UK/Europe PS3 Game Costs Revealed?

RUMOUR: Employees at three separate outlets of GAME, the largest videogame retailer in the UK are claiming they have received information regarding the pricing for PS3 games when the console launches next year.
The three stores allegedly told customers PS3 games are going to cost 115 Euros in Europe, 80 Pounds Sterling in the UK.
Sony reps were not avaliable for comment.

[drewdrakes]

haha, this is a joke right?

[RBlaze]

surely this is only a rumour... they cant release games for that much... can they?

[BIadestarX]

If this is true; Sony must hate europeans.

[zypher]

eh, i'll need something a bit more official than this to believe it. PS3 games are priced no higher than 360 games in both Japan and (presumably) the US. i can't see why they'd price them so much more in the UK and the rest of Europe.

[AP]

As it says, I'm going to call Sony's PR company and the head offices of GAME tomorrow morning.

[Daewoodrow]

prices aren't confirmed for the US yet. The only prices are estimates from retail outlets. I'm pretty sure they haven't been confirmed in Japan yet either.

[uxo22]

When I preordered my PS3 last week, I also preordered a game with it and the game costed me 59.99.

So gamestop at least knows what the U.S. price of game will be. At least for this one they do.

[AP]

Basically, this information was recieved from several people today, both on and offline. I decided to go and check it out at my local GAME store, and the manager gave me the responses listed in the article. He went along with the numbers.

Personally, I doubt it, but I figured I'd report it anyway.

[videl]

WHAT some ppl say does not interest us, it can be that they are big ms fanboys and invent something! if i tell you what some of ppl say about the xbox360 (games cost in germany 1000 euros), will you believe it ? of course not, because there are many ppl who talk sh!t all the time.

[AP]

That's my first thought on the entire subject, as well, but I simply couldn't ignore when I called three different stores (One in London, one in Birmingham and one in Manchester) and they ALL game me the same information that had been reported to me.

[kingboy]

115 what..haha take a better guess even if ps3 was the only console in the market it will never retail games for that price.70 65 60 40 are the prices.

[Antan]

top grade nonsense.............i have and never will trust dumb arse shop assistants!

[coolfool]

Well, I pray to the gaming god that that this isn't true, I also pray for the souls of sony if they release games at this price, because if they do then they will surely go to gaming hell for which there can be no return.

Thats almost $150 US dollars!!!

[BrotherSic]

I know this is only rumour but it is information gained through a channel which most gamers use to find out information about consoles. I have friends in the england who work at GameStation and their information is useually reliable, however in this case i think Game employees will be wrong.

I think the prices will be lower than this, surely they cant charge that much for them, can they?

[nuclearnipple]

I agree i wouldnt be able to get a game very often if the cost £80 i thought my 360 games were expensive but id sh*t if i had to pay more than 40-50

[Marty8370]

If this were true the import market would be huge.Seen as the PS3 games have no region codes.As games would be cheaper in the US or Jap markets.And we all know that Sony don't like importers.

[Daewoodrow]

£80? No, as much as i'd like a good laugh for today, Sony are not run by a bunch of retards (stop snickering guys, i'm serious). If they price games at £80, they will sell about three consoles.

[THAMMER1]

This has to be a rumor. SOny whould not double ding Europe.

[bloop]

Hehehehe, 115 euro a game!!! Riiiiiight.
"Thats some damn fine police work Harisson"
Besides, why would Sony do this to themselves when people could go out and buy the same game for the 360 at nearly 60 euro less?? Reeediculous to even believe that.

[specialguest]

wow, if this is true, then that's horrifying. if the average PS3 title cost 60USD, convert that into GBP and it should be about 32GBP. according to the article, it states that UK will pay 80GBP, that's 149.63USD!! outrages!

[Gamer13]

Because i buy my games online in the uk and i pay £39.99 for every single game - even GOW Halo 3 IS GOING FOR 39.99 which you can pre order.

If this is true i won,t buy too many ps3 games.

[THE TRUTH]

This news should have never been Aproved in the first place! I'm calling BS on this "so called" newstory!! Quit wasting our time with noncedible hear-say

[BlackCountryBob]

I guess its possible that the games could cost around that price! I remember hearing that they expected first party games to be $70 in the US and they are keen on 1:1 conversion for the UK price! Its not impossible, people have paid this much before, when Nintendo used cartridges it was common for some games to cost close to £100 like Turok did!

