[Zeromajor]

This is the second part of this thread: http://www.avforums.com/forums/ps3-p...te-thread.html

[catisfit]

The Japanese Store has been updated. Highlights (from memory):

• Yakuza 3 demo, along with two lengthy videos in the same category if you haven't seen them.
• Noby Noby Boy is up for Y800 (£5.94).
• WipEout HD costumes for LittleBigPlanet
• Fl0wer theme
• Something to do with Resident Evil 5 (a video, perhaps?) but I have no interest in that game at all so didn't take a look.
• Various other bits and pieces...

Enjoy

[Zeromajor]

Yakuza 3 demo whoo!

[chui]

Is H.A.W.X coming to the UK store today?

[Robothamster]

Originally Posted by chui

Is H.A.W.X coming to the UK store today?

Nope, delayed until the 26th of Feb.

[dub007]

Originally Posted by Robothamster

Nope, delayed until the 26th of Feb.

Good timing with killzone2

[Vausey]

Do we know what the store has yet? What about HK and USA???

[Tigerblade]

Originally Posted by catisfit

WipEout HD costumes for LittleBigPlanet

[catisfit]

Drivers (pilots?) - helmets and such, judging by the picture

[Zeromajor]

Originally Posted by catisfit

Drivers (pilots?) - helmets and such, judging by the picture

They're actually pretty swish, if a bit weird. Each one has a helmet and outfit which makes it look like your sackboy is sitting in a sled.

[Mickus]

Any UK store update yet?

[Robothamster]

I want Noby noby boy so hope it's up soon!

[Zeromajor]

Yeah come on scee, get your noby out!

[stusjm]

According to thesixthaxis

Yeah, we’re early, but then why not, eh? This is the PSN Update for Europe, should be going live any minute now, we reckon - note that there could be more to this, or even a few last minute changes, but this should be today’s update.

PS3 Games:
Noby Noby Boy [£3.19]
Street Fighter II HD [£11.99]

PS3 Game Add-ons:
Mirror’s Edge Pack [£7]
Skate 2 - Dyrdek’s Fantasy [£3.49]
Burnout Legendary Cars [£1.59 - £6.29]
Burnout Time Savers Pack (gives you all cars and bikes)
LBP WipEout Costume Pack [?]

Rockband Tracks:
Turbonegro: Wasted Again
White Zombie: More Human Than Human
White Zombie: Black Sunshine

PSP Games:
Stateshift
Spectral vs. Generation
International Athletics
World of Pool

Trailers:
Mini Ninja
Flower

[PygoShlee]

£11.99 for street fighter? OUCH!


Ash

[Fuzzmundo]

Originally Posted by Zeromajor

Yeah come on scee, get your noby out!

Oh BOY that was so so poor

[dub007]

American Update 19/02/09

Playable Content

* Noby Noby Boy ($4.99)
* Zuma ($9.99)
* Afro Samurai demo
* Zuma demo

Add-on Content

* LittleBigPlanet WipEout Mini-Pack ($2.99)
* High Velocity Bowling: Patches Pack Two (free)
* Street Fighter IV Brawler Costume Pack ($3.99)
* Skate 2 Dyrdek's Fantasy Plaza Pack ($4.99)
* NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM Pack 9 (free)
* Mirror's Edge Pure Time Trials Map Pack ($9.99)

Videos

* Killzone 2 first look
* MLB 09 The Show - Mets Stadium
* MLB 09 The Show - PS3 Trailer
* MLB 09 The Show - Road to The Show
* MLB 09 The Show - Yankees Stadium
* LUMINES Supernova Trailer
* FIFA 09 Ultimate Team Intro Video
* Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition Trailer
* Resident Evil 5 Trailer 2009
* Watchmen: The End is Nigh Video
* Mount Snow Freeskiing Thrills
* Mount Snow Recap
* Mt Snow Snowboarding Highlights
o PK Hunder and JF Houle
* PS Pro Moments – Mount Snow
o Scotty Lago
o SNB Slope SLOMO
o Style in SNB Pipe
* GameTrailersTV: PlayStation Network Announcement
* Frozen River Trailer
* Quarantine Trailer
* Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Trailer

