Isn’t it time for a price drop on PlayStation 4 launch titles

Darryl Linington from ITF Gaming writes: It has been a good a good 6 months since the launch of the PlayStation 4; however, the launch games are still sitting at a rather high price. This brings me to my question… Isn’t it time for a price drop Sony?

[theXtReMe1]

Ive seen all of the launch games selling from $20 on up at different retailers. Most of them are selling at $39.99 on a daily basis. Even the digital games have been lowered in price at times. I bought Tomb Raider and Thief from the PSN Store for $29.99 each. Other games Ive seen from $39-$49.

So, unless you've been living under a rock for a while. Almost all of the launch games have been lower than retail price on almost a daily basis at most websites. Especially Amazon.

[TomShoe]

Agreed. You shouldn't expect a whole lot of sales on digital. Retail is where the savings are at. I think Killzone, Knack, Ghosts, and ACIV have all been discounted by $20 at one point or another.

[thereapersson]

Ironic, since there isn't any packaging or shipment costs to add to the titles when digitally distributed, yet publishers want to charge full price anyway. I thought that was one of the benefits to DD, that software could be cheaper due to lower overhead costs?

Publishers being greedy and not wanting to change with the times. At least on Steam you get deep discounts on a daily basis. Consoles... not so much, though Sony's PS+ free game promotions are definitely worth mentioning.

[Tempest317]

@thereapersson

What about storage/bandwidth on their servers? The fact that it's available for you to download anytime, as many times as necessary? I'm not saying it justifies keeping the cost so high for so long, but over the course of the lifetime of the game, the maintenance cost of digital will far exceed the cost of any packaging/discs.

[AstroCyborg]

wellfare gamers at their best

[TitanUp]

hoping sony will start trying to compete with steam on the sales front.

[Corpser]

Why would they need to? Steam needs to compete with other PC digital retailers, Sony has a monopoly on their digital store

[Derekvinyard13]

ive seen killzone:sf for about $40. then again used on amazon sometimes goes for cheaper

[InTheZoneAC]

I think Darryl needs to direct this article and their older, non-launch games to Nintendo and their eShop prices for the Wii U and 3DS

[lostkey]

With there being a rather small selection of AAA games on next-gen so far, which is to be expected, they probably figure they can keep the prices high and people will still play them because what else are you going to do....except go buy the physical copy for a fraction of the price.

[Lonnie18]

I agree there is no real reason to drop prices with so many new adopters joining in every month.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

I agree digital games should be cheaper ! But brick and mortar stores do a lot to help promote tripleA titles. That is why they get discounted quicker than digital . My guess is that they sell a lot more physical copies than digital, so physical will get more price breaks. That is why i am wating till August to get my PS4 ! i figure launch games will be marked down 50% or more ! My friend who bought a PS4 in December (who works at GAMESTOP) has not even opened his yet ! He is on his PS3 every night playing PS3 games!

[tamarkovia1]

Digital should be cheaper Imo by at least $5 to $10 because you have no resale value, that of course is the consumers choice, but from what I understand this time around the companies want you to stream and download their content

[killzone619]

the exclusives on ps4 so far are a rental at best.

[Skate-AK]

Seen a ton of deals on Amazon. Just don't own a PS4 yet.

[KinjoTakemura]

Check Amazon. They definitely have the best prices on NEW PS4 games.