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Will you be buying your games at £54 on release?

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(If the thread title is too rude, I'm happy to change it but I think it's close enough to the truth)

It seems here in the Uk, EA are the only ones to confirm game prices at the moment, whilst almost everyone have come out in the US and said their games will stay at $60, it seems EA wants to extend its policy of gouging UK folks from online to physical discs. EA have to told GAME their games will cost £54. That's £14 whole pounds more than what you'd normally get for your regular ps3 games.

Granted this is most likely a RRP (usually £45) I can't help but call unfair BS on this. The quote taken from an FAQ from GAME answering the question "How much will ps4 games cost?" They gave this answer

“At present, the only publisher to confirm costs of their next generation games are EA, attaching a price of £54.99. No other game prices have been confirmed. We will of course update our listings as and when this happens. And if the price changes before release day, you will always pay the lowest price.”

Though with all of this said. There is a chance that it's not only EA who will be doing this because when Sony was asked about prices, they were quick to say US will stay at $60 but failed to mention anywhere else. But as of now, only EA have said anything so...

Brace yourselves kiddies, this could get ugly. For the original story, go...

http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2013/07/09/ps4-uk-game-price-confirmed-at-54-99-by-ea-say-game/



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IF EA is anything to go by, psn and XBL will be more costly.



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crap, us Aussies love importing everything from the UK. its so much cheaper... as long as EA are the only ones, maybe then it wont be so bad



ouche.
there goes cheap importing from amazon.co.uk

I think the games from sony here will be €70 ... because the last 2 games they released, GoW:A and TLoU were 70 in retail.
EA's games on PSN.EU are still €70 and seem to drop like, never...



eletronic arts or evil asshoals... u decides



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DamnTastic said:
ouche.
there goes cheap importing from amazon.co.uk

I think the games from sony here will be €70 ... because the last 2 games they released, GoW:A and TLoU were 70 in retail.
EA's games on PSN.EU are still €70 and seem to drop like, never...

EA's games on the WiiU also are (were?) 70€, complete and utter madness.



badgenome said:

eletronic arts or evil asshoals... u decides

I've never heard of Electronic Arts, who are they?

I've only ever heard of the Evil Arseholes.



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Where will I import games from now?



bend over backwards huh?
right now you are paying £38 (uk amazon) for The Last of Us for example, which is 44€, while the game is still 59€ here in germany

publishers just might not be too pleased with the huge discount battle uk shops are having and hence are increasing the rrp to increase the mean value a game is sold for



Lafiel said:
bend over backwards huh?
right now you are paying £38 (uk amazon) for The Last of Us for example, which is 44€, while the game is still 59€ here in germany

publishers just might not be too pleased with the huge discount battle uk shops are having and hence are increasing the rrp to increase the mean value a game is sold for

Or it could be this is a sign of things to come for EU in general. I'd find out what the Euros price is looking to be if I were you.



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