Those walking out of a UK store next month with a PS3 under the arm will no doubt be concerned about the retail price of launch games -- doubly so if they actually paid for the console on their way out. Sony has announced a £39.99 (€59.99) price point for first-party launch games, placing the likes of Motorstorm and Resistance: Fall of Man in the same bracket as Wii and first-party Xbox 360 titles. Presumably, the games will contain all of the content from their American and Japanese releases. Sony also notes that an "introductory period" will see PlayStation Network games priced between €2.99 and €9.99, with game-specific downloadable content starting at €0.99 and increasing depending on the product's scope.
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£39.99 = $78.32
I'm sorry UK, especially if Wii and 360 games are in the same range.
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Wii games tend to go for around £30-£35.
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I do chuckle anytime I hear someone bitch about $20 for Dragon Quest VIII. I have to remind them the Japanese paid $90 a copy for it.
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$78.00 - 13.00 = $55.00
That seems like a pretty good deal for first party games. The majority of games for the XBOX 360 are priced at £49.99. Overall, good move on Sony's part to price games competitively, especially since many of the first party titles are solid games that will attract a lot of attention at launch.
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Hopefully those other companies can stay competitive with $ony's low low prices.
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$78 - $13 = $65
It still looks a lot closer to US prices for first-party games.
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That extra $13 is still coming out of your pocket. Also, competitive pricing means using price as a competitive platform, meaning you go lower than the other guy.
Sony is a prime example of non-competitive pricing as they frequently assert that their product is worth the hefty price increase over their competitors. It looks like their game pricing is identical to the states, meaning same price as new 360 games, both of which are more expensive than Wii games. That's not competitive pricing.
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Not only console itself is overpriced, but with so few worthy games - 60€ price tag is really good recipe for slow suicide.
I want to buy PS3 - but would Sony give me any slightest chance to do that???
If Sony wouldn't drop prices ... OMG ... Okay, okay I'm leaving: Wii availability is not problem anymore over here and everybody's happy with 10 decade old non-crispy graphics.
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(Don't think i've EVER paid more than £30 for a game in my 15 odd years of playing them. Except maybe for Tie Fighter Collector's Edition - back when yu got a gigantic box, manual, keyboard layout, etc.. ..oh the memories.. sigh..)
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MS priced their games at £49.99 for 9 months before lowering them to £39.99 and I guess Sony had no other choice but to sell them for the same price despite being bluray rather than DVD.
MS must have sold a few million games in the UK at 49.99 at £10 ($20) extra thats a spicy meatball!
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"Sony has finally revealed how much you're going to have to pay for its first-party PS3 games at launch and it's less than the cost of Xbox 360's initial line-up.
Potential big hitters MotorStorm and Resistance: Fall of Man cost £39.99 (€59.99), as do with Genji, Ridge Racer 7 and Formula One Championship Edition. With many expecting Sony to follow Microsoft's lead and price its next-gen games at £49.99, it's nice to see we'll be saving a few extra pennies"
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