Games on Demand Pricing Still Sucks

drunk pandas - 45 days 18 hours ago

It was similar with Bioshock being $19.99 new at GameStop and $29.99 on Games on Demand.

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Mr Bun - 45 days 18 hours ago

You would think that MS would charge a lot less for these in order for people to buy up their larger HDDs

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Blaze929 - 45 days 18 hours ago

Once again, people dont understand that you cannot price digital games cheaper than retail. Why? You cannot upset retail. Retailers are like EA, its their way or the highway and they need retail just like the big 3 needs EA.

Games on Demand pricing doesnt "suck", its where it SHOULD be at. Both Call of Duty 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 are $29.99 MSRP at retail NEW. We're not talking about used sales becuase used sales only go to that retailer and no one else.

Although I agree, digital games should be cheaper than physical games becuase you eliminate all the supplies needed like the box, box art, manual, disc etc etc. BUT again, they CANT do that becuase if they do, everyone will just buy digital games and retail sales will be lower than ever. And like I said, they need the retail support.

Look at whats happening in some shops in Europe with the PSP Go, they totally refuse to sell the device becuase it'll cut into their market share and the chances of that customer never coming back to that store are risen greatly.

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AridSpider - 45 days 18 hours ago

Don't waste your time trying to explain to people who cant comprehend. Its meaningless on this website.

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Mr Bun - 45 days 18 hours ago

Ok, you don't have to sell them cheaper, but do they have to sell them more expensive?...Full games on the PSN are alwasy the same price as the hard copy found at retail.

CoD 3 is 19.99 at retail...brand new...not 29.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site...

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Redempteur - 45 days 17 hours ago

Sooo 30$ for a 3 years old game is the right price ?

Sorry but no .. The point of these sales is to get the people who didn't care about the game in the first place . And they should do it with the price ...
If they don't make a little effort on the price .. what's the point ?

So the ^pricing sucks..

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Tony P - 45 days 16 hours ago

So quick to blame MS. I was too.

But Sony can't get it right either. It is not as simple as you think it is for any of these companies. There were a few articles posted here for the Go's download pricing last week. Go read them. The prices are not better.

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MNicholas - 45 days 16 hours ago

instant gratification and each extra dollar more of the download's price goes 100% towards profit.

It sounds wrong but charging more for downloads actually make sense.

They probably realize that lowering the price of downloaded games by $5-10 will literally cut their profit/game in half. Unless doing cutting the download price by that amount more than doubles download sales it's better to keep the price high.

It can also drive sales of hard-drives on which they make massive profits.

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ThanatosDMC - 45 days 14 hours ago

The Go pricing are gonna go down apparently to "fit" with the retail counterparts. Though i would rather get them for less than in retail since there's no hardcopy involved.

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drunk pandas - 45 days 18 hours ago

Yeah, you'd think shaving a couple bucks off would encourage people to want to move to digital distribution. The PSPgo is a prime example. But in this case, for older games, it's just a case of someone wanting to rape your wallet.

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Mr Bun - 45 days 15 hours ago

I honestly clicked on the wrong one...Here is one from Futureshop (owned by Bestbuy in Canada)
http://www.futureshop.ca/ca...

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K1W1 - 45 days 14 hours ago

I'm 29.

Microsoft still has room to adjust the price of DL games. If they don't sell at their current price I'm sure they will change the price.

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Chad Warden Returns - 45 days 6 hours ago

As does M$

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jack who - 45 days 6 hours ago

sum of us gamers are just too dam fat too get off our asses and go to gamestop and pick them up for cheaper.../s

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