U.S. PS3 Game Prices Staked At $59.99

Despite some confusion last week about pricing on PS3 titles, U.S. gamers (at least) will be able to buy titles for Sony's console at a manageable price. Gamespot reports that the official Sony site is listing PS3 games at about $60. This includes seven launch titles, including a first-party game. From the article: "Shoppers can now preorder Ubisoft's Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Activision's Tony Hawk Project 8, Call of Duty 3, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog and Full Auto 2: Battlelines, as well as Sony Online Entertainment's Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. The pricing of Untold Legends may reveal what future PS3 owners feared--that first-party games would retail for the same price as third-party games." Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs notes that 360 games are already dropping in price, and hopes Sony will follow suit next year.

$60 for the game...

[_xeno_]

...and then an additional $40 for the content [slashdot.org]? I'm underwhelmed.

Seriously, given that we know Sony intends to nickle-and-dime us for their online service, requiring downloaded content for their games, the fact that games are "only" $60 really doesn't matter to me.

Re:$60 for the game...

[UbuntuDupe]

Yeah, after all of Sony's reps talking about how "price doesn't matter, work a little harder, we're giving you better stuff", it's not clear what to make of the $60 price announcement. It could just be the old tactic of "We've got GREAT prices on keyboards, yeah, just $3 apiece. ... OH!!!!!!!! You needed the VOWEL keys to work too! Oh yeah, we can enable that for $47 apiece."

With Sony -- and they've already partly revealed some of this -- it'll be It could just be "We've got GREAT prices on games like Gran Turismo, yeah, just $60 apiece. ... OH!!!!!!!! You wanted to drive CARS in it too! Oh yeah, we can enable that for ...."

Loss Misunderstandings

[Nazmun]

It's only a loss during the launch phase. Sony has always made a slight profit from hardware sales from the psx to the ps2 after that point. They've stated this many many times but I guess the consoles sold at a loss mantra will stay forever (xbox never helped with this either--losing like a billion per year for the entire division since it's creation).

ouch

[Joe the Lesser]

It's so hard to buy games nowadays with prices like that, especially when you rarely tire of the old ones, and some can be acquired via friends and other non paying methods.

You really can't buy anything unless you know for sure it's worth it, or you have a good paying job.

Re:$60 for the game...

[Anonymous Coward]

Knock off the anti-Sony trolling. [slashdot.org] Yes, we know, you hate Sony. Good for you.

Please stop making up stuff about Sony and the PS3. Your hatred of Sony is fine, your continued lieing about the PS3 is getting old, boring, and stupid.

I get it. You hate Sony. You love the Wii. Anything Sony does must be evil in your little world.

The article says nothing about requiring micropayments for content. The GT story about having to pay for additional cars and tracks was talking about a demo for GT5. GT5 will have all the content when you buy it.

Stop the trolling.

that's a STUPID argument

[Travoltus]

First of all, if this micropayment system is allowed to take off, gamers will pay far more than the price of their console in micropayments as all game studios will harness this. You'll pay $60 for Final Fantasy XV, and then $1 for every level. It'll be a micropayment bloodbath. So no, this strategy is not affordable.

Then on top of this, when you re-sell the game, everyone has to buy the levels all over again since it is tied to your console. This is Sony with a sniper rifle zeroing in on the reseller market.

Moreover, why do I need to hand over my credit card and personal info and register my single player game to Sony, or anyone else? Sony wants everyone who buys a game to have to register with Sony and that's b.s.

This is one hard core PS3 fan boy who just suddenly decided not to buy a PS3. And I love the Playstation series.