There was much hoopla made about Mass Effect 2 getting a simultaneous digital release on the PSN and appearing on gaming stock shelves. Sure, you may have needed more space than Imelda Marcus’ wardrobe to fit it on your hard-drive, but it was an awesome achievement on behalf of the guys that run the PlayStation Stores nonetheless. Then, nothing. Where was it? The elusive monster download went completely AWOL, with little more than a “We’re looking into it” from the powers that be.
Well, crisis averted. It may not have made its lauded simultaneous release digitally, but Mass Effect 2 is now available to download from the Store.
You may need to delete some game data. Hannah Montana is looking good right about now.
Source: Twitter
jonny_bolton
What’s the price of this from the PSN store?
rainydays458
just had a look, its about £47, hope it’s a pricing error
Pete_UK
This kind of pricing is why PSN will fail. £10 – £15 more for a digital copy? Sony, I think it’s time you caught up with the real world.
icuyesido
You forgot to mention it’s price… £48. Was going to buy it if it were £40, oh well.
jonny_bolton
£48!? F’that!
Kovacs
You just did.
:)
jayjay119
48 Pounds..? Forty Eight Pounds? It’s not even that much at retail. Gamestation and Game are charging 39.99. How do Sony think they can get away with such insane pricing, especially for download with no packaging and shipping costs to consider. This is a prime exaple of why download only hasn’t and won’t go anywhere. Whoever Sony’s financial adviser is needs shooting!
Winkle
Its EA not Sony who set the price. Sony can only advise but I get the feeling EA dont listen.
teflon
Because it’s not Sony. They don’t decide the price, they just have the unenviable job of apologising on EA’s behalf.
ARUMIR Sympozium
Urgg… how many times does the finger of blame have to be pointed at Sony I’m sure the same can be said about Valve if EA did the same????
I’m not surprised that EA (the publisher, not Sony) have set the price near £50. That means I can’t buy another game with a £50 PSN voucher… not like I would waste it on one game but who would?
cc_star
The publisher wouldn’t want to undercut their partners in other distribution channels such as retail, s isn’t going to say to them here’s something with an RRP of £40-£50 which we’re going to sell via the PSN for half that.
At the end of the day it’s Sony’s framework the publisher is licensed to work in, so it’s Sony rules to abide by and Sony’s store they are selling through, so for Sony to always pin the finger of blame on the publisher is a bit of a cop-out, even if it’s based on a truth at some level, its far from the whole story.
mugsybalone
It doesn’t even need to undercut the other distribution channels, just be a reasonable price to pay. I’d put a £50 voucher in my PSN wallet over Christmas, had plenty of room on my hard drive to accomodate the game, and was happy to pay a little over the odds to get out of drving to the city to pick it up, or paying for postage.
But not £47.99 happy! That’s just insult to the injury of not being able to get it on Friday.
jayjay119
Exactly, I’m not expecting digital downloads to be enormously cheaper than the physical copy but consiering that it comes straight from the source with no packaging or postage fees attached, it surely should be a little under the price in stores. It should never be more, and certainly not laughably so as seen here. EA may set the price, but Sony is virtually store and should regulate prices. If Game or Gamestation were to charge the best part of 50 pounds, do you really think anyone would blame EA then? It’s the same principle.
tonycawley
its a bargain at 24 quid if you’ve got someone to gameshare with
mugsybalone
I thought gamesharing was frowned upon by Sony? I got an earful from one of the Playstation customer service lot after I tried to deactivate my old PS3 following a YLOD last October.
Samiro05
Gamesharing is a very good idea actually, however the people I have my accounts on are only my brother and girlfriend and neither would want it. The price is ridiculous unless you go halves/thirds/quarters/fifths [As I think 5 is the maximum number of playstations you can have your account on?]
gazo69
No mention of how ridiculous the price is?
cc_star
Highlights the dangers for consumers of a download-only future.
Even GAME charge £39.99 for this and they’re renowned for being amongst the dearest in comparison to online prices.
For something which has no resale value, ridiculous price is ridiculous.
ps. It was £8.95 brand new on the 360 over the weekend
jonny_bolton
It’s was a fiver brand new on the 360 just over two weeks ago at GAME.
Darth Newdar
Amazon have got it for £38.79.
Winkle
It would be great if Steam in all its fullness arrived on the PS3 and sold downloadable games also. Maybe this would creat some much needed competion between PSN and Valves prices on downloadedable content. So ‘we’ the consumer wins.
But alas I cant see it happening :(
gaffers101
Glad I got if from the Hut using a voucher, saved myself a few quid :)
shields_t
Shocker, physical media is yet again the more sensible option. Can’t say the price comes as much of a surprise given the recent Prototype debacle.
Darth Newdar
Physical media will continue to dominate downloads with that sort of pricing…
dazluss
35 quid in Morrisons (or it was at the weekend), really wanted to get the digital version of this but no thanks at 48 quid.
NotoriousGTT
Until there is more than one store to download from there will always be high prices. Sony are not going to let any third party (including Valve) sell games for download on the Playstation as the way things are they (or their publishing partners, I’m looking at you here EA) can name their price and we have no option but to pay it.
matthangzhou
What a rip off! That is all there is to say really. What sort of mugs do they take the the general public for.