Certain Xbox 360 Classics drop to £15

By Robert Purchese Published 9 October, 2009

Double Agent, GRAW 2, Rainbow Six, more.

Microsoft has cut five pounds from the asking price of some Xbox 360 games in the budget Classics range.

That means "a selection" of titles will now be £14.99. First for the snip are Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.

The announcement coincides with the addition of Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and BioShock to the Classics range. They'll be the usual £20, presumably.

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Comments (41) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • muscleblade #1 2 years ago

    I think they need to drop the prices even more to compete with the retail prices for these old relics.

  • Hunam #2 2 years ago

    I agree. My thoughts are generally around £11.99 as the magic price or something. It's enough for them and isn't too crazy compared to retail.

  • Mar27w #3 2 years ago

    drop them to £9.99 each and maybe people would start buying them you corporate money grabbing tossers

  • metallicorphan #4 2 years ago

    they need to drop these prices in the Games on Demand service as well then(actually they needed to drop the prices in GoD anyway)

  • Xerx3s #5 2 years ago

    "To be quite fair, if Classics range games were £10, you'd all be crying out for them to drop to £5. "

    Only if they where unrealistically priced like they are now. MS asks 30 euro for it's GOD, you get less than what you pay for in the store and those discounted games only cost a fraction of what MS wants.

  • Whizzo #6 2 years ago

    Is rainbow 2 worth getting?

    Now only 15 quid for a run button rather than the 40 on release!

    It's worth buying if you enjoyed MP but the single player campaign is bloody awful. The final section of which is so laughably bad that me and my co-op companion were in stitches at how shockingly awful it was, worse than most Steven Seagal movies!
    Edited by 1 at 10/10/09 @ 18:46

  • Lave_from_PA #7 2 years ago

    @beemoh yes they would, because a copy that you own on disk, can be sold, and lent and given away. You can take it around your friends to play and take it from machine to machine easy peasy.

    That makes it worth *more* than a digital copy.

  • sarcasmoidosis #8 2 years ago

    @reask: Not really. It's an average SP Campaign. If you grab a buddy and coop your way on the hardest difficulty, it's a little above average, but nothing more.

  • Chazmeister #9 2 years ago

    All games which have been available for about £10 second hand for a good while now anyway, so no big deal.

  • Shane86 #10 2 years ago

    still €30 in Ireland, scandalous

  • Pirotic #11 2 years ago

    I'm glad they are £14.99, I seem to have this mental habit of thinking any game which is £9.99 is a "can't lose" deal and pick them up without even bothering to consider if I even want to play them.

    /points to pile of still wrapped £9.99 games, featuring Sonic Tennis, Ace Combat 5 and other stuff you've probably forgotten about with good reason

  • SHPanda #12 2 years ago

    @beemoh

    No, if the classics range of 360 games were reduced to £10, they'd be complaining that Ford Fiesta's are too expensive because they don't read, they just see MS and price and then complain about something. Hence Lave_from_PA's retarded comment about it being a digital copy.

    Are people here incredibly stupid or do they just read MS and price reduction and complain it's not enough, instead of reading the article?

    Almost every comment is this "isn't cheap enough to compete with retail" and "no-one's going to buy GOD until they £9.99" etc

    Read the article, it's not difficult, it's only about 3 sentences long! It's about the Classics range being dropped to £14.99 not Games on Demand! Classics Range are the million selling games that get re-released as a budget title on disc just in a silver box not a green one, and have always been sold in shops for £19.99, ever since the PS2 and it's Platinum range. The fact they're bringing the price down is great, £19.99 for what are generally good games is great and to be another £5 cheaper is even better.

    These are physical copies available in the shops, not digital copies, you can still lend them to people, trade them in or use them as coasters if you want.

  • Iain815 #13 2 years ago

    Vegas 2 is indeed awful. I only paid £17 for it, but Jesus fucking Christ.

  • ZuluHero #14 2 years ago

    I really enjoyed Naruto: Rise of a Ninja actually. Never watched an episode of Naruto in my life, but on a friend's recommendation (and sheer-boredom) i picked it up and couldn't put it down. For £15 quid (Out of this lineup) you could do a lot worse.

  • Emmit_Assassin #15 2 years ago

    So they are happy to charge £14.99 for the game in the shops, but they want an extra £5 for their 'On-Demand' service? WTF? Who the hell do Microsoft think they are? I can just imagine the board meeting on that one...

    Chairman: Er....agenda three on our list today people is how we are going to rip xbox 360 owners off this week. Now, many of you will have seen the memo sent around last tuesday about charging for disk two and three of MG:Rising seperately, and also how we are going to charge people to download games a chapter at a time for twice the price and label it as 'convenient', well, the new idea is to charge £14.99 for a game in the shops, and £19.99 online. Obviously it costs us less to offer it online, so therefore we can charge more...Well? What do we think?

    All: Yay! Awesome!

  • septimus #16 2 years ago

    Not on GoD... FFS come on MS.

  • Stuz359 #17 2 years ago

    Are these really classics? I mean, when they were released we were just thankful for anything half decent on the new generation of consoles but you can hardly call these games classics. Bioshock and Grand Theft maybe but surely not Naruto or Vegas 2.

  • Sunyavadin #18 2 years ago

    NOW they are starting to get the idea. Some of these, such as GTA, certainly still have life in them.

