Blaze Entertainment, the company behind Evercade, has announced that it will soon be raising the price of games for its series of consoles.
This price increase is reportedly due to "increasing costs and demand for materials and international transport" and will come into place on January 30th.
According to the company, the standard cart price will be increased from £17.99/$19.99/€19.99 to £19.99/$24.99/€24.99.
Meanwhile, the cost of the company's giga carts will rise from £22.49 / $24.99 / €24.99 to £24.99/$29.99/€29.99.
This increase will impact both upcoming games and existing stock already with retailers, with the company stating that these changes will allow them "to secure more stock and improve availability throughout 2025 and beyond."
Judging from the responses on social media so far, the news seems to have divided opinions.
One Twitter user, for instance, defended the change, posting, "People shouldn't have an issue with this, your products are high quality, you get cool licenses, and we actually OWN our copies of these games."
They were joined in this by another commenter, who stated, "Totally fair. Would love to see older carts reissued, and happy to pay higher prices on specific games to secure great licenses."
On the other hand, there were some who expressed their disappointment with the change. One customer, for example, called the price increase "a little bit off putting", while another seemed to accept Blaze raising the price on future releases but questioned the decision to raise the cost of existing carts.
You can read the blog post, where the news was originally shared here. We'd love to know your thoughts!
[source evercade.co.uk]
Comments 12
Seems reasonable
Cool, now could there be a more reliable stock of carts and controllers for those of us in the US?
Perfectly fine. Inflation, increased business costs in the UK, and growing ambitions at Blaze (more staff, more expensive licences etc).
They seem to have gotten on top of cart quality as well which is nice. Hoping for some big hitters this year!
Makes sense, plus it's announced after SNK getting named as coming to the ecosystem this year.
I always though evercade cart price is too cheap, I have no problem with it of course lol. But yeah, $5 increase is okay, it's the same price as most indie games and you get a physical cartridge with full colour manual, I think it's worth it.
Putting the price of newly produced carts up makes sense, but am I missing something, or does increasing the price of stock that retailers have already purchased not just mean that the extra profit goes to the retailer and not to Blaze? So that won’t benefit Blaze at all.
THey've already been that price on amazon
@PopetheRev28 Indeed. Prices on Amazon are often over retail.
Great. Now if there were more places in the US that ISNT Amazon that'd sell it. I'm not supporting Amazon any further
@Aiodensghost Blaze aren't some big international company and if it wasn't for the likes of Amazon there'd be no presence in the US. If people stop buying the carts they will stop offering them at all.
I have no problem with paying a little more, considering the value. I would like if Blaze upped their stock numbers and did some reprints! These eBay prices are scary for emulation.
This is how they get you. They suck you in with a low price and slowly raise it.
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