KylieDog said:
Degausser said:
KylieDog said:
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. |
Except if you look in stores and online £40 is the selling price, so the RRP is likely higher than £40. Cheap pre-orders before official pricing released do not count, hence why all those stores have since increased the price. Not all games drop in price heavily either, UC3 still has not hit that price point, so unless the Vita bombs and stores need shift excess stock it is unlikely UC GA will price drop anytime soon.
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Golden Abyss is £35 from shopto right now and will be £35 in Morrisons on Vita launch day. You'd know it'll hit at least £25 within a month, but undoubtedly lower, if you follow hotukdeals.com.
Uncharted 3 hit £17.99 on play.com before Christmas too - but has gone back up to £24 for now.
I dunno if you're from the UK but EVERY game (Except COD and Nintendo games) tanks in price within a month. Skyrim was literally £22 2 weeks after launch, Saints Row 3 was £20 early December. No games actually launched in Janurary so there are no examples i can really point out here of relevance - but compairing US pricing to UK is stupid as the markets are very different, was my point.
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Yeah I use hotukdeals, but the problem with basing pricing on this is that not everyone uses the site and when there is a price crash on a game it is sometimes for a single retailer only and often only online and not in a store. Christmas offers and such that last 24-48 hours is not a games price tanking either. Neither of these is a nationwide lower price like what the Vita needs.
Not all games tank very low in price either, I picked up Batman AC before christmas for £18 when amazon reduced price for literally about 2 hours before hiking it up in the 30s again, it has never been below £25 since except with discount codes. Skyrim hasn't been as low as it was during the GAME/Gamestation short time deal and is still full price most places.
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But I think the inflated initial price model is exactly how the UK games industry works and pretty much why it works. If you don't consider it then you're missing the key point to why they can get away with charging more here then most places. It's pretty much designed to exploit money from the people who spend money without thinking and give savings to those who won't pay as mch - it's great. And with that in mind, the fact people like me will be able to get GA for £20 about a month after launch, means the pricing strategy is good.
I think the point is though, in the USA GA is $50 and a PS3 game is $60. In the UK GA is £45 RRP and will cost you about £35 on launch. A PS3 game is £50-£55 RRP and will cost you about £40 on launch - so there is no price hike anyway lol.
