NBA Jam HD Hitting Stores In November, Will Cost 50 Bones

" @patrick said:

" @Quansto said:

" This game has DLC written all over it. "

Except the part where it came out on the Wii and got fine reviews. Oops. "

Actually, I wasn't talking about the quality of the game, but rather the "tacked-on" nature that EA gave it. No oops needed, just read it more carefully chief. :) I would totally pick this game up, $15 sounds about right. Shame about the Wii, hope you didnt get stuck with the $50 for something A LOT of people almost got for significantly less; dodged a bullet there lol.  "

so lets get the wii version then? 
 
i was like OOOOH  AWESOME and then i was like AW DAMN.

I feel like the rest of the world just caught up to what I've been saying about this game the whole damn time. It's a shinier version of a mid-90s arcade game for $50. Yeah, no thanks.

idiot fucks and pieces of shits. nobody's gonna buy your game now. imbeciles

Christ, 50 bucks?  I was hoping for 40.  

Yeah... 50 bucks makes this a no go.

If Activision pulled this shit they would be crucified.

Remember when EA used to be the definition of evil?
 
Pepperidge Farm remembers.

" If Activision pulled this shit they would be crucified. "

" @Sil3n7 said:

" If Activision pulled this shit they would be crucified. "

Who's pulling what "shit"? Selling a fully featured game for full price?  Doesn't matter if it's Activision, or EA, or LJN for all I care. Just because people think that they're entitled to pay what they want to pay for this game, doesn't mean that the companies should bow down to them and cater to their every whims.  "

" Remember when EA used to be the definition of evil?  Pepperidge Farm remembers. "

Personally, I'm willing to pay up to $25. Guess I'll be picking this up this time next year in the bargain bin.

Seriously, You kids need to stop being a bunch of fucking babies. it's 50$ on all platforms and it'll be HD on 360 and PS3? grow a pair! suck it up!
 
OH NO! I HAVE TO SPEND MONEY FOR A FULL FLEDGED GAME!
 
to the articles credit though. the way Nicholson worded the title is fucking amateur, and is possibly the catalyst for all this bitching and whining   

" @Sil3n7: The way I see it, compared to the bare-bones game that was coming with NBA Elite, you're getting the Remix Tour mode as well (so boss battles & all those extra characters, Backboard smash & other mini-games), not to mention whatever else that is promised in the "free title update". Oh and online play which the Wii lacks. For the same price as the Wii version. 
  
Again, you're acting as if you're entitled. It has all the features you want from an NBA Jam game. Honestly, what else could you want from the game that would make it worth your money? What's your reasoning as to why it's not worth $50? Is it because you deem it as an "arcade" game? And don't give me the argument that there are fully-featured XBLA games for $15, because on the other hand, there are games that are much less replay value that are selling for $60 easily. Why is NBA Jam getting crapped all over when it's selling for $50? Just because you'd rather pay $20 for the game doesn't mean that EA or anyone else thinks its worth $20. "

" The things that annoy me most about modern gamers is the feeling of self-entitlement. "

I was interested in NBA Jam HD after the quick look, but not even to pay full price.

Where was this price bitching when the Wii version was announced?
 
I'm really asking.  These comments have me dumbfounded.

Grow up, cheapskates. 
 
Yes, it was going to be free but only if you bought NBA Elite and it was going to be stripped of features. 

NBA Jam is worth full price any day of the week. It was like this on the SNES, the Megadrive, the PSX, the 64 (Hangtime) and even the remake on PS2.

" @Wrighteous86 said:

" The things that annoy me most about modern gamers is the feeling of self-entitlement. "

"

I'm late to this thread and haven't read every comment but, to me, as a non-Wii owner and NBA Jam fan; I was totally psyched to hear that it was free with Elite. 
 
Flash forward to Elite being utter shit.  "NBA Jam is no longer free with purchase of our $60 Elite game; we shall, instead, charge $50 for said "free game" because our 
$60 game is a piece of shit and we can't fix as-mentioned piece of shit that quickly but, we love your money."    
 
I understand the stripped  features argument but would those 
stripped features equal to $50 worth of XBLM purchases?

" I'm late to this thread and haven't read every comment but, to me, as a non-Wii owner and NBA Jam fan; I was totally psyched to hear that it was free with Elite.  Flash forward to Elite being utter shit.  "NBA Jam is no longer free with purchase of our $60 Elite game; we shall, instead, charge $50 for said "free game" because our $60 game is a piece of shit and we can't fix as-mentioned piece of shit that quickly but, we love your money."     I understand the stripped  features argument but would those stripped features equal to $50 worth of XBLM purchases? "

Rargh! I don't want to spend $50 on this game, EA must be evil!
 
Goddamn, guys. Grow up.

I really hate to say trite and cliche things, but in a case like this, it seems appropritate. 
 
*ahem* 
 
"lolumad, bro?" 
 
There I said it.

I guess I'll go find my old NBA Jam cartridge then.

If this was $15 on XBLA I'd buy it in a second. Hell, I'd buy it at $20. But $50? Give me a break.

Mmm, $40 is the sweet-spot on this game for me.  There just doesn't seem to be enough playtime value in it to warrant a $50 price tag.  On the other hand $40 puts it at the bargain price level in my mind, so I am willing to overlook a lot for that amount.   I'm going to hope that when the game drops next month, some online retailers have it on sale.  And, yes, $10 is a big enough price difference to keep me from buying a game.  It's the same amount (usually) that prevents me from wasting money on collector's editions, too.

It'll be interesting to see how this goes down.
 
