Sony dropping prices of various PS3 and Vita games next week

Uncharted 3, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Twisted Metal, inFamous 2, and Resistance: Burning Skies are among some of the games receiving price drops next week.

[NovusTerminus]

Might pick up Sorcery... 14.99 is not a bad price.

[Nimblest-Assassin]

Anyone else wondering why these games are dropping to such low prices?

Is it to sell them and increase sales? Because all the uncharteds for 50 dollars is a steal

[Yodagamer]

It might be that, i saw that vita games have been lowered dramatically, which i can only assume is due to lackluster sales.

[Christopher]

Probably dropping for GamesCon. More people buying and talking about Sony games, more hype overall.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Idk but i'm just glad they got a price cut so now i can buy them.

[BlackSharinganX]

probably this is to attract more peeps on the coming holidays

[R_aVe_N]

It is mainly due to Collections coming out real soon. They have announced 3 and will be a few more to follow. They announced GOW Saga, Infamous Collection and Ratchet and Clank. I would bet there will be an Uncharted Collection, Resistance Collection, and Move Collection on the way as well.

[REALgamer]

@yodagamer - the vita prices actually aren't much different.

The prices range from $5-10 cheaper than their current PS Store RRPs.

Uncharted: $45 -> $40
Unit 13: $40 -> $30
ModNation: $27 -> $20

Not exactly "dramatic". Seems fairly normal being about 6 months after the release of most of them.

[zypher]

Jak and Daxter Collection for me.

[Cyb3r]

Will this price drop be US only?

[hardandsloppy]

I want to know if it's for Canada as well!!!

[eferreira]

I hope canada as well. We always get the shaft

[M83_]

@eferreira

Great! Another fucking bottom! :/

[PS3isGAY]

Why not just drop them this week? I have money this week.

[Neo Nugget]

$15 for Sorcery?

Didn't that *just* come out?

[ChunkyLover53]

Just came out, but sold like 14 copies. I actually bought a new copy on release. Short game, but for a Move only game its pretty fun.

[DarkTower805]

Lol 14 copies. Seriously though, aside from people that frequent gaming sites, who did Sony think would know about this game? Sony marketing team fail once more. At $15 I might pick it up and dust off my move.

[dcbronco]

Sony can't help the marketing right now. I'm not sure where people think they will; get the money to advertise every release. They just lost over 6 billion. And just lowered their profit projection for this year. The Vita was a big part of those profits and it hasn't sold like they expected.

But on topic this is a good move. Lowering the price on software makes the hardware more attractive. With the coming release of the PS3 re-make and the profit margins on Vita hardware it should increase their install base on both.

[MoonConquistador]

@dcbronco - actually they do have the money, they just choose to spend it on sponsorship of The Champions League, trying to still brand associate themselves with the major events. money that would be better spent advertising the PS3, Vita and all the exclusive games they have. X box ads are always more dynamic and show off their system better.

[Lvl_up_gamer]

@ moonconquistador

What you just said means that Sony doesn't have the money. Sony has a certain marketing budget for each department under Sony. Each department gets a certain % of the overall marketing budget Sony has. In many cases departments get a portion of their marketing and advertising budget reduced to assist other departments to help with a certain marketing campaign if it's needed. Therefore Sony doesn't have th money if money is taken out of 1 department to assist another department. Sony has to determine what marketing campaign get priority. If Sony had the money then they wouldn't need to choose where to spend their marketing budget, they would have the money for all departments not leaving any departments with no money for their campaigns.

MS is a a great example of almost an endless supply of marketing budget which is why we see big budget advertisements for halo titles, gears titles and forza titles and why MS is so well known for their mass marketing campaigns.

[Ben_Grimm]

Remember when the folks on N4G hyped up Sorcery and said this would be the Move killer game to have and it would sell more Move units?

This just goes to show that N4G does not equel the outside consumer and we should never take the opinions of a few people here as fact.

[dcbronco]

@MoonConquistador

Sony is probably contractually obligated to sponsorship deals. They might be stuck there but they can pick and choose when to do commercials. They did for Killzone 3 and it didn't payoff. TV advertising is really expensive. In DC a 30 second add in the middle of the night cost 10K on the local Fox station. Primetime is terrible. American Idol was charging $950,000 for a 30 second commercial and that was five or six years ago.

I'm sure the NFL games, which is more like the audience they want, is charging several hundred thousand per commercial. So when you're facing bankruptcy you don't spend hundreds of millions for TV ads that might not get seen because someone flipped to the other network during commercials. Holding onto that money will bring you closer to hitting your profit projections and not getting your stock downgraded again.

@Ben Grimm

Sony fans on N4G are a vocal minority. Unfortunately for them I think for too long Sony actually listened to people like them. But they know now that they can't. That's why they went from six major exclusives last year to a couple this year. They don't sell well enough to make the money back that was put into them too often.

[BigStef71]

Sweet they finally dropped the price of the Jak & Daxter collection to $20. I might pick up GOW origins collection for $20 since I already have 1&2 collection and GOW3. People will prolly just wait for the GOW collection with all the games.

[TheFallenAngel]

Dude God of War origins is awesome! Ghost of Sparta should of been a PS3 game instead of a psp game.

[BigStef71]

I agree. I loved both of them on psp and played them so much lol. I've heard the origins collection was a great upgrade so I can't wait!!!

[srcBFMVBMTH]

Agreed. I actually wouldn't mind them re-making the entire God of War series on PS5 or something, that series is just too epic.

