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Atari to Start Charging more for X360 Games

Gameplayer today received a release schedule form local distributor Eidos showing off the price and date for the next game in the popular Conflict series, Denied Ops. Interestingly the game will be more expensive on Xbox 360... is this the start of a new trend?

"This is the first time we can recall a multi-format game selling for a greater price on the Xbox 360 than the PS3... or vice versa. Why do Xbox 360 owners have to pay more? It's not like they get their online for free, either."

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jack who5994d ago

good luck Atari good luck.

BrianC62345993d ago

What I find interesting about that story is the writer asks if this is some new Sony strategy to get more sales. Hello, it's an Atari game. Sony and Microsoft don't set the prices. I doubt that it's some Sony idea. Microsoft could always drop their license fee if that was it.

ktchong5994d ago

Atari is getting really desperate.

BubblesDAVERAGE5994d ago (Edited 5993d ago )

100 dollars is that the us...because thats unheard of for us

BrianC62345993d ago (Edited 5993d ago )

That site is Australian. The au in the name tells you that. So it's Australian dollars. Using a currency converter on the Web it shows $100 Australian is around $88 US. That seems pretty high if the game will cost $88 in the US. I don't know much about the game. Does it have some kind of special controller or something? No way I'd pay that kind of money for an Atari game.

I just noticed Lair cost $99.95 Australian so I guess they just pay a lot more than we do in the U.S. This is why I laugh when U.S. gamers complain about high prices. Compared to gamers in other countries we don't really pay that much.

ps1h1ch5993d ago

In europe games cost 60-70€

which is almost 90-105$

I hate when we get ripped-off like that.

Close_Second5993d ago

...send their developers onto the streets to start busking or begging. They might have more success...

TrevorPhillips5993d ago

atari is a piece of 5HIT dont worry about them its pretty easy they charge more for games we buy none of there games eat that 5HITARI

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Shut The F UP! Gratuitous Swearing In Games Growing

OXCGN:

"I swear (figuratively), playing all the gung-ho "I'm cool 'cause I've got tons of bad language" games these days can feel like I'm on Xbox Live with drunken foul-mouthed sods from the Country That Shall Remain Nameless.

Case in point: the recent Chronicles of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena. The enemy just don't shut the f*** up!"

XboxOZ3605478d ago

Well what can I say . . Actually, I'm sick to death of it all, not only in games, but also on XboxLIVE and other mediums. Sure, swearing has been around since gods-knows-when. However, it's not been such a huge thing as it is now, where children grow up thinking it's a normal part of everyday language, which it IS NOT.

If developers make great games, they do not have to rely on the swearing that seems to fill them these days. The gameplay and mechanics should make the game shine.

gaminoz5478d ago

I didn't realise Gears of War 2 you can choose to filter out bad language. Maybe if you are going to make it a feature of your game that might be a good option?

allegionary5478d ago

I didn't either. That's a good idea, though I don't remember too much over the top swearing there? There probaby wa...i was just too involved to notice

Uncle Rico5478d ago

Internet + Young Kids = Ability to do anything they want that they would most likely not do in real life

ZuperAmazingCooKie5478d ago

I thought the dialogues for Killzone and Gears of war sucked because there was no quality, only quantity and that quantity included too much meaningless swearing.

lsujester5478d ago

To me it depends on context. If you're portraying a person that would tend to curse more, then it can fit. But cursing just for the sake of cursing just shows ignorance.

For example, you would sort of expect this guy (who I randomly picked through Google)
http://www.yvonnegraphy.com...

to curse more than this guy:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www....

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gaminoz5478d ago (Edited 5478d ago )

Yeah that movie Wanted was over the top and it sounded stupid there too. Yet it was funny in In Bruges... It has to be done with some context. Sure I know a lot of people actually DO talk like that, (like 50 Cent in the example) but all these scripted swear phrases in games just to sound like cool baddies do make a game seem a bit silly.

I think Riddick, Killzone 2, Conflict: Denied Ops, Kane & Lynch are good examples...

Immortal Kaim5478d ago

I agree, sometimes it can seem out of place (like your wanted reference), but other times it can add to the legitimacy of the dialogue. Look at GTA4 for example, the dialogue is so much more believable because of the occasional 'swear word'. It's all about balance.

allegionary5478d ago

Yeah that wanted movie was bad...so try hard.

GrathiusXR5478d ago

lol i still can't believe that a Wii game has gotten in the Gusiness Book of Records for most swearing in a video game who would of thought :P

gaminoz5478d ago

Which one was that? Was it that zombie on rails one?

onijutsu5478d ago

twas "house of the dead: overkill" if i am not mistakenz

Superfragilistic5478d ago

Man you should play MadWorld if you like constant inane swearing.

That thing delivers! lol

gaminoz5478d ago (Edited 5478d ago )

Zeitgeist no offence but...YOU HAVE TO PUT THE TITLE IN AS IT IS IN THE ACTUAL ARTICLE. Can't change it....read the rules. And who cares if XBox and GCN are dead...they have a channel for it and games back then had less swearing. Therefore relevant.

Please stop reporting just for the sake of it!

XboxOZ3605478d ago (Edited 5478d ago )

AHh, but you see, they get 10 brownie points in the N4g score for every report, so you could basically lodge reports all day and get several hundred points . . instant rise in ones points tally . . Which is another thing that needs looking at by N4g staff.

Oh, and you do realize, that the person that lodges a report can delete it, then make another covering BOTH items, rather than one report for each item . . but that would mean LESS POINTS you see . . get the picture now . .

This is a generalised thing on n4g, and ppl exploit it no end.

I'll now remove mine as it wasn't a report, but a comment . .

patterson5478d ago

Tired of the stupid talk, but hey, the developers are pandering to the lowest common denominator.

Ugly characters, doing ugly things, to other ugly characters, in an ugly world, while using ugly language. That $hit sells games!!!

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