    Of course, many of these games they are dropping to £15 cost less than a tenner preowned in stores, so they still need to come round a bit more.
    In fact, it could REALLY help the GoD service if they were to apply that sort of basic mathematical logic I'm arguing for on the classics range there as well:

    £5 for one over Live is £5 that a store is not making off a second hand sale, and £5 more than the £0 Microsoft would make on that preowned sale....
    Edited by 2 at 11/10/09 @ 03:27

  • altitude2k #19 2 years ago

    The pricing is understandable. If you could download and play games that were the same price as retail but with no postage and no waiting would you ever buy from Amazon or Play again? As it stands you can get the benefit of all-but-instant play, but at a premium and MS retain good relationships with retailers.

  • SniperZoz #20 2 years ago

    What we need is competition between download services ... they should allow (and they might legally have to in the future) other suppliers to provide games on the console ... that way prices would slowly start moving down.

    Other than that I think games in general are overprices, and downloadable ones even more so. I would say that £25 for the first month, £20 for another 6, and then £10 "forever" should be more than enogh! I think that at those prices a lot of ppl won't think about it and will just buy when the game is at the price they deem realistic.

  • AphoticCosmos #21 2 years ago

    Nice, but it's still more than some of those games can be found for.

    Double Agent is a must-play though, IMHO. Great atmosphere.

  • bioreit #22 2 years ago

    I don't buy second hand games EVER, so the comparison of the price of a brand new game to a second hand one is meaningless to me.

    I don't want some scratched to buggery, left-on-top-of-the-shitty-CRT copy from some little chav munchkin soiling my 360, especially when the shop you buy it from has used a circular-motion disc cleaner to really grind that dirt round the data track.

    May as well say "It's all well and good them dropping the price to £X, but I can borrow it off my mates for free, so they can shove their money!"

    Microsoft base their pricing structures (like all other companies) on things like retail indexes (grr, should be indices), which means they need to use actual retail pricing. Second hand pricing is so up and down and in many cases not tracked properly that it would be impractical for them to use as a means of working out prices.

    Just be thankful that the RRP has dropped from £20 for some good old titles you may have missed first time round - shops like GAME and Play tend to sell those at £16-17, so now, they'll probably sell them for £12-13, as a regular price. Means I can buy a few copies of Vegas 2 for my mates without breaking the bank and finally work through the shitty single player campaign!

  • miiiguel #23 2 years ago

    drop them to £0.99 each and maybe people would start buying them you corporate money grabbing tossers !

    Cristianity is stupid, Comunism is good!
    Shop as usual.
    And avoid panic buying.

    On a more serious tone than the ever so funny Negativland..., the West got used to China prices and its legion of video-gameless children. We all demand now ridiculous prices for everything.
    Edited by 3 at 11/10/09 @ 12:09

  • TheJuriel #24 2 years ago

    Damn, thought this would be about them lowering the insane prices they ask for the old Games On Demand.

  • dirk_aircool #25 2 years ago

    yes mee too . migt get one or 2 if they lower the GOD price

  • kendoji #26 2 years ago

    I'm a simple man, and to me this lowering of prices is a Good Thing.

  • Retroid #27 2 years ago

    Lowering RRP = good, and shops can always discount further. I can't see how anyone would bitch about cheaper RRPs on games.

  • harzo #28 2 years ago

    I'd be tempted by Midnight Club 3 on GOD, any opinions on it?

  • Retroid #29 2 years ago

    Midnight Club LA is actually pretty damned good and the city looks great, nice driving too.

    Try to get it cheaper, though! :)

  • jaguarwong #30 2 years ago

    Eurogamer is such a great site.
    It's intelligent, original and seems to possess a genuine understanding of both sides of the games market...

    I guess this is why it's always so dissapointing that so many of the contributers to it's forums come across as a bunch of unforgivable spastics.

  • Lave_from_PA #31 2 years ago

    @SHPanda Thanks for correcting me, I thought the Classics title was for the games you can buy online, and nothing in the article would have corrected that misunderstanding.

    Shame you acted like a dick whilst doing it though.

  • kentmonkey #32 2 years ago

    I approve Lave's post :o)

  • Goffee #33 2 years ago

    As a newbie Xbox owner, I welcome our price-cutting overlords.

  • Collymilad #34 2 years ago

    "Are people here incredibly stupid or do they just read MS and price reduction and complain it's not enough, instead of reading the article? "

    Bit of both.
    Edited by 1 at 11/10/09 @ 16:19

  • shotgun44 #35 2 years ago

    Once again, no one is forcing anyone to buy anything. Besides, if you're that bothered, all these games can be found for less than a tenner pre-owned anyways!

  • the_sas_man #36 2 years ago

    Play is knocking out Mass Effect with the special edition bonus dick (free planet among other things) for a £11 delivered!

    Fill ya boots

  • Avaloner #37 2 years ago

    All these games still cost 19.99. Am I missing something?

  • jaguarwong #38 2 years ago

    the_sas_man
    "special edition bonus dick"

    First alien side boob and now this!
    Edited by 3 at 12/10/09 @ 08:25

  • siro #39 2 years ago

    @harzo:
    I found Midnight Club to be much better than Burnout Paradise. Even though I am a huge not for the older BO games (100% on Revenge), I couldn't get on with Paradise properly. I didn't like how you picked up missions and to me it was just not fun. It's also the only 360 game I sold without playing through.

    Midnight Club is cracking. I'd also recommend Flatout, which still sometimes pops up for dirt cheap. Though technically behind the current batch of racers, it just oozes fun. And is the first game to do destruction derbies right since the original Destruction Derby.

  • kangarootoo #40 2 years ago

    RB6:V2 is excellent and well worth the price. Can't speak for the others.

  • Slikz #41 2 years ago

    I completed Vegas 2 last night with a mate, it doesnt get much better than this when it comes to co-op.....