I was pleasantly surprised when it was announced that Mass Effect 2 PS3 would be launching simultaneously on the PSN and at retail.
A surprise of a different nature followed shortly after when the near £50 price tag was revealed. It seems that despite this, and the initial 24GB download (reduced to 12GB post-install) the PSN version did well. EA CEO, John Riccitiello, had the following to say:
“Sony had never done a day and day release. They were very cautious about their infrastructure so it was mostly a technology test. This was really more about proving it can be done than it was proving what the opportunity would be, so an unmarketed game one year after the original was done on the Xbox and the PC, we released the PS3 and managed to do very, very well with it.”
He then added that even though EA did “absolutely nothing” to market the PS3 version, the total sales on the PSN reached a double-digit percentage of the overall sales. Did any of you take the plunge?
Source: IGN
mcphatty
I paid £20.99 for a brand new copy last week, which was a steal. £47.99 is just daylight robbery. If you can’t compete, do something else.
breadcrumb
As a fair few have already mentioned, I’m guessing most of the sales were from outside the UK/US, namely mainland Europe where the price isn’t as extortionate. I picked it up off the PSN as it would have taken months for the game to come out here in China.
On a side note has anyone heard anything about the Arrival DLC?
gazzagb
This will probably lead to more over priced PSN releases. :\
Who actually bought it?!
The Lone Steven
Right, who brought the PSN version?
It was overpriced, even GAME didn’t charge that much for it.:O
I really hope we won’t end up seeing a lot of day one releases being overpriced.:(
Rad4Life
No way I was going to lose that much of my hard drive on a digital version. Can’t even trade it in when I’m done either. LOSE! When are companies gonna stop screwing digital consumers? It costs much less to offer a game as a file versus a physical copies. Until they pass those saving on to us, I will take the physical copy.