Super Street Fighter 4, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record hit Origin

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 16 November, 2011

Capcom joins EA's digital distribution service.

Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record are both available on EA's digital distribution service Origin.

Street Fighter costs £25. Off the Record costs £20.

Their addition marks Japanese publisher Capcom's debut on EA's Origin. THQ recently made Saints Row: The Third available. Warner's Batman: Arkham City will also be sold on the service.

It's all part of EA's push to get third-party publishers to sell their games on Origin.

"Since launch, we've had overwhelming support from both publishers and developers across the gaming industry, recognising Origin as an opportunity to deliver more of their great content straight to consumers across the globe," EA's Origin VP David DeMartini said last month.

Origin currently offers over 100 EA PC titles and has racked up six million users since it launched earlier this year.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 6 months ago

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  • Ironic_War_Criminal #1 6 months ago

    Boo hoo Crapcom
    Boo hoo Origin sucks
    Boo hoo EA

    Covered all the bases, no one else needs to comment in this thread. Go home.

  • MadDave123 #2 6 months ago

    @Ironic_War_Criminal That got a genuine lol from me. :)

  • Vice.Destroyer #3 6 months ago

    @Ironic_War_Criminal Don't forget all those people that feel that games should be about £8.99 to stop tempting pirates from pirating.

  • IronCladChicken #4 6 months ago

    @Vice.Destroyer

    I remember those days - Budget games 1.99-2.99; Full price games 7.99-9.99.

    Being annoyed when the average cost of a full price game went up from 5.99 - 7.99. That was 2 quid more the bastards!

  • Drygore #5 6 months ago

    @IronCladChicken

    And with inflation it's about the same prices today. In fact, games were more expensive 20 years ago (mostly reffering to console games).

  • kitsuneyo #6 6 months ago

    @Drygore True that. Amiga games were £25, MD and SNES were between £40 and £50, with no eBay, no second hand sales and rarely any good discounts.

  • IronCladChicken #7 6 months ago

    @Drygore
    I'm pretty sure 7.99-49.99 is a little more than inflation :)

    I always put it down to early eighties computer games being developed by 1-2 people teams... Compared to the 20 minutes it can take some of todays games just to scroll through the credits.

    Though I remember when the NES & Master System were released in the late eighties, they were selling carts for £40 - NEOGEO games for what 80/100+? Which with inflation does mean we are getting pretty sweet prices today.

    Though, I don't think I ever payed anything close to £25 quid for an Amiga game. I think 10-15 max was the norm? Though I may be completely wrong - I'd need to check some old issues of Special Reserve.

    Having said that - games do reach a far, far larger audience than they ever did in the eighties/nineties - when Civ selling a million titles (over the course of several years) was a huge selling point.

    So, increased cost of games development vs increased market size? - I guess that means businesses will sell the game for as much as possible and customers will try to get the game as cheaply as possible?
    Edited by IronCladChicken at 16/11/11 @ 10:01

  • rogermellie #8 6 months ago

    @kitsuneyo

    And the risk was on the consumer as before the internet you'd be lucky to find a review let alone a demo for new games. I remember buying Bethesda's Terminator Rampage for £50+ and I wasn't impressed.

  • Rack #9 6 months ago

    If Capcom join something you know it's gonna be good for consumers.

  • Freek #10 6 months ago

    All of those games are also on Steam and probably on allot of other digital distribution services.
    This is a good thing, it gives you the choice to get the game where you want it. Compition is the only thing that keeps these guys honest, you do not want to end up with a situation where one service has a monopoly.

  • v.profane #11 6 months ago

    Both would need to be £10 cheaper for me to touch them.