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GTA: Chinatown Wars on PSN today News
PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
The excellent Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is this week's headline attraction on the European PlayStation Store.
Our praise-laden review should convince you that £29.99 is an asking price worth parting with, unless you want the UMD, which is inevitably cheaper.
Elsewhere, you might like to try demos of NBA 2K10 or Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (PSP). Plus, there's new content for Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Cross Edge.
There's only one extra PSP Minis game, Red Bull X Fighters, today - and it costs four quid.
Of the discounts, Riff: Everyday Shooter is most alluring, at £3.99/4.99.
Over to music watch, and Queen invade Rock Band while some rockers I've never heard of appear for Guitar Hero.
PS3 Demos
- NBA 2K10
PS3 Game Content
- EyePet: Wild West Styling Pack (£2.39/2.99)
- EyePet: Lucky Dip Pack 1 (free)
- Midnight Club Los Angeles: Police Car Pack (free)
- Cross Edge: Power-Up Pack + (free)
- Guitar Hero 5: Classic Rock 2 Track Pack ("Freeze Frame" by Geils Band, "Lay It On The Line" by Triump, "Show Me The Way (Live)" by Peter Frampton) - £4.39/5.49 (£1.59/1.99 each)
- Rock Band: Queen Pack 01 ("Another One Bites The Dust", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "I Want It All by Queen", "I Want To Break Free", "Killer Queen", "One Vision", "Somebody To Love", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Under Pressure") - £9.19/11.25 (£0.99/1.49 each)
PS3 Premium Themes
- EyePet (£1.59/1.99)
- Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time (£1.59/1.99)
PSP Games
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (£29.99/34.99)
- Hannah Montana: Rock Out The Show (£23.99/29.99)
- WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 (£31.99/39.99)
- Marvel Superhero Squad (£29.99/34.99)
- Astro Boy: The Video Game (£23.99/29.99)
- G-Force (£29.99/34.99)
PSP Minis
- Red Bull X Fighters (£3.99/4.99)
PSP Demos
- Star Wars Battlefield: Elite Squadron
PSP Game Content
- Hannah Montana: Musicians Wardrobe Add-on (free)
- Hannah Montana: Hannah Montana Fashion Add-on (£1.19/1.49)
- Hannah Montana: Moment Maker Effects Add-on (£0.79/0.99)
- Hannah Montana: Rockstar Stage Props Add-on (free)
- Rock Band Unplugged: "All I Want" by The Offsrping (£0.99/1.49)
- Rock Band Unplugged: "The Rock Show" by Blink 182 (£0.99/1.49)
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Comments: 1-33 of 33 in total
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SeesThroughAll
22/10/09 @ 13:46
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Chinatown Wars is too expensive. It costs more than either of the "full 3D" PSP GTA games!
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Which version of Riff: Everyday Shooter is discounted PS3 or PSP. I've got the PSP version and I really like it so if this is the PS3 version then I'm all over it.
EDIT: Yay, it's the PS3 version. I might also get a couple of PS1 games, they translate really well to the PSP and they are better than most PSP games too.
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jefranklin18
22/10/09 @ 14:17
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Pricing is generally set by the publisher (Rockstar in this case) not directly by Sony. How many times does that need to be said?
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insincere_dave
22/10/09 @ 14:33
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I bought this for £14.99 on the DS and that seemed like a reasonable price. I'm not sure whether £29.99 primarily falls into SonyLOL or DigitalDistributionLOL territory.
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GamesProgrammer
22/10/09 @ 15:08
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dont know why Rockstar decided to price GTA that high on the download store, i guess they think people can still buy it on UMD if they want it cheaper, but i aint interested in carrying around UMDs any more, thanks rockstar but i will wait till you tell sony to put it in the specials section.
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wewillselfdestruct
22/10/09 @ 15:09
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"Pricing is generally set by the publisher (Rockstar in this case) not directly by Sony. How many times does that need to be said?"
It doesn't need to be said anymore. Because bizarrely it's not actually right. Final pricing is set by Sony.
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GamesProgrammer
22/10/09 @ 15:15
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@wewillselfdestruct
got any evidence to back that up cos as a developer currently working on games for PSN ihave seen nothing so far to suggest that sony get involved in pricing unless there paying for development in some way |
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PrivateJoker
22/10/09 @ 15:27
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Failure to recognise that GTA won't be available till FRIDAY!!! on PSN, get your facts straight, which shouldn't be that hard as you just copy the Euro PS Blog.
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wewillselfdestruct
22/10/09 @ 15:28
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@GamesProgrammer
I recently worked on a title that features premium DLC for which we were told that Sony would decide on the final pricing (not a Sony title). But in all honesty I'd actually like to believe that it's wrong as it seems slightly ludicrous to me. |
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Ninja_Tino
22/10/09 @ 15:36
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I brought it off play first day for £15! Digital purchasing will never take off properly if this trend continues. On a much more important note - QUEEN! WOO!
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youhavenomail
22/10/09 @ 18:10
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As long as games are released simultaneously on UMD, there's no need to pay £29.99 for a download. And even if that ever becomes the only option, which for the PSP Go's sake it needs to, it's still too expensive by £5.
Until these companies stop being greedy, they can forget about their precious digital distribution future. |
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RandomTerrain
22/10/09 @ 18:14
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A Star Wars demo, hurray, I'll have to give that a try.
GTA looks great, but I'll wait for a price drop. |
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electrolite
23/10/09 @ 06:38
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I would like to thank Sony for their determined effort to kill any chances of DD becoming the sole distribution method for games
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£30 for a handheld game is too expensive anyway IMO Download or Physical for me. Handheld gaming has always been a bit of a fallback option really when I can't get onto a home console... so given the choice of buying something like Borderlands for £35 or a PSP game for £30 it's a no brainer.
Handheld games need to be no more than £20 IMO (£15 for a good game is the sweet spot I think for a 6-7hr great handheld game) |
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SeesThroughAll
23/10/09 @ 09:38
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got any evidence to back that up cos as a developer currently working on games for PSN ihave seen nothing so far to suggest that sony get involved in pricing unless they're paying for development in some way
I think this probably explains it. |
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Ha10B1a573r
24/10/09 @ 21:33
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When I first heard about this coming to the PSP Go, I completely forgot about a UMD release so just got it on the DS instead (http://www.gamesbasement.co.uk/games-act... since I don't have one of the new handhelds as of now... maybe some day. *sigh*
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