• PS4 digital game prices revealed for UK (Hint: it ain't good)
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[B]Source:[/B] [URL="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/439928/ps4-digital-game-prices-revealed-for-uk/"]here[/URL] [QUOTE=computer and video games][IMG]http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/dir_3122/image_312252_460.jpg[/IMG] As the PS4 release date is this Friday, November 29 in the UK, the list below can be considered incomplete, because other launch titles such as NBA 2K14, Sound Shapes, Flower and DC Universe Online have yet to be added to the PlayStation Store. Of particular note are the EA titles, which are priced at £62.99. Their Xbox One equivalents cost £54.99. Killzone Shadow Fall: 38.2GB - £52.99 Call of Duty: Ghosts: 31.8GB - £54.99 FIFA 14: 9.9GB - £62.99 Battlefield 4: 36.4GB - £62.99 Need for Speed Rivals 16GB - £62.99 Knack 34.8GB - £52.99 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: 21.7GB - £57.99 Resogun: 460MB - £12.79 (Free with PS+) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: 6.4GB - £52.99 NBA Live 14: 9.3GB - £62.99 Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition: 21.7GB - £52.99 Just Dance 2014: 22GB - £42.99 Contrast: 2.3GB - £12.79 (Free with PS+) Super Motherload: 393MB - £11.99 Trine 2: Complete Story: 2.6GB - £14.49 Putty Squad: 818MB - £13.99 Madden NFL 25: 13.1GB - £62.99 Angry Birds Star Wars: 1.5GB - £32.99 Warframe 4.1GB - Free [/QUOTE]
How can they cost more than they do in the shops? This is eShop levels of bullshit.
[QUOTE]Angry Birds Star Wars: 1.5GB - £32.99[/QUOTE] This has to be some kind of sick joke, how can an angry birds game even be this big in the first place?
[QUOTE]Of particular note are the EA titles, which are priced at £62.99. Their Xbox One equivalents cost £54.99.[/QUOTE] ???
I want to see the Xbox One digital games price listing. Peggle 2 - £62.99 Peggle 2 Level Pack - £24.99 Peggle 2 Season Pass - £36.99 Peggle 2 Pack of 5 Lives - £14.99
Well shit, looks like stealing video games got a lot more profitable. :v:
Still cheaper than Sweden.
£62.99 is roughly 100 dollars what a joke
62 fuckin quid. r u havin a giggle.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;42977170]this has to be a joke, how the hell can angry birds game even be this big?[/QUOTE] if you mean 1.5 GB, probably making their textures mega ultra fuckoff huge if you mean in general, because people with money i can sort of understand why it costs more than in-store; convenience. god damn, i feel bad for uk gamers. unless pay there is enough to compensate for the huge price tags. then not so much. iunno im not in the uk
It seems you went the way of Australia.
Looks like I'm coasting this generation on PS+ free games.
1$ = 1£ rite guys
If you notice, the only games that are 62 are the ones published by EA.
A real Steam competitor.
These prices are ballshit, but at the same time I don't think I'm prone to buying a AAA game digital currently because of their file size. The price for the indie/XBLA style games seems about what I expected though.
Meanwhile, the steam winter sale hits soon.
£32.99 for angry birds what the actual hell
Did they ever fix steam pricing? I always remembered how online distributors EVERYWHERE busted people's balls outside of the US.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42977434]If anything, the EShop should be cheaper, since you're not even getting a physical copy.[/QUOTE] Tell that to Steam.
The only £62 I am going to pay is £62 EGP. They can fuck right off, and I'll stick to PC.
Welcome to the club, over here I pay more than double the price for anything [QUOTE=Swilly;42977421]Did they ever fix steam pricing? I always remembered how online distributors EVERYWHERE busted people's balls outside of the US.[/QUOTE] Only in some countries; in Brazil we pay nearly 15% less than in the US because it's not a straight monetary conversion I assume the reason for this is that you can't protect a market that doesn't exist (retail PC games) unlike consoles, who inflate the prices to shit, plus tax and console digital distribution is forced to play along with it I have to grit my teeth whenever I buy a console game because it's so much more expensive than PC, unless I import and even then there's the high risk of import tax (60%) on it
60 pounds for a game? I feel for UK.
Disgusting. How do they think they get away with these prices if people know steam?
Yay for my pc, When its the end of this new console gen i'll buy both consoles and get all the games pre owned for like £5 each.
[QUOTE=Vaught;42977211]if you mean 1.5 GB, probably making their textures mega ultra fuckoff huge if you mean in general, because people with money i can sort of understand why it costs more than in-store; convenience. god damn, i feel bad for uk gamers. unless pay there is enough to compensate for the huge price tags. then not so much. iunno im not in the uk[/QUOTE] no no there shouldn't be a convieniance charge for paying for a non-physical copy of your game.... they don't have to pay people to work with retailers, they don't have to produce physical copies, they dont have to transport them anywhere. Steam works because they keep the prices low by forgetting the cost for physical, and they keep the price at a low enough point that many people want to buy digital to save the cash. Microsoft and Sony have completely ignored that and are trying to pocket the cash that they saved from screwing customers
Games are bullshit prices anyway
You know it's bad when your country's games cost almost as much or as much as Australia's games.
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;42977486]Disgusting. How do they think they get away with these prices if people know steam?[/QUOTE] EA doesn't publish to steam so there's that
[QUOTE=O'Neil;42977235]It seems you went the way of Australia.[/QUOTE] Or just to Norway and Sweden.
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