Fighter 6 and the Resident Evil 4 remake cost when Capcom released them earlier this year.

The decision to charge $70 is perhaps unsurprising given Capcom’s president reportedly said in September that he believed games should cost more to buy.

“Personally, I feel that game prices are too low,” Haruhiro Tsujimoto said during the Tokyo Game Show, according to Nikkei.

“Development costs are around 100 times higher than they were in the days of the Famicom (NES), but the price of software hasn’t risen so much.

“There is also a need to raise wages in order to attract talented people. Given that wages are rising across the industry as a whole, I think the option of raising unit prices is a healthy form of business.”

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The move to raise software prices sees Capcom following in the footsteps of several other major publishers.

In August 2020, Take-Two’s NBA 2K21 became the first current-gen game to be priced at $70. The likes of Activision, Sony, EA, Square Enix, Nintendo and Microsoft followed suit, while Skull & Bones will be Ubisoft’s first $70 game.