Amazon sells Xbox One games for £89.99

[Bald Bouncer]

Xbox One games are at least twice as powerful as Xbox 360 games, people. They must be, or Amazon UK wouldn't be charging over twice the price for them. Colour the details "strictly provisional" and "highly unappetising" for the moment. The retailer has FIFA 14 and Call of Duty: Ghosts available to buy on Xbox One for £89.99, as against £40 for the current generation versions. Activision and EA have yet to announce official price points for the next gen editions of either game. It's all placeholder stuff, of course, but it's worth musing about whether Amazon seriously believes we'll see a price jump next generation. Most pundits feel the present, £40-50 premium price point is utterly out of whack with what consumers are prepared to pay, hence the popularity of second-hand games.



It's thought that the growth of digital distribution could allow for more and more reasonable price points, as there won't be any retailers taking a cut of the profits. That's all rather hypothetical, however. In practice, a company like Activision is probably going to charge what it thinks it can get away with.

Source: Rheena.com

[Rick Sanchez]

£80 there having a laugh

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[rIKmAN]

I really don't think the whole Xbox One launch could have gone any worse for Microsoft.

They alienated a lot of gamers with all the bullshit regarding second hand games, Kinect being required and always on etc, and now although this isn't their fault, now Amazon put the game prices at £89.99 at a time when millions of people are on their arses financially with no money, no jobs and people scraping around to make ends meet.

Even if the price is wrong - which I think it has to be - it's another shot in the foot.

Also, if the games had been in development for a couple of years already with brand new next gen engine built from the ground up then I would happily pay a bit extra knowing the difference in quality would (possibly) justify it.

But that's not the case, FIFA, CoD Ghosts and no doubt most other launch games are simply "upgraded" versions of the existing engines, which in reality means they have changed the rendering engine and upped the resolution of the models and textures and added a load of new shader fx - I very much doubt the physics, gameplay or sound engines will be any different between 360 and Xbox One so apart from the upgraded visuals it will be the same game.

Think about it - the best thing the brand new CoD could showcase on it's big next gen debut was a fucking Alsations scars. Really?

Even the forest scene has been proven to be smoke and mirrors using fake light sources.

[EvilBoB]

Placeholder prices just like the XBox One and PS4 prices they have listed. They have no idea how much these things will retail for so are guessing at a high figure and will drop the price and charge the lower price once they are released.

PS4 for £599 anyone? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlaySta...1&keywords=ps4
XBox One for £599? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Xb...words=xbox+one
...
no takers? didn't think so...

PS4 games are also showing as the same price : http://www.amazon.co.uk/ACTIVISION-D...ords=ps4+games

So this isn't "another shot in the foot for Microsoft."

[Mystical_2K]

Placeholder prices just like the XBox One and PS4 prices they have listed. They have no idea how much these things will retail for so are guessing at a high figure and will drop the price and charge the lower price once they are released.

PS4 for £599 anyone? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlaySta...1&keywords=ps4
XBox One for £599? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Xb...words=xbox+one
...
no takers? didn't think so...

for me the console needs to be £299.99 and games at £40-45

any more than that any they can take running jump as people dont have to money or the inclination to purchase a new system when they are more than happy with their current setups of 360's and PS3's

[{{909}}]

This is a cock up by Amazon, not MS or Sony.

[ant3b]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was £70 for games due to used games and development costs

[Mr Slippyfist]

I bet the games are going to be £60-£70, Amazon have stuck a price of £90 on there so that when the games come out they can drop the prices and act like they are doing us a massive favour.

[funkyg]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was £70 for games due to used games and development costs

I remember paying £70 for Turok on the N64 when that first came out.

[swiggy]

Anything over £45 and I'll be making a permanent move to PC gaming.

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[macmilm]

I remember paying £70 for Turok on the N64 when that first came out.

Were you pissed ????

[ant3b]

It's true some n64 games were in the region of £70

[Mr 250]

I paid £100 for Streetfigher II on Super Famicom and £100 plus on Neo Geo games about 20 years ago.
Obviously I'd like to pay less but I would happily pay £89.99 for CoD Ghosts.

[Chubbs]

They don't even list COD Ghost for PS4 and Fifa 14 PS4 is also £89.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-A...ds=fifa+14+ps4

[rookie]

I paid £100 for Streetfigher II on Super Famicom and £100 plus on Neo Geo games about 20 years ago.
Obviously I'd like to pay less but I would happily pay £89.99 for CoD Ghosts.

i remember the days of independent games shops, the cost of import games, i lived in epson and i remeber a shop called the games room, it was well good hard arcade games at the back of the shop, virtua racing was around £70 for the mega drive

anyways if games for the xbox one are going to cost that much i wood not be able to afford it

[macmilm]

i lived in epson

You lived in a printer ????

[bennym]

LOL

[{{909}}]

If games did cost 90bar a throw, we as consumers would have to be more fussy, buy less games and developers would have to put more into them and not arse rape us with DLC bullshit at every opportunity. But they wont, so it doesnt matter.

No end of games are 45 + the same again (and more) to pay for DLC just to keep up with the rest of the people online,which is more worrying to me.

[barrysmith]

All this and now and we go and sign mark Hughes . My week has turned to shit!!!

[EvilBoB]

I paid £100 for Streetfigher II on Super Famicom and £100 plus on Neo Geo games about 20 years ago.
Obviously I'd like to pay less but I would happily pay £89.99 for CoD Ghosts.

I think that was around the time I bought a SWC I paid £90 for SF2 on import but played it to death.

No way the games will be this price. WHEN THEY ANNOUNCE THE PRICES OFFICIALLY they will be the same or less than current generation games imo.