XSeed Games on PSN

[Ringwraith]

Well, unlikely it's going anywhere, being digital an' all.

[fedaykin]

It's mostly standard practice to price your digital copies the same as their physical equivalents (or what they would be) at launch, but like all things, they should go down in price over time...
Depends how well something can hold its value, if a game's still selling at its original price point, no reason to drop it. See: Call of Duty games.

I can understand the justification for this as staff have still put in the same blood, sweat and tears. Some sensible part of me nevertheless rebels when getting a copy of a game/book packaged up and sent 100s of miles is cheaper than downloading it. Presumably, Atlus are just trying to cultivate some sort of premium image.

I guess similar apparent insanity exists in other industries. It is significantly cheaper to fly from the south of England to Scotland than it is to go by train by example (or at least was when I was living there).

[Ringwraith]

I can understand the justification for this as staff have still put in the same blood, sweat and tears. Some sensible part of me nevertheless rebels when getting a copy of a game/book packaged up and sent 100s of miles is cheaper than downloading it. Presumably, Atlus are just trying to cultivate some sort of premium image.

I guess similar apparent insanity exists in other industries. It is significantly cheaper to fly from the south of England to Scotland than it is to go by train by example (or at least was when I was living there).

Well, when you have a simultaneous physical and retail release, it makes sense to have them at the same price, (although retail copies being cheaper is common due to retailers themselves setting their own prices at the end of the day), so they don't undercut one another, and then price cuts get introduced which should keep them at roughly the same price as time goes on (although retailers, again, can mess this up).
It's more of an agreement so retailers don't feel as though they're getting ripped-off by being told they have to sell at a higher price than an equivalent digital version, and then refuse to stock their games, which they could well do, thus cutting off quite a significant part of sales in future.

[fedaykin]

Sorry, Ringwraith. Of course your observation that retailers would be screwed over by my hypothetical "fair" digital pricing, and thus that developers can't afford to undercut the sales avenues they rely upon, is quite cogent. I should have done a bit more research/thinking before voicing that opinion.

[Gintoki]

Atlus and premium image in the same sentence? These are the guys who chose of all things to bring over, the worst renditions of Growlanser and Kenka Bancho.

[fedaykin]

Atlus and premium image in the same sentence? These are the guys who chose of all things to bring over, the worst renditions of Growlanser and Kenka Bancho.

I was suggesting a possible reason for their refusal to drop prices long after release. I don't know if that is indeed what they are trying to do and probably Atlus wouldn't say anything if they were asked. (http://atlus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7771 The OP in this thread didn't get any sort of reply at all unsurprisingly.)

[Redhorse]

Oh, cool, Ringwraith is here, too. o.o

I'd love to see XSeed games on PSN ~ ^^

[Ringwraith]

Shhh!

I'm just a figment of your imagination.

[majestix1988]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...es-to-ps-vita/

lucky we some xseed games are really good for psvita compabilities

[Kovaelin]

How often does PSN do sales? There's "Spring Fever", so I'm wondering if they do any more for other seasons.