Uncharted 4 Hastily Discounted in EU PlayStation Store Flash Sale

We live in an age where a game that has been out for 2 months is "discounted" at £34.99. Jesus. That's like the absolute max acceptable price for a brand new download game. Even for physical, any more than that is pushing it.

I would buy so many more games digitally if they were realistically priced. Everytime I see the offer of the week its stil more expensive than buying it some where online. The only time I buy digital would be from the NA psn store or when there are flash sales

@PorllM It's awful, isn't it. In so many ways this industry is so out of touch with the real world. Luckily I got a copy of Uncharted 4 off ebay for £20, but I would have preferred my money to go to the developers and to Sony etc. It's just unrealistic for so many people in the current climate!

The number of times I've had my card details and password ready to take Sony up on these "reduced" prices and then taken one look at the offer and refused to buy purely due to the paltry amount that is discounted.

@get2sammyb Couldn't disagree more, personally. The insane amount of work that's gone into this game - the years and years of toil, borderline insane levels of marketing. And it paid off - it's an incredibly accomplished game, part of a series that actually I'd hold up in the same regard as my favourite action films of all time. And we're actually complaining that the price hasn't been reduced after two months?

Mega Drive games used to cost £50 back in the day. Heck, I paid £60+ for some imports on Mega Drive and Saturn back in the day. Uncharted 4 for £35 is a friggin bargain.

£35 for a top game is definitely the right price. I remember my mum taking us to Toy'r'us for Sonic 1 for my older brother and it was forty quid!

cheaper games will always be good. It keep the momentum going. And it make lot of sense, the more people buy your games, the cheaper it get. This is why Steam can produce lot of season sales without getting profits drop. Infact, it only getting bigger.

@SegaBlueSky You're comparing two different markets, both in terms of size and business method. The neo geo games were the cost of a hand held console in today's world but let's not give them any ideas!

@SegaBlueSky I paid £79 for an import starfox on the snes, and if I remember rightly street fighter was £60. Plus I was in my last couple of years at high school so that was a lot of money to save. So for me all these years later, £35 for games is great value.

I'm kinda forced on a digital sale with I am setsuna but I always prefer to buy physical copy. You get much better value.

I agree, £35 is a good deal for this game digitally. People seem to assume a digital copy should cost less because it's not printed on a Blu-ray. Fact is Blu-ray cost literally peanuts when printing in this quantity, and the distribution of them is cheaper than the ludicrous amounts of compute, storage and networking equipment required to digitally transfer tens of gigabytes of data to all the purchasers across the Internet. At some point, yes, digital purchases should become cheaper. But I don't think we're there yet.

I just finish uncharted. An back to playing witcher 3 blood & wine. I keep expecting the witcher to climb like uncharted. He seems so clumsy now.

Very tempting but not as tempting as Doom for £30 though which is also on offer, I might buy that.

@professorhat Digital music is cheaper than physical releases in most cases, so why not games?

@BowTiesAreCool How much work and money went in to making that game for me they earned €60 easy. Good stuff is no problem to pay for.

@stevejcrow
(a) Digital music is a much more mature market - the fact you can stream pretty much anything for free now also means intense competition has lowered prices.
(b) the size of digital music files is tiny compared to that of an HD movie or a, PS4 game. A Blu-ray costs nigh on the same to produce and distribute as a CD, but a PS4 game is at least ten times the size of data, and more likely 30 to 40 times the size. All of that data has to be stored in highly available expensive data centres, with vast bandwidth available to ensure they can be distributed to millions of people across the Internet in a reasonable time frame.

Like I say, I'm sure one day, it will catch up and become cheaper than physical distributions (especially once more digital sales occur compared to physical sales, pushing up the cost of producing the physical copy). But that day is not here yet.

@professorhat Both use same bandwidth, probably housed in same server rooms.
Films are also cheaper digitally, hd versions also pretty large in download size.
I'm not picking fault with you personally, just can't see why we accept this with game downloads on PlayStation and Xbox, but not PC, music or video downloads?

@stevejcrow Well yes, obviously if the bandwidth has been increased to ensure speedy download of PS4 games, then music files will take advantage of that. But the point is, the bandwidth will have to been upgraded to ensure download of tens of gigabytes of data doesn't take days. A retailer only selling MP3s wouldn't need to lease anywhere near the same size pipe as one which is allowing the download of HD movies etc. Plus you're ignoring the storage - uncompressed CDs are 700 Mb max, a PS4 game is going to be 30 - 40GB. Storage isn't cheap when you need multiple redundant copies across the world - it won't be sitting on USB disks!

From what I've seen, HD movies are still generally more expensive than Blu-Rays to purchase. You also have to remember competition - there a lots of different places you can purchase digital music and films, and competition drives down prices. PS4 and Xbox One games can only be purchased digitally from their respective stores. Perhaps this is something that needs to be changed in future...

As I say again, one day this will change and digital copies will get cheaper, but we're not there yet.

@SegaBlueSky @Kidfried What? Did you somehow misread every comment? Nobody complained that it hasn't been discounted or that games are too expensive these days, it HAS been discounted, that's what this article is about, and the conversation was digital prices over physical! The complaint was it was £50 to download when it was available physically for £35 on day one. Since the physical edition includes a case, manual, and can be sold if you no longer want it, surely, the digital version should be cheaper? Charging £50 for a digital download is an absurd rip off, it's not a matter of opinion, it simply is. I may download it for that price and have the time of my life, nobody is debating this as we weren't talking cost vs content. I've still been robbed though if I could have bought the disc for £30-35 day one for the same (better, technically) experience.

@PorllM Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was more objecting to the fact that some gamers think that it should have been cheaper because it had been out for a whole two months already. Which I don't agree with. There will always be a disparity between retailers and digital store fronts, but that's the beauty of choice. I don't think street price should influence digital prices, personally.

Thinking digital games are a rip-off IS an opinion, not a fact. It's pretty much the perfect example of an opinion. Digital games have benefits over physical purchases, so it's a matter for each individual to decide which purchase is for them and what price they're willing to pay for it. I stated my case - and to say you're 'robbed' if you could have got a disc version is pure hyperbole. No one's robbing you of anything. You make an informed decision as a consumer and get on with it.

@SegaBlueSky I meant to say digital games are a ripoff in comparison to physical, especially when physical games have been the same price for the last 2 or 3 generations. Of course you can think they are or they aren't a ripoff, that's an opinion and up to personal interpretation, but they are worth less than physical games, that isn't.

I actually prefer digital games myself, my PS4 is full of them and I never have to change discs, plus if I want a day one game it is my only option as my job means midnight launches are difficult. The fact remains there is less cost involved for the publisher and gaming is the only industry in the world where digital content can be sold for more than physical. You can also make this an EU issue, as digital games on PSN are much cheaper everywhere else.Uncharted 4 was just over £30 on the US PSN on day one, allowing for currency conversion. Yes I paid £55 for N64 cartridge games back in the day, and am aware things have been worse. No that doesn't make £50 an acceptable price for a download game in 2016.