Penny Arcade Adventures XBLA – $20
I saw this on Joystiq early this morning and wanted to gauge the opinions of the U360 crowd on the pricing of Hothead Games’ Xbox Live Arcade title based on the boys over at Penny Arcade. It’s called Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness and it’s been priced at 1600 Microsoft Points ($20).
So now I suppose we can say that along with having some of the highest priced content in the Xbox Live Marketplace, they also now have matched the highest price for an Xbox Live Arcade title. There is a plan to deliver new episodes every few months yet no details on how much that will cost have been revealed.
They have rabid fans but are they rabid enough to produce yet another cash cow for the comic team? Cash rules everything around me…dollar, dollar bill yall!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
$20 is steep for a download. I think they should’ve done the unthinkable and put it on store shelves for $30. A case, a manual… you know… something tangible? But do it at a price point that is smaller than other retail games. It would fly off the shelves even for people who have no idea what the game is… being cheaper than the others, everybody would buy a copy!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
you’re probably right about that Nu.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Good group of people but bad pricing idea. 20.00 for an arcade game not going to go over well at all. I am a bit surprised they didn’t think how this would look to the fans that follow them? Ahh well we will see but not my MS points.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Yikes! 1600 MSP is beyond comprehension. For me personally, I’ll spend 400 MSP ($5) all day long for content. As the price goes up, my wallet closes. I wouldn’t care if the new XBLA promised me the “meaning of life”. I am not shelling out $20.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:58 am
The pricing might have been forced by the PC and Mac versions being $20. It was probably a decision that involved balancing the loss of XBLA sales but protecting the PC/Mac sales (where they’re footing bandwidth costs but getting better margins) which they’d lose if the XBLA version was cheaper.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:44 am
1600 points, thats steep, is it going to be worth 2 ‘normal’ arcade titles possibly but it really is going to have to be something special
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