I think EA may be making a mistake here. Seems to me that they saw a lot of buzz surrounding NBA JAM, a lot of comments about how "I'm gonna buy Elite just to get JAM".
 
The question now is, how many of these people would've actually gone through with this when it was time for the money to change hands, and how many were exaggerating what they really thought it was worth just to express that they like NBA JAM?

I like NBA Jam. This doesn't really feel like a fifty dollar game to me, though. I guess I view it in the perspective that I'd turn on my Sega Genesis to play a game of NBA Jam T.E., and that was pretty much it for the week. I like the series. It's goofy fun. I'm just not into it hardcore, and I think it might be hard for me to reason with myself that I would get the most out of it with fifty dollars, y'know? I don't know. I'll need to sit on this for a week or two before I decide whether I'll get it right now.

 Why are some of you guys seem upset that people are complaining about things being to expensive?
That's what we do!

" @Sil3n7: That's fine that other people don't want to pay $50. If that's what they want,  they can probably get a copy new for less than $30 by March. I just think it's stupid that people are getting all uppity about this whole "value for the price" thing. It's like when Limbo came out & people bitched that it wasn't worth $15 because it was only 3 hours long and compared it to other XBLA games at the same (or lower) price. Don't compare it to anything else, you decide how much you are willing to spend on the game and go with that. NBA Jam isn't a gimped, half-assed game. EA believes it's worth $50. I feel that I'll most definitely get enjoyment out of the $50 I'll spend on that game.    
 
Also, this thread is probably full of the same people who said they weren't going to buy Left 4 Dead 2 but did anyway. The same people who said that the Modern Warfare 2 maps for $15 were a rip off but bought them anyway. You all want to make a statement about a game's worth? Quit bitching about it and decide with your wallet by not supporting this game. "

Yup. Its because Elite was pushed back

" I don't understand why everyone is so up in arms about this.. The Wii version is $50 and no one had a problem with that. Plus, this version is in HD and has online. The "free" version that came with Elite was just going to have Exhibition mode. That's like an eighth of the game.  "

" @Sil3n7:  People were fine when they had to pay $60 dollars for the game (along with Elite - which many admitted they didn't want) and it had much less in the way of features.  This exact same game came out on the Wii, minus HD graphics and an online mode for the same exact price and no one bitched.  You're getting more than Wii gamers for the same amount of money, and the game reviewed well on the Wii.  That means most reviewers thought it was worth it for gamers to pick it up.  Adding two major features and releasing it on another console for the same price a month later means reviewers probably think it's an even better deal than what the Wii users got.  People just got in the mindset that it would be released cheaper because it was originally a stripped-down pack in.  They've added more to it, to make it on par with the Wii version, so it only makes sense that it would have price parity with that version.  If they added those two features and made it $30 cheaper like some gamers say they wanted/expected/deserved, that would be an enormous "Fuck you" to every gamer that bought it on the Wii. "

But it's the same as the Wii version. Why is there so much bitching? I know that this is the internet but this is a nicer looker Wii version plus online for the same price.

Funny how there wasn't this much bitching when the Wii version was announced for 50 dollars. 
 
Then if the game didn't sell because it was too expensive people would be like "See, Wii games don't sell." 
 
But now that it's coming out for the other consoles with more features and hd graphics all for the same price people are like, "HELL NO!!"

" But it's the same as the Wii version. Why is there so much bitching? I know that this is the internet but this is a nicer looker Wii version plus online for the same price. "

" @Wrighteous86 said:

" @Sil3n7:  People were fine when they had to pay $60 dollars for the game (along with Elite - which many admitted they didn't want) and it had much less in the way of features.  This exact same game came out on the Wii, minus HD graphics and an online mode for the same exact price and no one bitched.  You're getting more than Wii gamers for the same amount of money, and the game reviewed well on the Wii.  That means most reviewers thought it was worth it for gamers to pick it up.  Adding two major features and releasing it on another console for the same price a month later means reviewers probably think it's an even better deal than what the Wii users got.  People just got in the mindset that it would be released cheaper because it was originally a stripped-down pack in.  They've added more to it, to make it on par with the Wii version, so it only makes sense that it would have price parity with that version.  If they added those two features and made it $30 cheaper like some gamers say they wanted/expected/deserved, that would be an enormous "Fuck you" to every gamer that bought it on the Wii. "

No it wouldn't 1. It was going to be free with elite  2. Games on 360 and PS3 command higher standards and lower prices to be worth a damn. Their catalog is leaps and bounds greater than the Wii's. You only need to compete with whats on the platform. So the fact you say "oh the wii version was 50" doesnt mean anything because what does it have to compete with??  Answer: Nothing. "

I would have rather got this as a downloadable title. It's like paying $50.00 for a super deep HD X-Men arcade game in retail. 
 
This is just a glorified arcade game and I don't think I can personally pay retail prices for that.
And why do the consumers have to suffer for EA's incompetency from NBA Elite 11?
Now, we the consumers have to make up for their loss of sales like it's our fault. 

*sheep noise*

I was looking forward to this; I loved the original.   But $50?  I'll pass.

So people bitched that they put NBA Jam with Elite, and now they're bitching that it's a stand alone product.  That costs the same amount as the wii version.  Except it has online play so it's a better deal. 
 
That is what's happening.

Fuck nba elite and NBA 2k11  Nba jam is way better than both of those anyway.

it's cool
but it's not 50 dollar cool

EA need to make an arcade spin off of Fifa for current consoles, and no I don't count Fifa Street 3 as that was just tragic.