Burnout Paradise DLC

* Burnout Paradise Time Savers Pack ($4.99)
* Carson GT Nighthawk ($1.99)
* Hunter Calvary Bootlegger ($1.99)
* Hunter Manhattan Spirit ($1.99)
* Jansen 88 Special ($1.99)
* Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars Collection ($7.99)

Rock Band DLC

* "Wasted Again" - Turbonegro ($1.99)
* "Black Sunshine" - White Zombie ($1.99)
* "More Human Than Human" - White Zombie ($1.99)

Guitar Hero World Tour DLC

Wings Track Pack ($5.49)

* "Jet" by Wings ($1.99)
* "Junior's Farm" by Wings ($1.99)
* "Hi, Hi, Hi" by Wings ($1.99)

Themes and Wallpapers

* Zuma Theme (free)
* Watchmen: The End if Nigh Wallpaper (x2)
* Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition Tsunami Tank Wallpaper
* Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition Apocalypse Tank Wallpaper
* Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition Cryocopter Wallpaper)


PSP Content

* Loco Roco 2 demo (free)
* Loco Roco 2 theme (free)
* Resistance Connect Educational Video

[fanpages]

FYI: No Gravity hits PSN next week worldwide
by Majed Athab { Feb 19th 2009 at 2:00PM }
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The space shooter No Gravity: The Plague of Mind is lining up its guns and aiming for a simultaneous worldwide release in North America, Europe and Asia next week. On Thursday, February 26, the downloadable PSP title will be available on the PlayStation Store for $9.99 (NA), £9.99 (UK) and €9.99 (Continental Europe).

No Gravity boasts 31 levels of "hazardous" combat, along with unlockable goodies, five playable characters and five different ships to pilot. So, who's suiting up and ready to blast some aliens?

[Update: added in some fresh new screen shots and a brand new trailer. Enjoy!]
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BFN,

fp.

[Jon Weaver]

Originally Posted by fanpages

$9.99 (NA), £9.99 (UK) and €9.99 (Continental Europe)..

If these prices are true, this is a discrace.. The exchange rates are bad.. But not THAT bad surely??

[catisfit]

Originally Posted by Jon Weaver

If these prices are true, this is a discrace.. The exchange rates are bad.. But not THAT bad surely??

Vote with your wallet. If nobody buys it they'll eventually lower the price in a promotion.

It seems to work both ways. I bought SSFIITHDR from the HK Store for under £6, it's £11.99 on our Store. Similarly I bought Noby Noby Boy for £3.19 yesterday from our Store when it's £6 on the Japanese Store

[Jon Weaver]

Originally Posted by catisfit

Vote with your wallet. If nobody buys it they'll eventually lower the price in a promotion.

It seems to work both ways. I bought SSFIITHDR from the HK Store for under £6, it's £11.99 on our Store. Similarly I bought Noby Noby Boy for £3.19 yesterday from our Store when it's £6 on the Japanese Store

And to be honest, its getting that way.. PSN games for < £5 can be a bit of a no-brainer.. But when they start costing almost £10 (and more), I can't see many people buying them.

At the end of the day, you can buy Little Big Planet for less than £15 these days... Unless a PSN game is 'retail quality' I question how many people are going to pay the sort of money they are asking!!

Personally, I think that all PSN games (unless they are also available as retail (i.e Warhawk, GT5P, Burnout) should be 'capped' to make the cheap/spontanious purchases!

Its basic economics really.. Since a PSN game has almost zero cost to Sony and/or the Developers, why charge £10 and sell 100 copies, when they can charge £1 and potentially sell 10000.. Whilst they are making less per individual sale, they can make may times more, because they are selling to more people...

They cheaper a game gets, the more people buy it and the more money they make.. If I were a PSN developer, I would much rather my game was sold cheaply to the masses, than expensivly to a few die hard fans!

Jon

[catisfit]

Originally Posted by Jon Weaver

Its basic economics really.. Since a PSN game has almost zero cost to Sony and/or the Developers, why charge £10 and sell 100 copies, when they can charge £1 and potentially sell 10000.. Whilst they are making less per individual sale, they can make may times more, because they are selling to more people...

