Article written by tsa staff.
Published on 27/02/2013 at 01:30 PM.
Crysis 3 is this week’s PSN Store headline game, and it’s available at EA’s usual £60 ticket price – you may wish to have a look online for the disk version, it’s probably cheaper.
It comes with Dynasty Warriors 7 (at £35) and a whole stack of DLC and add-ons including the Need for Speed Most Wanted Deluxe DLC Bundle (£20) and the single player portion of Uncharted 3 (again, £20) – that’s one hell of a download though.
Also out is a slightly cheeky (early) BioShock Infinite Season Pass (£16), a similarly priced pack for Mafia II and the rest of the rather oddly priced DLC for Uncharted 3.
Elsewhere there’s a few Disney PS2 titles (Finding Nemo, The Incredibles), the full priced version of the All Stars Battle Royale DLC (it’s £8 if you didn’t get it when it was free) – along with millions of smaller packs for the game, and a Star Wars table for Zen Pinball 2 (again, £8).
There’s a PS3 game called Demolition Inc., Dawnguard for Skyrim (£6.49) too, a playable demo for God Of War: Ascension, a demo for Knytt Underground and – well – loads of other stuff.
Seriously, it’s a packed week.
Anyone know when the Black Ops DLC lands? Is it with this update, at midnight tonight or later tomorrow?
I do believe it’s tomorrow bud.
I wonder how many copies they sell at £60? Surely they can all be bought cheaper on disc.
Enough to carry on doing it.
Two things though, EA distribute the games at a price that suggests to the retailer to sell it for £59.99 (obviously competition drastically lowers this)
It wouldn’t be great for EA’s distribution/retail partners if EA then went and undercut them… Maybe when retail distribution is less relevant, but for now EA & everyone need the backing of all channels.
Secondly, I bought FIFA12 for £54.99 from the store & FIFA13 for £49.99 both much more expensive than retail’s launch weekend deals. The reason I did this was because I do play this game all year, solid. And having it available digitally is massively more convenient.
So perhaps people do it for their games of choice whether thats ME3, NfS, Crysis or whatever. One thing’s for sure is that they wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t worth it to them.
Madness buying something for more money because you can’t be bothered putting the disc in the slot lol
Its £38 on amazon, that is nearly double for download.
Dare I say the more people buy at these inflated prices the easier it is for them to keep it at that price.
Nothing to do with can’t be bothered, although it’ is enormously more convenient.
Who cares about a few pounds (at the time) when we’re talking about a whole year and hundreds & hundreds of hours. Not to mention wear on Blu-ray laser, rather than just a couple of weeks that most games last, if they’re lucky.
With FIFA & Warhawk just a button press away & whatever the flavour of the week is in the BD slot it’s suits my usage perfectly.
Nailed it with wear on the optical drive. Much rather have it on the HDD, though the sense of ownership is missing.
Good points about the retail RRP and not undercutting them via digital, I just assumed greed was the motive behind what seems excessive pricing when the costs via digital are lower.
Must be quite a few, or they wouldn’t keep doing it. Look at it this way- if we know it’s available digitally there’s more of a chance it’ll make it to PS+’s instant game collection.
That’s actually a really good point.
Those digital full game sales often end up quite high in the digital sale top 10 lists, to my surprise.
I paid considerably less for my pre-ordered pc-version on Origin and as bonus got the “hunter something” edition, soundtrack and full versions of Crysis 1 and Crysis 2 (which I did not have).
Here you have it your basic economics at work, the skimming principle.
God Of War HD Via PS+ and God Of War: Ascension demo for me.
Try the challenge of the Gods after beating GoW HD & let me know how long it takes you to complete
GOW was the hardest I think was it not? The Chains of Olympus was easy.
Looking forward to the Ascension demo though. It was the GOWIII demo that got me interested in the whole series, now I love it.
Took me about 2 hours ;)
It wasn’t too bad
Yeah, it took me about 2-3 hours too. The fact you have to start from challenge#1 again if you fail part-way through makes it more luck than anything imo.
GOW3s was the easiest (by far), then GOW1, then GOW2 (which was horrible at times lol)
Davey, you only restart if you fail and switch the machine off though, is it not?
Still a bitch but imagine it was complete all challenges first time. I’d have cried.
GoWIII was easy apart from Zeus.
I hated Zeus with a passion.
@kjkg – with regards to the challenges you’re right, sorry, forgot about that. As I was typing it I was thinking to myself “I’m sure I didn’t complete all out them without dying” lol…. still an arse though
God of War via PS+ & some LBP costume packs (if cheap enough) for me this time.
Quite fancying the NFS Terminal Velocity expansion.
Might get the Bioshock pass, there’s no MP so it should add more hours of SP. Star Wars table sounds like fun, but isn’t it much more expensive than the other tables?
I expect because of the license?
Just the Skyrim DLC for me.
Yep, same for me. I’ve loved going back to that game.
Does anyone know if Bit.Trip Runner 2 is out today?
Anything major for Vita today?
I gotta pick up those Star Wars tables for Zen Pinball 2 today.