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U.S. PS3 Game Prices Staked At $59.99
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.
I'd just like you all to know that I'm buying a Nintendo Wii. In addition to including five games for free (a $300 value, in the case of the PlaySt$tion 3) the games only cost $50 each. Furthermore I can purchase Virtual Console games for as little as $4.99.
In conclusion, I don't have a single friend who's buying the PlayStat$on 3.