Astro Bot Price Has Been Revealed Via Retailer

A Japanese online retailer and the PlayStation Store have revealed the retail price of Astro Bot and Concord, respectively.

[NecrumOddBoy]

$60 is a nice price.

[just_looken]

this is new modern sony were all they want is the $ from there loyal blind fans.

$60 for a game that no doubt will have mini games and not live up to that price tag. It should have been $20-30.

[Hypertension140]

You sure not taking about Nintendo or Microsoft here?

Have you played Astrobot rescue mission? It is one of the very best platformers of last generation, being a VR game, many people missed out on it. A large scale game of that caliber is well worth the price.

I haven't seen many games published by Sony that isn't worth the price, they are one of the few publishers left that actually gives you a complete game day one.

[just_looken]

@hyper

This is ps5 sony not ps4 sony era

ps5 sony era gave us a good rachet game and astro sure but also.......................... .........................

can not say gran turismo sense ps3 version gt5 is better all around

I am talking about new games only made for ps5 was created with the new sony leadership your gow was a ps4 game. Demon souls was one of many port jobs

https://www.psu.com/news/al...

spiderman 2 but the first one version 1.0 on ps4 was better lets face it before they changed peter's face

I would like to see old sony back but this gen i have not seen anything i want to run and play from anyone heck if you want to toss the other 2 well Nintendo wins sense they have way more exclusive games way more sales way more profit.

Xbox has the waist of space series console if you own a pc there is 0 reason to own a series x/s if you got a ps5 same deal.

[garos82]

i dont know if it is worth the asking price yet and neither do you. ill let you know after release

[gerbintosh]

@Just_looken

Mario Party is looking at you

[MetroidFREAK21]

Umm

[repsahj]

cheapo. XD

[ChasterMies]

The $/hour argument doesn’t work anymore. When you have a backlog you’ll never finish, quality becomes more worth more than quantity.

[Pepsi_Man3000]

I wonder how people make such stupid assumptions like this

[kayoss]

Dont see you complaining about Nintendo and how most of their $50 + even after 10 years. Maybe you just came out from under a rock, but everything cost more now. Videos games been $60 for almost 3 generations and dont expect it to rise in price after 20 years?

[andy85]

Looks like it lives up to it well enough given the overwhelming reaction to the trailer? 50+ different worlds doesn't seem like it's small either

[Crows90]

I only see one blind guy because to suggest anything less than $40 is really special.

The free game they released at launch could have been $20

[I_am_Batman]

$60 is fine. $50 would've probably been better, but $20-30 is absurd. Astro's Playroom could've easily been a $20-30 game and this one will be much bigger and presumably better.

[derek]

@just_looken real fans support the hobby they partake in. Point me to all the altruistic companies not trying to make a profit unlike evil Sony, lol. If it upsets you to pay others for their work then don't buy the game. You are free to vote with your wallet.

[HansyJ]

Pure ignorance

[TheKingKratos]

"$60 for a game that no doubt will have mini games and not live up to that price tag. It should have been $20-30."

Oh you played the game already??

[darthv72]

This should be $40 like Concord.

[Jin_Sakai]

A quality fun looking platfromer for $60. I’d take that any day over all this live service garbage that’s flooding the market.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

60 is fair price

[CobraKai]

I woulda paid $60 for the first one, definitely buying the second.

[neomahi]

Better be a physical release, in fact, both games on one disc. Sure, Astrobot was free for purchasing a PS5 but, it's a digital copy attached to license agreement which means when services shut down, which we're about to see the Xbox 360 Store close entirely and we know how this game goes, so does everything with it. So, physical release ensures the immortality of games existence. And if you don't want to bother with retailers, fine, sell it on PlayStation.com or through Amazon. ITS A DISC not a SNES or N64 cartridge that were expensive. It's a $.10 disc

[Eonjay]

Astro Bot was already confirmed for physical release.

[Profchaos]

It's not just ebiug6ti be physically pressed on a disc these days though you need to make sure the entire game is there so many physical games are just used as a license these days

[CobraKai]

Physical Halo Infinite still pisses me off.

[purple101]

disk actually costs $1-2, last time I was in college, many years ago we did a study, yes the disk is cheap, but the case, insert, (they're gone now, but used to have mutuals) and the distribution / delivery costs made each disk $2

crazy when physical can still be sold, the shop takes between 20-30% and they're still cheaper than digital sometimes unless there's a massive sale on,

beyond belief for me, why is the digital stores still so expensive when they have none of the above costs.

