You don't follow the European PS stores sales, do you? It's just ridiculous how much we get screwed over. It's not just this deal. People are always complaining on the European PS blog.   

So paying £22.50 for a game instead of £35/£40 a game is Sony trying to rip people off?

I'm sure the prices will go back to what they were after the promo ends, not sure what the big deal is.

Plus the PSN store is litered with deals with offers like "12 deals of Christmas" knocking up to 60% off titles.

And to the guy saying "if Nintendo did it", grow up a little. Stuff like that is playground childness.

Come on! you can't be serious. 12 deals of Christmas is pathetic. It should be called 12 days that buying digital games are slightly more expensive than the physical copy.  You can easily find those games (The Order , Until Dawn etc) for less than £20. Sony is not trying to rip people off, they're ripping people off.  

This is what happens when a company needs money badly. I mean, Sony is already going bankrupt but they keep making them timed exclusive deals and then they have the audacity to have less 1st party games than thier competitors. Madness!

No doubt but that's always been the same with digital games on all console. Still doesn't take away the fact that Sony are offereing deals of up to 60% off the full price. There are some good deals on the store and it's a little extreme to say Sony are ripping people off.

I buy digital a lot and find some great deals, but if I see it cheaper on another store I will but it there. Because you find it cheaper somewhere else doesn't mean that every other store selling it for higher are ripping you off. You have the choice to pick where you buy and it's been like that forever.

I would like to see console offer Steam like deals (Btw steam doesn't always offer you the cheapest) but we probably will not see that until digital make up the majority of game sales.

I would have an issue if the prices were raised a lot to to make it look like a better deal than it is. But we are talking about £5 - £10 price rise to get an extra game. You are saving  £25-£35 on this deal. People are mentioning retail prices being cheaper but that's a different issue altogether.

This is one of those articles making a mountain out of mole hill to either paint a console in a bad light and/or get hits. Not trying to make out that Sony gets picked on, we see these type of articles all the time against all the consoles.

I see it happen to a lot of 360 games with BC on Xbone. 360 games are now more expensive to buy than PS3 games. Those are retailer prices though, not straight from M$. M$ digital gets price cuts, but never go up. Then weekly sales cut more on those price cuts.

The bolded is the thing to keep in mind here, and I've talked about it in a lot of threads before but the sales EU and US get on PSN are different, but one isn't better than the other, often the US store gets flash sales which are really nice, but the EU store gets a collection of different sales and anniversary things where prices drop to the same if not lower often than the US sales.

I'd say if you want to rate the sales then look at them, rather than going off the vocal ones being loud about it online... you can write whatever you want on the internet, doesn't mean it has basis in reality.

On closer inspection, this is a little shady by Sony. There are some strong titles on the and a few you might get a deal on or somewhere near physical disc prices but there's also a few in that list that is daylight robbery. I'm not sure if I have an issue with Sony raising the prices of these cheap (On Amazon) games or including them in the list. I wouldn't have a problem with them raising the prices for the promo if all the games were good but £22.50 (average price of game in 2 for 1 deal) for Lego the Hobbit? C'mon!

I compiled a list

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the prices for main digital PS4 games have stayed very high as far as i can tell,haven't seen this offer yet but the 12 deals of xmas have been too high for me,not one worth it yet and they use to do movie rentals for .99p in the old 12 deals of xmas this year its hard to see any discount

merry xmas sony baa humbug i say