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badgenome on 02 September 2008
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mysticD said:
desmondau said:
I honestly think Arcade games are priced a bit too high. For some old retro ports, they still charge you 400mp. I agree some of the new games are pretty good and could be and should be priced between 800mp and 1200mp. But most of them are small in size, short in play time, old in game design and easier to make when compared to the physical counterparts. I think MS should think of a more aggressive pricing when its main competitor PS3 is taking a healthy step on PSN to introduce its old days PS games and newly developed games. The prices on PSN, in my opinion, are much more reasonable considering the cost of distributing and developing; and more practical considering downloading the game is a cost on the part of the console owner.

So PSN which have very little selection price at the same as MS (you can say they copy XBLA for PSN store, but you know Microsoft is not innovate and they just copy everybody unlike Sony) is better while Microsoft XBLA have bigger selection is not aggressive and price too high. 400 MP is about $5.00. If you feel $5.00 is too expensive for old port (which of course not available on PSN) then I don't know what you think it should be? $1.00 ? free? it's a cheap port but someone still have to do the work.

And what on PSN is more innovate than XBLA? I try Pixle Junk, it was good but nothing ground breaking. New Ratchet is just another level of Ratchet & Clunk with some new items, couple hours long and cost $15.00 yet that is reasonable? I don't mind doing DLC but for full size retail game like Warhawk , GT5P or even Siren I would rather own a physical disc and those cost just the same as retail disc? So that is a good pricing to you? No disc so you can't resell, loan to friend , tie to your PS3 account but Sony charge the same price but to Sony Fanboys that's suddenly better. So what on PSN that is price so much better than XBLA?

 

EA Sports Live Draft Tracker! It's 400 MS points on XBLA vs. $0.99 on PSN!

Other than that, I haven't a clue. Multiplatform games so far have the same price point on either. Although if you buy 100 of those on PSN, you'll save $1, since it's $10 vs. $9.99! Woot!