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The future or just a flash in the pan? Either way, the OnLive journey is going to be a fascinating one and today’s the day the service finally launches in the UK. Subscriptions to OnLive will cost 6.99 a month. For that money you get free access to the majority …
Read More »XBLA price rises havent dented sales
Nothing is too expensive if enough people are willing to pay the price, and Microsoft says that it may not yet have found the price ceiling for titles released over Xbox Live Arcade. XBLA portfolio director Chris Charla has admitted that the average price of a title on the service …
Read More »App Store game prices rise
Apple has upped the cost of games and other downloads on the App Store platform. Prices for apps increased in several countries – including the UK – and dropped in others. Games like Angry Birds which were previously 59p now cost 69p, while 1.19 apps have become 1.49. Apple reportedly …
Read More »3DS eShop brings game price hike
Nintendo’s 3DS eStore is now live, and the bad news for consumers is that many titles are priced significantly higher than on rival devices. For instance, PopCap’s Plants vs Zombies costs 7.20 on Nintendo’s device. It can be downloaded today for 1.79 on the Apple App Store. RPG Zenonia suffers …
Read More »iPad 2 pricing announced
Apple has finally confirmed its UK prices for the iPad 2 ahead of the device’s official UK launch this Friday (March 25th). As was exclusively revealed by MCV’s sister site PCR this morning, the launch has been pushed back until 5pm on Friday thanks to a national shipping error. Prices …
Read More »Xperia Play games cost between £1-£10
The marketing boss of Sony Ericsson UK has confirmed to MCV that downloadable games for the Xperia Play will be available for between 1 and 10. David Hilton also explained why he thinks the device can successfully fight for market share against behemoths such as the iPhone. "The main thing …
Read More »MS defends Games-On-Demand pricing
Platform holder Microsoft has once again defended what many see as the inflated prices it charges for full games downloads on its Xbox Live Games-On-Demand service. The fresh outcry comes after Halo: Reach arrived on the service at a full RRP of 49.99. "No one retailer has the lowest pricing …
Read More »Mixed predictions for 3DS game prices
Though we won’t know anything concrete about 3DS pricing until next Wednesday’s announcement event in Amsterdam, retailers have begun listing the first 3DS titles online – with mixed predictions about their RRP. We discovered earlier in the week that 3DS games will cost more than DS titles, which carry a …
Read More »OPINION: The year of the handheld
The 3DS is just weeks away and, as revealed earlier this week, the true successor to the PSP will be with us by the end of the year. But rather than just the clash of two hardware formats, 2011’s handheld confrontation is going to be fought on an entirely different …
Read More »Eight games named for 3DS launch
Nintendo has confirmed that eight titles will launch with the 3DS in Japan on February 26th. Only one of these, Nintendogs+Cats, is a first party title with the others coming from third party publishers – Super Street Fighter IV 3D, Winning Eleven, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (which …
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