PS3 games £52 each

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http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/734/734950p1.html

From a website

"SONY'S NEW new super soaraway PS3 games will cost punters a stonking $100 or £52 when the machine is finally released.

Japanese site Impress Watch, citing "multiple information sources", claims that PS3 games will be concentrated in the £39-52 range. Currently only bigger titles on the PS2 reach the £39 mark.

At the heart of the price rice was the fact that Sony has been unable turn the PS3 into an open platform in time. It has not produced a development environment, manuals, security management and community features.

This means that Sony has gone for a traditional business model where the price of the PS3 will be low, but it will make up its cash from software royalties.

As we know, the cost of the PS3 will not be that low, so the prospect of £52 games will probably make owning and running the console extremely expensive. The Xbox 360 console will be much cheaper and its games are nearly £20 less."
 
ben_j_davis said:
As we know, the cost of the PS3 will not be that low, so the prospect of £52 games will probably make owning and running the console extremely expensive. The Xbox 360 console will be much cheaper and its games are nearly £20 less."
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Since when is the RRP for full price Xbox 360 games, £32?
 
Most expensive PS3 games will be £49.99 RRP, with many places and e-tailers doing them at £39.99 or £44.99.

Really cant see it being any different to the 360's pricing.
 
dirtydog said:
Since when is the RRP for full price Xbox 360 games, £32?
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since the rrp of a PS3 is £600 which seems to be a favorite number kicking around here :p

i agree with Nismo, i think the games will be the exact same pricing as the 360, although some etailers will porbbaly be £50 also, for the first few months
 
No way they'll be £52, hopefully it might start a little war going between MS and Sony on game pricing but I reckon for a majority of games it'll be exactly the same.
 
TBH is the RRP is $100 I doubt we will see a direct currency conversion. It will be currency conversion plus the usual UK hike.

So IF they retail $100 in the states I think the retail will be nearer £59.99 with games readily available for £49.99... but this is all if's, but's and maybe's.
 
lordrobs said:
TBH is the RRP is $100 I doubt we will see a direct currency conversion. It will be currency conversion plus the usual UK hike.

So IF they retail $100 in the states I think the retail will be nearer £59.99 with games readily available for £49.99... but this is all if's, but's and maybe's.
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I'd agree with you there. Definately a chance of seeing £59.99 games but as you say, who knows?
 
punky_munky said:
I'd agree with you there. Definately a chance of seeing £59.99 games but as you say, who knows?
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While there is always a chance - I also see it being unlikely that anyone in the forseeable future goes beyond the £50 mark for psychological reasons this is a huge barrier (much like you see things stuck at 99p for ages and then shoot up to 1.15 or something rather than inching up slowly

This is the one problem I have with the X360, I refuse to pay so much for games, in the 8 months I have owned one I have had a lot of disposable cash but only bought three games because they are to my mind too expensive - would prefer a one off high cost (of console say) and have cheaper games than vice versa
 
Purchace price no longer worries me. I have started to do online rentals. IMO due to cost of owning games this is the future. I pay £15 per month and can play as many games as I can in that time. Which is better than paying £50 a pop.
 
punky_munky said:
You do have a point but remember, some N64 games cost nearly £60 and that was years ago.
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True that.

Anyway, if people aer gonna be able to afford an expensive console then it stands to reason you pay that little bit more for games.

The usual analogies will come into play about how the blueray discs hold the equivalent of 60 movies, a gazillion MP3's or 3hrs of ultra HD TV, developers aren't developers anymore but cinematics special effect personnel and music isn't created on a casio but a full orchesteral backing track.

If you wanna Ferrari, you don't run it on cooking oil do ya.
 
Kronologic said:
Purchace price no longer worries me. I have started to do online rentals. IMO due to cost of owning games this is the future. I pay £15 per month and can play as many games as I can in that time. Which is better than paying £50 a pop.
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I'm starting to look into this. I seem to only play one or two games at any given time so it would really suit me rather than having 8 games sat there dropping in value not being played for months on end.
 
lordrobs said:
I'm starting to look into this. I seem to only play one or two games at any given time so it would really suit me rather than having 8 games sat there dropping in value not being played for months on end.
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Thats the way I look at it. TBH I probably only play one game at a time. So haveing 2 games on loan suits me. I will hopefully have one game in the post and one game in the console at any one point in time, meaning I will always have a game to play.

I do not understand how people can go in and buy 4-5 games at a time. to me its expencive and you always end up playing one game exclusively and then maybe playing the others. At some point you will find a game you have never played and by that time you have no interest in playing it because GTA500 has come out and so you use this unplayed game as a trade in, for about £3
 
i love articles like this. they effectively debunk their own headline within the first half of the article;

"SONY'S NEW new super soaraway PS3 games will cost punters a stonking $100 or £52 when the machine is finally released."

when it then states;

"Japanese site Impress Watch, citing "multiple information sources", claims that PS3 games will be concentrated in the £39-52 range. Currently only bigger titles on the PS2 reach the £39 mark."

surely paragraph 1 insinuates that PS3 games will be £52, when infact the majority of them will be inbetween £39-£52? thats crazy talk.
 
FrankJH said:
This is the one problem I have with the X360, I refuse to pay so much for games, in the 8 months I have owned one I have had a lot of disposable cash but only bought three games because they are to my mind too expensive - would prefer a one off high cost (of console say) and have cheaper games than vice versa
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With the internet at your fingers you can find games cheap. I have purchased at least 10 games over the past 9 months and not one of them have cost me a penny, with some selling for more than I bought them for. You do need to sell them within the first month though but with most games they can be completed in the that time.
 
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