E3 2011: EU PlayStation Store E3 update: Vita, inFamous 2, Black Ops Escalation

GunstarHeroX on 8 Jun '11 said:

Hmm that's interesting, a retail game being released same week on PSN. But wait, it's €59.99, a tenner more than a physical copy. Makes no sense. Are you paying the premium to play it 2 days early or something?

But on a more positive note, Beyond Good & Evil HD yeeeaaaahhhh!

JakeyBaby on 8 Jun '11 said:

InFamous 2 50 quid!? See this is the reason download only is not the future. You can get InFamous2 anywhere else for 40 quid, disc, case and manual included. Why? Why pay more for less?
This whole 'if it's downloaded we can save money on packaging' idea is useless to the buyer, because they'll never pass on saving to us.

Mark240473 on 8 Jun '11 said:

If you read it all, it says that Infamous 2 is only available on Friday in the UK, so you get no benefit for paying an extra £10.

Ludicrous. Not only is it over-priced, but you can't trade the bugger in either.

No thanks.

Anyway, on a more positive note:

Beyond Good and Evil! Yay!

TheLastDodo on 8 Jun '11 said:

You're paying an extra tenner so it doesn't upset the GAME's and Gamestations, and so they won't pull PS3 games from their brick and mortars, where business is still primarily done.

The irony is you'll probably pop into your local GAME on friday and they'll be selling inFamous 2 at 55 quid knowing them.

I pre ordered mine for £35.50 .

Megatrons_Fury on 8 Jun '11 said:

Another week of awfull content, check the US update folks special offers on games like

Shank $5.00
Deathspank $7.50
Deathspank thongs of virtue $7.50
Dead Space Ignition $2.50
Tumble $5.00
Tetris $5.00

Battlefield 2 content
Assasins creed 2 content
Call of duty content.

What do we get........... Crap themes and the over priced Beyond Good & evil at a joke of a price at 11.99.

On 360 that game is 800 points which translates to around 6 pound or something and they have had it for months already. Somebody somewhere is taking the mick on that, was gonna get it if it was around 7.99 with also 20% off for ps plus but already have the originals on every format already so not paying this much just to have it in HD.

Infamous 2 for 49.99 is just terrible and another reason to hate the EU store. No offers at all this week for Europe either whilst america gets insane amounts, thats fair.

Sign up for a US account folks, its so much better, with luck one day the EU store will be fit enough to lick it's boots.... But i doubt it!!!

On ebay right now a seller i use is selling US cards for 33.36 for a $50.00 voucher, when you take into consideration how much cheaper things are on the US store it's a steal.

JakeyBaby on 8 Jun '11 said:

With the above... I completely agree.

TheLastDodo on 8 Jun '11 said:

Shank CRAP
Deathspank CRAP
Deathspank thongs of virtue CRAP
Dead Space Ignition CRAP
Tumble WHAT?!?
Tetris GOOD but much cheaper on the App Store
Battlefield 2 content OWN IT ALL
Assasins creed 2 content SHOULD BE FREE ANYWAY (Content that was deliberately cut from the game so it could be premium DLC)
Call of duty content ALWAYS OVERPRICED.

Value is subjective .

El Mag on 8 Jun '11 said:

WOAH THERE BETTY!

Shanks not crap.

Carry on.

boskersrevenge on 8 Jun '11 said:

Neither is Deathspank.

Queen Skillage on 8 Jun '11 said:

Neither is Shank! Oh...

THE_LIBERTINE_ on 8 Jun '11 said:

how far behind are we still seeing as had 4 updates so far ? was thinking we are still due 1 more this week and 2 next.

Very_Silver_Ownz on 8 Jun '11 said:

Wouldn't play Infamous 2 if you payed me £50...okay maybe I would but I'd sell the game and take your £50 anyway

Megatrons_Fury on 8 Jun '11 said:

Oh my god i've started a war....

Just to add a bit of fire I have to say that neither Death Spank are crap nor is Shank, they wont win awards for best game ever but are solid 7-8/10 games so at those prices thats fantastic value.

Tumble on the other hand is a PS Move title and is a bit..... Well...... Crappy but hey at least US folks get the opportunity to choose right? and Tetris is great

This wishy washy Euro store has to change, it's overall a very bad service, the prices are always inflated, the offers are so far behing Japan, Hong Kong and America its absurd. I have been told from a friend who lives in America that they are getting Beyond good & evil for $10 and using their ps plus will bring that down to $8.00 and like i said if you get american store vouchers from ebay then your gonna get it for so much cheaper.

I'm not trying to be cheap or petty here I'm just saying that the American gaming habits and the UK gaming habits are very close so making us have different content and sometimes wildly different prices is just annoying, thank god Sony still allow you to have multiple accounts from multiple regions or right now i would be gutted.

Your right about assasins creed content though, it was cut from the main game so it should be free but then so should the first COD packs of any game and also LA NOIR cases should be free as well. Im beggining to hate what publishers are doing to claw back more money from us.

Megatrons_Fury on 8 Jun '11 said:

I'm with Silver on this as well, sorry to double post so quickly by the way.

Infamous 2 looks lovely but it cant just be me that thinks that this game would benefit from a slightly slower moving main character, the running just feels wrong, can't explain it exactly, just not right...... Too much animation maybe or something.

Sometimes during the demo it just felt that cole glided around on his own and i loved the first infamous so it can't be me hating that type of game. I'm a bit annoyed about me not clicking with it to be honest, i will probably get it at some point, usually when Zavvi do their mega monday thing of 17.95 in about 6 weeks time like every other game that gets released thesedays but i had hoped to get this on friday and just dive right in and love it, this sadly will not be the case.

Maybe i will get Duke Nukem instead, a friend of mine who played a recent demo said it was awfull and totally missed the point but we each like different things so i guess i should play it myself first.

sparkcow on 8 Jun '11 said:

Where on earth is the next back to the future episode??????

Episode 4 has just come out in the US today and we still have not had episode 3.

There was supposed to be a new episode released every month, PSN Store was down for six weeks, so therefore surely we should have two new epsiodes by now, one at the very least.

Sony EU Store you really are an embarrassment, I would have hoped you'd get your act together during the long downtime.

Am I also right in thinking that only the US customers got the free PSP games too on the welcome back, nothing for the UK?

Teelahead on 8 Jun '11 said:

Oh my god i've started a war....

With your username it was bound to happen

THE_LIBERTINE_ on 8 Jun '11 said:

nope you just have to go on ps store via your psp and you get your 2 free psp games same process as ps3 ones

TheBusterMan on 8 Jun '11 said:

Infamous 2,is it as boring as the first?

Rude on 8 Jun '11 said:

I was hoping that for the Castlevania add ons there would be an option to download them both for a deal... hopefully this will come in a few weeks or a month as I really want them but my money is going to Beyond Good and Evil HD for now

Queen Skillage on 9 Jun '11 said:

Where on earth is the next back to the future episode??????

This is why I brought mine in the US Store -- EU Store usually doesn't get the update until later. One or two updates later I think it was. Plus it worked out cheaper to get it from the US.