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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.
It's only a loss during the launch phase. Sony has always made a slight profit from hardware sales from the psx to the ps2 after that point. They've stated this many many times but I guess the consoles sold at a loss mantra will stay forever (xbox never helped with this either--losing like a billion per year for the entire division since it's creation).
Hmmm... Pie...
The launch titles are overwhelmingly sequels. So you really are paying to play stuff you've played before all over again, just with more polys.
You read and post to Slashdot. You own previous game consoles and games for them, plus the television to play it on. You can afford a PS3 and the games for it, but not an Internet connection and all the gaming possibilities that can give you?
You either live far away from civilization, or allocate your money in other ways of your choosing and therefore shouldn't be complaining about not having money for whatever.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
"Yes there are people who will pay that much, there are people who pay tens of thousands of dollars for a watch or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a car."
Right. So what better way to get everyone's business than to price the PS3 rather high at launch to get the folks who will shell out any price and then come down on that price later to get everyone else? How much were people paying for 360s and PS2s on eBay at launch? Sony might as well price high enough that they get that money instead of some store clerk with better access to the inventory than most folks. They can come down in price later when they actually have more consoles produced. Besides, if BluRay really does catch on and gets mass produced in DVD-level numbers, the console manufacturing price will drop sharply. That's an awfully big if but it's an if Sony has bet their console's success or failure on.
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.
I'm ragingly pissed off at the 360 for Oblivion charing micropayments for "Horse armor" mods
You're pissed off at a console because a software producer decided to charge for a ridiculous add-on? You can buy the horse armour for the PC version too, you know (along with other add-ons that I also can't be bothered with).
It's official. Most of you are morons.