Found this, I won't be very happy if they are £80 tbh I think its a complete rip off.
I'll wait and see what happens.
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2006/10/20/...ices-revealed/
Found this, I won't be very happy if they are £80 tbh I think its a complete rip off.
I'll wait and see what happens.
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2006/10/20/...ices-revealed/
wow i wonder if sony really think ppl are goin to pay £80 for a game
i cant see the games being 80 squid surely that would put people off buying a ps3 and worst of all for sony encourage pirated software!
i just cant see it myself!
from what i have seen on preorders from websites, they are about £50 delivered. Christ knows what game will charge for them then![]()
80quid for one game? No way....I bet Sony emplyees won't pay that much for a game!
It's not going to happen. The market wouldn't bear that price.
nah never going to happen -I never spend over £30 on my games and i don't intend to in the future
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That can't be true. There would be no hope for them otherwise.
but is this even clever marketing so that when people are hit with £50 a game price tags they just think. bargin, at least its not £80!?
this is why i despise consoles, you can hate MS as much as you wish but DX is the best (easyest, most powerful) api to develope games on, thank god they don't charge for licensing. Company of Heroes been £25!
when you think of inflation and how PC games haven't gone up in price at all, its quite barginrific.
I've just pre-ordered a wii, i hope nintendo don't try n charge £50 a game![]()
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I agree that up to £80 for a game is pretty ludicrous but its not exactly unprecidented, but as most people seem to have goldfish memories let me enlighten you. Back in the 16 bit era of the early to mid 90s when games on the Sega Megadrive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System all games came on cartridges, which were expensive to manufacture and the expensive went up with the amount of ROM used (typically between 8 MBit and 32 MBit) plus any co-processors dedicated to the game in question. This meant that a smaller / simpler game (ie. one that could fit on a 8 meg cartridge that required no extra processors) would retail at around £30, whereas games requiring a lot of ROM & co-processors (such as Virtua Racing on the Megadrive which was a 24 meg cartridge with a SVP 3D co-processor for doing all that lovely fast 3D) cost anywhere up to £70, and this was 12 years ago, so factor in inflation and in real terms even a £80 game today is cheaper! With Blu-ray once again manufacturing costs are a factor as the discs have to be made within very tight tolerances thanks to the data density of the discs and the focal point of the blue laser, add on top of this the high development costs already being associated with the PS3 then it all adds up to things getting expensive.
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Dont GAME always sell for the RRP (one of the reasons i never shop there) ? Could mean the games have a RRP of £79.99 ? And the online retailers will undercut like 360 games , which are £49.99 rrp but sell online at £39.99 at most places .
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