| Degausser said: It should be noted £40 is the RRP in the UK and that no game ever costs RRP. Golden Abyss was avaliable for pre-order at £25 a few weeks back and is £35 at the moment. Further, all games in the UK crash in price a lot faster then anywhere else, GA will be down to £17.99 in a month or so from one of the online retailers. I think Sony's strategy is fairly sound to be honest - I definitely struggled when I had a DS with the pricing as I just couldn't spend what most games cost. The challenge for them is making the pirces actually correct, a full Uncharted for £40 RRP (So as I said, around £30 - £35) at launch is just fine imo, it gets a bit worrying though if games like Dungeon Hunter start trying to charge that (Which they arn't atm). We'll see, I always really struggled with the pricing of DS games... they just never went cheap enough for me to bite. For some reason. |
That is very true, game prices here in the UK never cost full price of £40, I always tend to buy new games around release date for £30-35 tops online, the only exception to this is COD which tends to be anything in between £35-40 and doesn't drop for a fair few months. All other games go down in price by 25-50% by a month's time. Heck I just bought King of fighter 13 the other day for £9.99 BRAND NEW (from game online not an auction), and the game's been out for like 2 months.
Anyway as for handhelds go, I really think the sweet price is between £20-25, but if its absolutely huge £30, nothing beyond that. £30+ should be console game territory. I think one of the reasons the 3DS is doing so well is because the games are very well priced just like the hardware as most games are around £25 new on release. You need to sell value products for a decent price, and as far as I can tell Super Mario Bros and Mario Kart are all value products you can't find elsewhere for the asking price.
