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MaxwellGT2000 on 31 January 2008

I see you're paying extra for that blur effect on PS3, haha.

At my store its the same price on both, but then again it's not the UK.



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Kyros on 31 January 2008

"the cost of developing for bluray and Sony's strategy of loosing money on hardware to make it back on sales of software/peripherals is the reason"

bullshit, according to Capcom the price for the stores is identical for PS3/360 games. Apparently the stores decided they can ask more money from PS3 owners.

They may rot in hell.



Kasz216 on 31 January 2008
halil23 said:
Kasz216 said:
The Fury said:
Looking around, in gaming £10 is a lot of difference for the same game especially when at some places 360 version is reduced to £30 and PS3 only to £40 ($18 difference).

Their business model must really make some crap up to think it works so they can charge that much difference.

Well lets see...

reportidly from what i've heard

Sony's liscensing fee is like 1 or 2 dollars more per game.

Blu-Ray discs cost a lot more then DVD9 to replicate.

DMC was originally made on a PC and then ported to 360 and PS3. 360 is much more like a standard PC then PS3. Therefore the porting to PS3 probably took more time and effort.

Additionally, the 360 is more familiar, meaning that even more costs were probably needed to make the PS3 port as good as it could be.

So i'd have to guess all four of those factors led to the PS3 port costing more then the 360 port and they decided to charge the PS3 the difference instead of splitting it across both consoles.

If you look at it from that model it seems to make perfect sense, no?


WOW!!! it sound like DMC4 is the only multiplatform game you know of, what I'm saying is how is all the other multiplatform games having to go though porting, disc cost differences, licensing fee etc and still have the same price!


Because other companies are smart enough to know they can't get away with that?

hunter_alien on 31 January 2008

Yeah , I read about it on another site to ... it isnt Capcoms fault , retailers priced it ...



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superchunk on 31 January 2008

yep read this too. PS3 version will be $10 more than 360 version.

I say Bluray FT$. Seriously, that is the only reason I can think it would cost more. I think the retailer price it is just crap they are throwing at the consumers to pass the blame.

EDIT: Originally I thought this was a global thing. Looks like just PAL versions. hmm. really don't know now.



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brute on 31 January 2008

well thats not right they should cost the same



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Kasz216 on 31 January 2008
hunter_alien said:
Yeah , I read about it on another site to ... it isnt Capcoms fault , retailers priced it ...

 I heard retailers price it... however Capcom suggested they price the PS3 version 10 dollars more.



trestres on 31 January 2008

Seems odd.



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The Fury on 31 January 2008
hunter_alien said:
Yeah , I read about it on another site to ... it isnt Capcoms fault , retailers priced it ...

All the retailers have a RRP as £49.99 for PS3 and £39.99 for 360 version. After that, they can price as they please but with so many independent retailers listing the RRP as the above. They are all usually told what the RRP is, after that they choose (aren't they?).

 



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Kasz216 on 31 January 2008
The Fury said:
hunter_alien said:
Yeah , I read about it on another site to ... it isnt Capcoms fault , retailers priced it ...

All the retailers have a RRP as £49.99 for PS3 and £39.99 for 360 version. After that, they can price as they please but with so many independent retailers listing the RRP as the above. They are all usually told what the RRP is, after that they choose (aren't they?).

 


Assuming an RRP is the same thing as a MSRP yes. (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Pirce.) I've heard Capcom is saying they don't force stores to charge more... but stores are saying the MSRP was 10 higher on the PS3... and stores usually follow MSRPs to the letter.

So in other words, it seems like Capcom may have suggested that stores charge more. The stores went along with it... and now that there is backlash they are saying "We didn't force them to do it!" (We just suggested it, but we won't mention that.)

Atleast that's how it works in the US... and i'd guess europe too.