| gebx said: How much do the LBP addons cost? |
Seasonal costumes are typically free, but only offered for a couple of weeks. Branded/licensed costumes are usually priced at $1.99 each, or 4 for $5.99 if they're done as a set, such as the Street Fighter pack. The "big" expansions, like the MGS level/content creation pack, are also generally priced at $5.99. Keep in mind, the MGS pack was actually two items, a $5.99 level pack AND a $5.99 costume pack. Cha Ching!
This will be a cash cow for Sony for several years. It's a license to print money when you think about it, since it can't take an artist or two more than a few days, at most, to model a costume, then push it out to the PSN, where if only one-quarter of LBP's buyers can be convinced to spend $1.99 on it, Sony makes a million dollars. It doesn't even require advertising ... just a well timed 'leak' to Kotaku.
The only downside, of course, is that Sony is generally incompetent when it comes to properly milking all the lifeblood out of a succesful franchise.
What LBP really lacks right now is physical, licensed merchandise. Where the hell are the sackboy plushies? Sony/Mm could name their price on cuddly sack dolls if they got them to market before Valentines Day.
You would never see Nintendo be this incompetent at hammering consumers over the head with their branded property.