PSN games actually do require significant budgets.

Besides, to use your example, I'm sure they'd rather sell 100 copies at £10, and then sell another 9,900 copies at £1 after reducing the price

[Jon Weaver]

Originally Posted by catisfit

PSN games actually do require significant budgets.

Besides, to use your example, I'm sure they'd rather sell 100 copies at £10, and then sell another 9,900 copies at £1 after reducing the price

I agree they do have budgets.. But once the title is finish, there are near zero costs to distribute.

This is why I am strugging to understand the current pricing concept.... Why sell a few at a high price, when you can sell loads if you charge less.

You are right about when you say that its even better to sell it high first and then reduce the price, but to my knowledge, there are NO examples of this so far.. Only last week I decided to buy Bowling and Poker.. Even though these are no longer popular and are over a year old, I still had to pay £4.99 and £7.99...

Sony really need to wake up.. If they started to reduce the prices of the older games, surely many people would still buy them?

[Zeromajor]

Originally Posted by Fuzzmundo

Oh BOY that was so so poor

[Vausey]

Any news on what the stores are getting this week?

Heard the US are getting a HAWX demo???

[fanpages]

Originally Posted by Vausey

Any news on what the stores are getting this week?

Heard the US are getting a HAWX demo???

Europe should be seeing this too

BFN,

fp.

[Tigerblade]

Originally Posted by Jon Weaver

At the end of the day, you can buy Little Big Planet for less than £15 these days... Unless a PSN game is 'retail quality' I question how many people are going to pay the sort of money they are asking!

Some would argue HD Remix is retail quality....even despite it's age is still one of the top 2d fighters and only bettered by it's newer brother in 4.

[Fifty]

From TheSixthAxis :

Speculative contents subject to change, as ever. Expect this update around 5pm today. Full confirmation when we get it as normal.

PS3 Demos:

H.A.W.X.

PS3 Add-ons:

Mercenaries Pack
Street Fighter 4 Brawler Pack

Guitar Hero Tracks:

“Get Out of Denver” by Bob Seger
“Her Strut” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
“Old Time Rock & Roll” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Bob Seger Track Pack

Rock Band Tracks:

“3 Dimes Down” by Drive-By Truckers
“Time Bomb (Live)” by Old 97’s
“Satellite Radio” by Steve Earle
“People Got a Lotta Nerve” by Neko Case
“Can’t Let Go” by Lucinda Williams
Lucky Denver Mint” by Jimmy Eat World
Futures” by Jimmy Eat World
“Sweetness” by Jimmy Eat World

SingStar Update:

tomic Kitten - “Eternal Flame”
The Blow Monkeys - “Digging Your Scene”
The Blow Monkeys - “It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way”
Börni - “Scream My Name”
The Divine Comedy - “Becoming More Like Alfie”
Dizzee Rascal feat Calvin Harris - “Dance Wiv Me”
Donots - “Saccharine Smile”
Donots - “Stop The Clocks”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - “Relax”
LFO - “Summergirls”
Mario Biondi - “This Is What You Are”
MGMT - “The Youth”
Paul Mccartney and Stevie Wonder - “Ebony and Ivory”
Roy Orbison - “Blue Bayou”
Suede - “Europe Is Our Playground”
Sunrise Ave - “Romeo”
Vanilla Ice - “Ice Ice Baby”

Videos:

Metal Gear Solid SCENE Trailer

Themes:

Loco Roco 2 MuiMui House Theme

[fanpages]

"PlayStation(r)Home" gets an update to version 1.11 today & the US Home environment is scheduled to receive the "Warhawk Command Center".


The SingStore updates are typically every 2 or 3 weeks anyway. It is a bit lame quoting them as part of the weekly update.

I guess nobody is trying too hard to impress today due to "Killzone 2" (all three of my pre-orders arrived before 12noon today!).

The only reason "Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X" is there is because it was put back from the week before last. Good job it was really.

I have the "Guitar Hero World Tour" title but I've never found anything worthy of my virtual wallet funds.

BFN,

fp.

[C-J]

Originally Posted by Fifty

From TheSixthAxis :

snip

H.A.W.X.


Hooray