[ApocalypseShadow]

unless it comes from SONY,MICROSOFT and NINTENDO.speculation leads to hersey,gossip,rumor and lies.i'll wait for REAL conformation from the companies themselves.haven't we been over this already?some games will be more than normal.some will be less than normal.no one is that stupid to think it won't be this way when all of us have been playing games for years.

[TheMART]

And what did Sony say some time ago? They expected it to be higher then the old prices, which could be up to 69, 79, 89, up to 99 Euro/dollar although they didn't expect the last one to be leading/general price.

If they state that I guess they won't all be based on 60 or 70 dollars/euros

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

That's one of the funniest MS fanboy rumours I ever heard. Soon it will join the thousand others and bite the dust.

[NextGen24Gamer]

The much higher cost of developement coupled with a much smaller fan base. But I figured the games would be realistically between 70 and 90 dollars. If they sell games at 60 dollars with such a small fan base and 1/3rd higher costs of developement....that would hurt developers in a big way. And it just makes the 360 that much more desirable for devs. Cheaper, easier to dev for, faster dev times, and much bigger fan base. Thats incredible profit margins...WOW. Thanks Microsoft.

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on play.com games are priced at £49.99

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

You got something wrong here. MS doesn't have the bigger fanbase, they only have the bigger installed base. 360 is selling like $hit in Europe. They are already coupling it here with 3 games for 429€ LOL...WOW thanks MS for ripping poor fanboys off with your $99 20GB HDD. WOW thanks MS for ripping poor fanboys off with $99 Wi-Fi. WOW thanks MS for ripping poor fanboys off with Live. WOW thanks MS for ripping poor fanboys off with HD-DVD without HDMI. WOW thanks MS for ripping poor noobs and kids off with marketplace. WOW thanks MS for killing Xbox so fast. Hehe

[satanslilh3lp3r]

i dont think MS is ripping anyone off with Live or the marketplace, but the hard drive, WiFi, and HD-DVD complaints I do agree with. These things are way too expensive.

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

" Unlike Nintendo and Microsoft's offerings, Sony doesn't hide the price of items behind an arbitrary "points" scheme - instead, everything simply lists a price in your local currency, so European types will see a Euro price, British people will see prices in Pounds Sterling, and so on."
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Poor noobs and kids get ripped off WOW thanks MS

[NextGen24Gamer]

for 199 with a King Kong and a remote is an unbelievable bargain. As far as the hard drive...99 for a detatchable 20 gig hard drive simular to a lab top hard drive is simular in pricing. the price will drop...their will be the 100 gig coming soon for under 120. And you don't have to rip apart your video game console to hook it up. Snap off...snap on...amazing. And the first party wi fi adapter isn't neccessary for "MOST" gamers and you don't have to buy the first party version. Any wi fi adaper can be used from best buy for much cheaper. So its wierd that the only people that complain about the amazing accessories for the 360 are the sony fanboys. ha ha ha ha...isn't that funny. All of us 360 gamers are thankful and appreciative to MS for the fabulous options and unbelievable system that is constantly evolving for 200 less than the competition. I know why the sony fan boys are pouty about it. Jealousy. Thanks Microsoft.

And the 360s fan base is much bigger than the ps3's fan base. And did yall read about 10,000 pre orders of the blu dragon 360 bundle sold out in japan in a whopping 5 minutes. Did you also read that in Japan they say that the wii will outsell the ps3 through the end of 2007 and the 360 will be way ahead in that same time frame selling 18 million. I actually believe it will be more towards 20 million by the end of 2007. But 18 million is fair. Right now there are 4 million gamers connected to xbox live on the 360. If half of 360 owners have live...we can assume that there are 7 to 8 million 360's sold to date. But no one knows. Many assume and project. But we won't know till MS announces their financial report. But we do know that at TGS they confirmed that they are on track to sell 10 million 360's by the end of 2006. WOW. They figure 250 k will have been sold by the end of 2006 in Japan. I actually think blue dragon will sell much more...but 250k is a low ball figure... and over 9 million between the USA, Europe, and the rest of the world. WOW. Some people say...well, the original xbox sold more in the usa in the same time period as the 360. Well, true...BUT....ms focused on the usa market last gen...this gen they are focused on the whole world. The take over has begun. No console has ever sold 5 million as fast as MS did. And the fact that it was world wide is even a bigger feat as Sony is just now realizing. thanks MS.

[ChickeyCantor]

i see allot of "ha ha" but i know you ppl are snapping from the inside.....you ppl know that if this is true (for the EU'rs that is) you all go suicidle.......or just go plain fanboy: no its not expensive =D they work longer on the games so they deserve the 115 euro's.