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U.S. PS3 Game Prices Staked At $59.99

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-least-they're-cheaper dept.

Despite some confusion last week about pricing on PS3 titles, U.S. gamers (at least) will be able to buy titles for Sony's console at a manageable price. Gamespot reports that the official Sony site is listing PS3 games at about $60. This includes seven launch titles, including a first-party game. From the article: "Shoppers can now preorder Ubisoft's Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Activision's Tony Hawk Project 8, Call of Duty 3, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog and Full Auto 2: Battlelines, as well as Sony Online Entertainment's Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. The pricing of Untold Legends may reveal what future PS3 owners feared--that first-party games would retail for the same price as third-party games." Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs notes that 360 games are already dropping in price, and hopes Sony will follow suit next year.

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  1. Repeating again.. by Square+Snow+Man · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm going to repeat it again because some people still keep saying you need to buy all cars and tracks in Gran Turismo HD.
    The news was actually that everything would be avaible in the game when you bought it but when you want to unlock cars (which you normaly win or buy with in-game credit won from races) you could pay for them instead of needing to win all races.

    1. Re:Repeating again.. by Phisbut · · Score: 2, Informative
      I'm going to repeat it again because some people still keep saying you need to buy all cars and tracks in Gran Turismo HD. The news was actually that everything would be avaible in the game when you bought it but when you want to unlock cars (which you normaly win or buy with in-game credit won from races) you could pay for them instead of needing to win all races.

      And I'm going to repeat a question I asked earlier on, do you have a source for that info? The only info I have so far comes from 1up.com and it says :

      The microtransaction-focused game, Gran Turismo HD: Classic will be the online-focused entrant into the GT-series. In this game, players will (reportedly) start with no cars or courses available to them. Instead, they will need to purchase their stable of cars and courses to race on.

      If that's the case, you can hardly win any races when you've got no car to ride and no course to race on. Has this report been debunked in any way?

      The availability of all cars by winning races is as much a rumor as the need to buy them all so far.

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  2. Affordable in the USA, but not in Europe by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here in the UK we're expecting PS3 games to cost between £49.99 (the RRP of 360 games) and £69.99 (apparently for huge games on Bluray discs). This is the information game retailers have so far. Just for American readers - £49.99 is currently $94.

    I honestly think Sony will make themselves Public Enemy #1 here in the UK if they try to sell a game for £70, but they've already shown they don't care about Europe in general anyway.

  3. Re:that's a STUPID argument by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Oh, relax. Just to keep beating on a dead horse, the payment is to unlock cars without winning in-game races. It's always been the case in Gran Turismo series that you need to win races to get certain cars, right? You haven't lost anything; Sony is just giving you an opportunity to cheat.