[sweatyrich]

Which is why I rarely buy digital

[VariantAEC]

Digital stores are not free to run. There are the data centers storage sometimes rented out from other providers or the facility exists in rented out space or costs a ton to run when the provider is the store owner not just that but taxes on everything including electricity usage. Digital is convenient, but it costs a lot to run and maintain, so prices stay the same.

[LoveSpuds]

Having the last Astrobot on the disc too would be such a great addition, as a physical collector I would be so pleased with this move.

[Eonjay]

$40 for Concord seems fair as well.

[lellkay]

It really doesn't

[Eonjay]

Well considering they were releasing all $70 games up until Helldivers, I personally think this is a smart approach for live service because it gives them more flexibility with monetization as opposed to F2P games.

[CrimsonWing69]

@Eonjay

Flexibility with monetization… sounds real great…

[purple101]

$70 for Redfall,

never forget

[lellkay]

Day 1

[Profchaos]

I never pre order anymore but I'm so confident this will deliver I'll be pre ordering

[VincentVanBro]

That gets me excited honestly, I’m sure it will be worth the $$$

[CrimsonWing69]

Not a platformer fan, but I’ll probably pick this up if it drops to $20

[InUrFoxHole]

Oh boy. Can't wait to read all the this is a good price comments or this is a fair price for quality. No wonder Sony didn't even try with their last showing. Their expecting to coast on good will.

[VersusDMC]

Platformers and side scrollers release at 60 on Switch all the time without question. Psychonauts 2 came out at 60.

But with Sony the 60 dollars for a platformer is a issue?

[Good-Smurf]

There are folks who demanded Sony to do these types of games, but when Sony did just that they simply don't buy the very game, they demanded.
You can't just expect them to do these games when you don't follow through with your demand then wondering why they don't make them anymore.

[gold_drake]

more than fair, since we know how jam-packed the game is gonna be

[DivineHand125]

I would have preferred $50 but it is what it is. Part of the reason Helldivers 2 and Palword did so well is because they were $40 and $30 respectively.

[BillyCrystals]

Even if it was $70 why do some people feel the need to whine about the price? Weren't N64 games like $70-80? Wasn't Earthbound on SNES like $100? NES games were $50 and most of them were awful and very short. And nowadays there are constant game sales. I have too many games in my backlog because they were deeply discounted. Hogwarts Legacy was $30 just a year after it came out and I haven't even touched it yet. If anything, video games as a hobby has helped me save money because it satiates my need to go out and spend on girls and mind altering substances.

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea but then you had the same games on PS1 for $39 to $49 and at some point N64 came down to $49. They said cartridges were expensive to produce… but I find it sus that when it wasn’t selling as much as PS1 and the same games they dropped it to be competitive.

In this instance I highly doubt games will drop down by $30 and I think people have the right to voice their dismay at the pricing of games. You see Concord at $40 or like Switch games cherry picking what to make $70, then the whole next-gen price hike where many publishers weren’t on board with kn the beginning leading me to also feel like things were sus with the pricing. Now, we see why they’re talking about raising stuff to $100.

People need to vent about it and I totally get it. It’s not like they can’t just wait for a sale. That’s what I’m doing.

[Psychonaut85]

Cool. Will definitely be getting AstroBot. Probably not Concord. $40 isn’t bad though, assuming they don’t aggressively monetize it as well on the backend.

[Pepsi_Man3000]

Glad it isnt 70. I'd still buy it for that much but it'd turn off a good amount of people Im sure. Cant wait for this

[jlove4life]

If you feel first one was worth $30 look at it this way you paying 30 for both since 1st was free remember support the developers especially when making good and great games

[Skuletor]

Lol, what?

[RedDevils]

That's stupid.

[Walalon]

$40 for Concord.. another nail in the coffin 🤷

[mastershredder]

Lemmings think 60 bucks for this is a good price? yep figures. Hey geniuses, this first party branded mascot game is one sony can loose money on and claim it. It’s total pack-in, essential, ps+ freebee material. But you go ahead and drop that cash on day one smart guy/gal.

[P_Bomb]

“It’s total pack-in, essential, ps+ freebee material”

Nothing about this screams free-to-play PS+. Trailer and press release look normal.

[RhinoGamer88]

Will it be in 8k? :-)

[QuePasa87]

gtfo concord