[Breadcrab]

Uncharted 3 for $20? I'll definitely be picking that up soon. Now I'm starting to feel glad I held out. :)

[Pwnage18202]

im proabably going to buy UC3 i have the 2nd and i love it. I wanna play the third

[Phil32]

Getting Jak & Daxter Collection, inFamous 2, and GoW Origins (finally).

[jonnyp777]

i wonder if this includes the digital versions too. would suck after paying $36 for hot shots golf. way to reward early adopters sony. won't be doing that again.

[dcbronco]

Kaz is trying to fix the company. Can't blame them for doing this. I'm sure they hadn't planned for things to come to this.

[SJPFTW]

No excuse for NOT owning Uncharted 3 now lol. Especially with patch 1.13 should be one of the go to multiplayer games on the PS3

[turgore]

Twisted Metal – still a bit too high.
Infamous 2 – $19.99 - will pick it up.
Ratchet & Clank Future: All 4 One – not interested
Sorcery- MOVE Required – -not interested
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – HOT !
Jak and Daxter Collection – might pick it up
God of War: Origins Collection – might pick it up
Uncharted 1&2 Dual Pack – already own it
Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition – will def. pick it up.

[eferreira]

jax and daxter collection is def a must buy. I got it last month and loved it. Holds up well. God of war origins collection is pretty decent too

[Acquiesc3]

Those are pretty excellent price drops (and games).

[chrispen9]

I'll be getting Jak and Daxter and Uncharted 3!

[Pwnage18202]

I dont know why sony is doing this and i DONT CARE!!! UC3 WOO HOO

[Bowzabub]

Won't all of these games work on the Vita through remote play soon after the upcoming firmware? Good for people who have a Vita and PS3 and still need these games.
I'm all set.. I have all of these except Sorcery...now THAT would be a killer game if they could get Sorcery to work with touch controls on the Vita. I think that would be even better than the Move controller.

[Pwnage18202]

Sorcery does sound like it would be pretty cool using Vita touch controls but sadly i have no vita. All I need is UC3!!

[Infamous2]

Does anyone know's if this is appening in canada as well?

[UltraVegito]

wow price drop on all these games *-* dammit wallet don't fail me now!

[ProjectDeputy]

If uncharted 3 via ps store would be epic

[StayStatic]

More of a behaved cat person myself ...

[Laughing Buddha]

I love these sales and hate these sales!

My backlog keeps getting bigger & BIGGER!!!
I just picked up-

Gears of War 3 $15
Resistance 3 $10
InFamous 2 $10
Ratchet & Clank all 4 one $10

I couldn't help myself they were so cheap, so CHEAP!! Damn you CheapyD, damn you to heck!

peace
LB

[TheFallenAngel]

I just got Resistance 3 thanks to my gf. Play it! Its a good game!

[snowman2149]

A $99 PS3 bundled with the Uncharted trilogy..holy shit balls that would sell like free cake!!

[Danja]

If only I didn't already own most of these games

[Emilio_Estevez]

Nice, prolly pick up some the ones I've been waiting on now.

[Gamerita]

the title sucks,it should say in the "USA",you are only supposed to write it like this if it was a worldwide price drop. damn amatures

oh sorry i forgot USA is the world.

[r21]

ah so it is only for the US, i am disappointed :I

[TheLastGuardian]

I'm kicking myself now for buying a lot of these at full price. I just can't help myself, when I want a game, I want it ASAP. The only games here I don't have are:

ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Reality Fighter
Little Deviants
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
Resistance: Burning Skies
Unit 13
God of War: Origins Collection (own them on PSP)
Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition

I'd like to own all of these. I'll definitely be picking some of them up.

[Omeganex9999]

This move from Sony reminds me of Steam... hey, it's a good thing, if a game isn't selling well, drop the price. And, Jesu:, it's something that should happens all the time with digital download... go on this way Sony! :)

[Iveyboi]

If in Canada I would get Jax + Socery.

[Iveyboi]

I already have most of the other title (like 75%)

[Dojan123]

I suspect Uncharted 3 will be a PSN+ soon. They are setting up major micro-transactions and the new patch is a lot like TF2 by Valve.

[himdeel]

I expect just the MP part of U3 to be up on PSN soon much like they did with Killzone 3.

[Dojan123]

Good point. Did not think about that.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

Man I was hopeing uncharted 3 would get its game of the year edition soon but this deal seems to good to pass up.

[ginsunuva]

Wow I was waiting for a Golden Abyss discount forever, but gave up and bought it yesterday. Now they show this?

[Pwnage2u]

I was hoping to see TM for $25, that's the sweet point for me to buy it.

[nevin1]

Infamous 2 for me.

[crawling182]

Not sure if Burning Skies is worth it at any price point...

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

Birthday List to Sony

Infamous 2
Sorcery
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Jak and Daxter Collection –
Unit 13

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Picking up Resistance: Burning Skies.

Waiting for Ridge Racer to drop to $20.

[ame22]

Still no sign of Starhawk.

[2pacalypsenow]

Uncharted 3 $19.99 0_0

[RedSoakedSponge]

i was hoping Touch My Katamari would be on this list. anyone know how much its selling for atm?

[GhostHero333]

I dont want price drops I want more games for my Vita.

[CanadianTurtle]

Jak & Daxter collection is a must for 20 bucks.

[takohma]

Ok who is selling these games for these prices because I went to targetand checked online and the prices are still the same.