New on PlayStation Store: Wolfenstein, Transistor, Drakengard 3, more

Actually it is a great update. Well I think getting new release games weekly since launch would delight anybody http://i.imgur.com/FfGkecW.jpg ^_^
Maybe buy a PlayStation console first and create a really gamer PSN account before asking for newer model PlayStation consoles too lol.

According to Fred, next week,

Was looking forward to today, expecting the announcement of the yearly games being switched out…

Yep. The pricing of digital games is beyond ridiculous. $99.95 AUD for a digital copy vs $64.98 for a physical copy if you pre-ordered at an Aussie retailer. At least with a physical copy, we don’t have to download 20+Gb and it can be traded in once we’re done with it.

SCEE continues to charge us more than SCEA for the same content, and we’re often forced to wait weeks, months or longer for that same content. Then there’s discounted content that the US offers, that we never see. SCEE’s sales are pathetic by comparison.

Stop it. Seriously. It’s just awkward. You don’t live in the US. You don’t trade in US currency. Stop expecting prices to match the US. It’s not discrimination.

Read this closely and read it again if you still need to: YOU DO NOT LIVE IN THE US. You do not get paid US wages. SCEE staff don’t get paid US wages. Neither you or they pay US taxes. Retailers in your country don’t pay US electricity bills. SCEE cannot operate in a fantasy realm where they pretend to live and work in the US, and your local retailers cannot charge US prices and expect to make a profit in your country, and pay their workforce. Your prices also include a high sales tax – US advertised prices don’t include sales tax, and the amount of sales tax is determined by each state. The average minimum wage in the US is $7.25 for adults.

YOU LIVE IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY WITH A DIFFERENT ECONOMY. Does caps lock help?

@Archacus – When you get together with your little ‘revolution’, I hope that you figure out how pointless it all is. You need to accept that your country and your economy is not the same as the US. It’s not only the cost of games, but also the cost of business that is higher. SCEE don’t operate in the US, so they can’t function the way SCEA does. They can’t pay US bills, taxes, wages. Your local retailers have a higher markup than US retailers because they need more money to do business in your country, just as SCEE does. Not because of some global conspiracy, but because YOUR ECONOMY IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Wages, taxes, the cost of business, the cost of distribution, the cost of localization, and on and on and on.

Comparing prices is pointless. It’s also ignorant. Different currency. Different economy. You can’t expect SCEE or retailers to give you foreign prices. They can’t operate their businesses on foreign costs. They can’t pay their workforce on foreign wages. The cost of everything is different. All you’re looking at is numbers, and over-reacting because they are HIGHER. WOW HIGHER NUMBERS. That doesn’t mean you are being ripped off. If you want US prices on everything, go live in the US.

@Archacus – You’re over-analyzing everything. The pricing differences. My response to you. Everything.

Your country is not being singled out. Everything about your country, your currency, and your local marketplaces are different to others. How much you get paid. How much you pay in taxes. How much is costs to buy milk and bread. How much electricity costs. It’s all different. And it doesn’t just affect you, but also businesses operating in your country.

The point is, you aren’t really being charged more, but rather, differently. Not because somebody is sitting behind a desk saying “Hey I know, lets charge those people more because they live in THAT country”, but because your entire economy, the value of your money locally and abroad, and the cost of doing business, is ‘DIFFERENT’. Expecting SCEE to give you an explanation is fruitless. You want me to show you some magical numbers that explain it all – I’m not sure even an economist could explain it a simple way.

Your economy is not the same as the US economy. The value of your money within your local market is not the same. You’re trading in tulips, they’re trading in beads. How many tulips it costs to buy stuff in Europe won’t be the same as how many beads it costs to buy stuff in the US, and how many beads an American earns in a week will differ from how many tulips you get in your pay every week.

I’m not hurt that people are complaining. It’s just bizarre that people are making such an enormous deal out of… nothing. This is not me being a smarty-pants. It’s just common sense. Every economy is different.

If you can save money by buying your games from a foreign market, then by all means do it. Nobody is stopping you from taking advantage of such things. Of course, lots of people doing this, will have an effect on businesses operating in your region who simply can’t compete with those foreign prices. It already has. Such is life.

@blendercat27 you completely miss the point. They aren’t comparing it to NA prices.
They are comparing it to physical copies in their own region.
I’m honestly surprised UK isn’t being screwed on this as well. Day 1 physical price here is £39.99 but digitally is commonly put up for ££50-55.
This is not comparing it to NA, this is comparing it to physical in our own region.

WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT

See, I can caps too.

It really is bad as the US Netflix app on PS Vita has been compatible with the UK service since day one. That would suggest it supports the different DRM scheme that they use in Europe so why on earth they didn’t release it is anybodies guess.

he got no much demos and this conplains need be pass on i feel you.

With Insomniac now busy developing Sunset Overdrive for the Xbone. I’d say doubt it.

i think we should ge pre orders so i guess EU again siting on there ass.

UFO Interactive said it’s coming, but “in just a couple more weeks”. It’s been 3 weeks but still nothing, though. I’ll keep waiting.

no one showing the doom beta so i guess doom beta was fake or it was awful they dont want to show it so at moment i think beta fake .

LT Combo, Zero chance of pre-ordering it Digitally. I bought it for the PS4.

I agree 100% but i got some bad news i gotten a few EMAIL from sony saying plus is fantastic vaule for money & i sign the T&Cs agreement what SCEA does as we use SCEE Content.

so i dont think it going to change the latest email wanted to speak with me over the phone.

dear sony if you reading this im busy ATM getting ready to go somehere for 5 days housework 1st shopping, & others then be away from home. i spead other email soon.

Thanks for the info Fred, you’re always fair with your replies from what I see and its good to see more presence on the store post this week. I have to say though now it feels like we may be waiting for E3 or something to possibly get back that we should never have lost.

game out next week so there no pre oder just go to the shops to save your time or wait when out on psn next week.

This is probably because the messages you read and don’t read are not tracked by PSN. Hard to imagine them changing this – it’s the sort of thing privacy advocates go nuts over.