Some of you have probably noticed the reports from the XBox Live Preview currently underway regarding the Games on Demand pricing. Different regions have been offered different titles at strangely varied price points, some close and some ridiculously distant from any retail comparison.
Unfortunately, if you happen to live in Australia or New Zealand, it looks like we’re on the way to being disappointed once again. Unfortunately, the removal of MS points as the benchmark and moving to local currency has removed any chance of consistent prices. Considering we are generally always limited when it comes to On Demand purchases from any console maker, this isn’t a surprise.
See why after the jump.
I’m currently lucky enough to be getting a sneak peak at the upcoming major update for the 360′s NGE. Aside from speed, marketplace and avatar updates, one of the most significant additions is the ability to purchase full retail games. Microsoft has recently pushed through the sub-update that allows the games to be sold and downloaded, and I have to say I have been shocked at what’s been on offer.
There are currently 5 games available during the current leg of this preview – Call of Duty 2, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Oblivion and Viva Pinata. The US gets Sonic The Hedgehog, Assassins Creed, Lego Star Wars and Need for Speed Carbon. Japan adds an additional Fight Night Round 3, Bullet Witch, IdolM@ster, Perfect Dark Zero, and Rainbow Six: Vegas. Since all of these titles are currently available and rated in the AU retail marketplace, I can only imagine that publishing issues are holding them back from online sale.
For the sake of regional comparison, I’ll keep it between the US and the AU/NZ markets, since the European regions are very numerous and, it has to be noted, have sub-regional splits for certain games as well.
3 of them are sitting at the reasonably RRP price of AU$49.95 – COD2, Bioshock and Oblivion. This is in comparison to the US$20 (Around AU$25) that they are priced for on the US marketplace. Strangely enough, NZ pays $20 more for COD2, at $69.95. Why? Heaven Knows. Viva Pinata sits a little closer to the norm at AU$29.95, which is almost a 1:1 split with the US pricing. While there is certainly a pretty high discrepancy, its nothing compared to the jaw dropping bombshell that is Mass Effect.
Mass Effect released in Australia on the 22nd of November, 2007. That’s almost 2 years ago. In the US, it is priced on the marketplace at a very respectable $20, close to the average online purchase value of $16. In Australia and New Zealand? $99.95. How much could you purchase it for the shop? You’d be hard pressed to pay more then around $40, even at EB Games who rarely price stock lower then the RRP.
That’s over double the cost. And while we’re at it, why are downloadable titles being priced significantly higher then their retail equivalents? Surely it wouldn’t be difficult to find the average retail sale, or even just discount the RRP since there are no middle-man costs (such as packaging, delivery, warehousing, staff and labor wages) to inflate pricing.
Mass Effect is one thing, but the other $49.95 games are all easily available at bargain bin prices. You’d be hard pressed to find Call of Duty 2 for sale at all, let alone at the $50 price point. For the sake of the article, I checked out three local discount retailers – JB Hifi, Big W and Kmart. Of those three, only JB Hifi had the title in stock, and sold it for AU$17 at the time of this article publishing.
Many have been saying that its highly possible that these prices are simply placeholders for when the update goes live to the masses. I don’t think so. The titles are available for purchase right now, for those in the preview, and its doubtful that MS would bother changing them without coming up against a major backlash from early adopters against their purchase.
It’s a shame that this is the case. I was actually in a position a few weeks ago where I would have purchased a downloadable copy of Mass Effect, after a heated discussion with a fellow editor regarding the combat system. This sort of impulse purchase fits in perfectly with an offering like this. But its unlikely that anyone with even a basic sense of retail pricing would even consider purchasing at prices like these.
Here’s hoping that Microsoft listens to the feedback and makes a greater effort to make these products competitive, rather then blaming the marketplace for not being “ready” for downloadable purchases. The success of Arcade is proven, now its time to start pushing some goodwill back into an already disappointed group of gamers.
My copy of Mass Effect cost me $25 from eBay. Good to see that MS is always prepared to gouge me in another way!
mass effect that much for AU and NZ! thats super bs
Considering the cost of high speed internet, and the tough monthly data caps we have here in NZ, no one in their right mind is also going to pay 99.95 for Mass Effect on top of that. I was hoping to pick up Mass Effect via this service, as I have only rented it once when it first came out… but now, I’ll be hitting up one of the local gaming retailers in the morning I guess!
Outside of the odd impulse buy, how do MS think these prices are competitive?
It is possible they are place holder prices as it is a preview, if not then I predict the sales figures for these titles in certain regions will be embarrassingly low.
