inFamous becomes almost-Greatest Hits game, drops to $40

by Andrew Yoon on Dec 3rd 2009 3:00PM

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Sucker Punch's superpower game has sold 1.2 million copies, according to a recent update by the PlayStation.Blog. According to Sony's rules, that's enough to make the game a certifiable "Greatest Hits" title. However, a game can't don the ugly budget box art until ten months after the game's original ship date.

Until then, inFamous will get an almost-Greatest Hits price for its almost-Greatest Hits status: $39.99, effective immediately. Also, the former GameStop-exclusive power-up Gigawatt Blades will be available for all as a free PSN download, starting December 10 -- a nice freebie for latecomers to the game.

Considering Black Friday has already passed, it seems like Sony may have missed the best opportunity to announce a price drop on inFamous. Of course, there might be another motive behind this move: to keep this game on the mind of video game editors (and fans) readying their GOTY lists.

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Tags: gigawatt-blades, greatest-hits, infamous, price-drop, Sandbox, SCE, Sony-Computer-Entertainment, sucker-punch, Sucker-Punch-Productions, Third-Person-Action

Reader Comments (62)

Heh, thats weird timing, had just put Infamous back in to finish getting platinum, would of liked those gigablades but will be done with it by then.

Hey, free equipment! I already got the Platinum, I don't know if I'll go back to use them, but I'll sure download them anyway.

Im going to get it because i did want it at the beginning but never had money for it. glad to get it now that its 40$ :)

Infamous is unfortunately another example of how great games released mid-year get forgotten when GOTY nominations go around.

wow great timing i just ordered it from bestbuy on monday for $43 and with a free $20 PSN card i was wondering why it was $40

also what size do i need to make my avatar for it to show up? i tried 64x64 but i guess it didn't do it :/

Eh...just played the demo. Wasn't bad, but nothin special. Was the real game like 20x better or something?

I'd be really disappointed if this game is on anyones GOYT lists. It was such a subpar effort. A better game in the same genre was easily Prototype. And a better game on PS3 was easily Uncharted 2 (although I just picked up Flower on the recent sale and it too is outstanding... maybe not PS3 game of the year, but definitely a candidate for PSN game of the year!).

....Fuck you...just Fuck you

@The Pirate - Let me guess, you just bought Infamous yesterday for full price, and you realized the hard way that the games no good. Then you read today that you could have spent less money on a subpar game but you lost your receipt so you're out of luck. Now you're upset. Am I close?