I live in Canada and am currently in the preview, for Canadian gamers we seem to get shafted just as much but, not quite as bad as the Aussies. our games on demand pricing is set at $39 and with the Canadian dollar only being about $.08 less then the U.S. i find that this is ridiculously over priced considering mass effect used costs anywhere from $9.99 – $19.99 brand new its only $24.99. i just think that this is ridiculous and i think that if Microsoft doesn’t drop the prices no one will buy these titles online.
I don’t know much about the prices for most of those games, but I can tell you that I bought Mass Effect for $20 USD new. I will chuckle a bit if that game is released for direct download at anything more than that; probably less, unless it comes with a manual (I’m betting it won’t). That brings up another point; how much of the price you’re paying for the game is covering the cost for making the instruction manual? Will direct download games have their prices altered to reflect that?
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Your blog provided us beneficial information to work on.
You have done a extraordinary job!
Howdy! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering
which blog platform are you using for this website?
I’m getting fed up of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers
and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be great if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
Hello there! This post could not be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this write-up to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your site when you could be giving us something informative to read?
Today, I went to the beach with my children. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is totally off topic but I had to tell someone!
Yesterday, while I was at work, my sister stole my iphone and tested to see if it can survive a forty foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My iPad is now destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is totally off topic but I had to share it with someone!
I was curious if you ever considered changing the structure of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or 2 pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam feedback? If so how do you stop it, any plugin or anything you can suggest? I get so much lately it’s driving
me crazy so any support is very much appreciated.
This design is steller! You obviously know how to keep a reader amused.
Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost.
..HaHa!) Wonderful job. I really loved what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented
it. Too cool!
I’m truly enjoying the design and layout of your website. It’s a very easy on
the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often.
Did you hire out a designer to create your theme? Fantastic work!
Hello! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me.
Anyways, I’m definitely glad I found it and I’ll be bookmarking and checking back often!
Hey! Would you mind if I share your blog with my twitter group?
There’s a lot of people that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Cheers
Hi, I think your site might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your blog site in Chrome, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, awesome blog!
Sweet blog! I found it while browsing on Yahoo News. Do you have any suggestions on how to get listed in Yahoo News? I’ve been trying for a
while but I never seem to get there! Thank you
Hey there! This is kind of off topic but I need some help from an established
blog. Is it difficult to set up your own blog? I’m not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I’m thinking
about creating my own but I’m not sure where to begin. Do you have any tips or suggestions? With thanks
Greetings! Quick question that’s entirely off topic. Do you know how to make your site mobile
friendly? My web site looks weird when viewing from my iphone4.
I’m trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able to resolve this problem. If you have any suggestions, please share. Thank you!
I’m not that much of a online reader to be honest but your sites really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark
your website to come back later on. Many thanks
I love your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you make this website yourself or did you
hire someone to do it for you? Plz reply as I’m looking to design my own blog and would like to find out where u got this from. many thanks
Incredible! This blog looks just like my old one! It’s on a totally different subject
but it has pretty much the same page layout and design.
Wonderful choice of colors!
Hi just wanted to give you a brief heads up and let you know a few of the images aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why but I
think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two different internet browsers and both show the same results.
Hi there are using WordPress for your blog platform? I’m
new to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and set up my own. Do you need any coding expertise to make your own blog? Any help would be really appreciated!
Hi there this is kind of of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML. I’m starting a blog soon but
have no coding know-how so I wanted to get advice from someone
with experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hey there! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any problems with
hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing several weeks of
hard work due to no data backup. Do you have any solutions to protect against
hackers?
Hey there! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be ok. I’m definitely enjoying your
blog and look forward to new posts.
Hi there! Do you know if they make any plugins to safeguard against hackers?
I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard
on. Any tips?
Hello! Do you know if they make any plugins to
help with SEO? I’m trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very good success.
If you know of any please share. Appreciate it!
I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own blog and was curious what all is required to get set up? I’m assuming having a blog like yours would cost a pretty penny?
I’m not very internet smart so I’m not 100% sure. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Hmm is anyone else encountering problems with the pictures on this blog loading?
I’m trying to determine if its a problem on my end or if it’s the
blog. Any feed-back would be greatly appreciated.
I’m not sure why but this web site is loading very slow for me. Is anyone else having this issue or is it a issue on my end? I’ll check back
later and see if the problem still exists.
Hi there! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new iphone 4! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the fantastic work!
Wow that was strange. I just wrote an very long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t
appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say wonderful blog!
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