Commercial Game Prices

[craigix]

Trying to get an idea on behalf of various UK developers. We are not talking GP32 commercial game rubbish, but ports of 3D high quality recent handheld titles.

 

[no_skill]

depends on which game. But as we're talking of ports i'd go for the lower scale of the thing.

AAAAAND: I'd rather prefer getting games for the gp2x via a -pay-now-download-now- service.
Why?
1. I only have 1 sd and i want things to stay that way.
2. I want the games to be rather cheap (price, not quality )

 

[Ravnos]

I'm too lazy to convert to/from pounds, but I'd pay $15-20 US for a download if it wasn't DRM crippled and the game looked like it was pretty good. Add $10 or so if it was boxed and the DRM wouldn't bother me as much as long as I could play it on a new GP2X should mine break without having to contact the developers/sellers.

 

[Kayday]

The same with me. Depends on which game is being ported but no more than 14.99 (UKP) download. Don't care about boxed since most of us have SD cards and it's basically a necessity.

cragix : when you say "ports of 3D high quality recent handheld titles", do you mean titles from other handhelds like PSP, DS, GBA? Or more in the line of Pocket PC, Palm?

 

[davey g]

If it's as good as a high quality DS/PSP game then I don't see why I wouldn't pay £30. I have my doubts as to how good these games will be though.

 

[Julius]

Download (if it isn't ridiculy infested by DRM, some as long as reasonable is fine) and 20€ max.
Depends highly on the game of course.

P.S.: It is very important that any kind of download/transfer kind of thing is working with Linux!

 

[Paradox]

erm, isnt DRM to stop you giving these commercial games to others and letting them play it on their system? because if so, why do you care so much if it has DRM, you obviously want to distribute the games you get then?

i'd pay £30 for a PSP/DS quality game boxed, £20-25 download.

 

[Ravnos]

erm, isnt DRM to stop you giving these commercial games to others and letting them play it on their system? because if so, why do you care so much if it has DRM, you obviously want to distribute the games you get then?

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No, I want to play them on another GP2X should mine break or get bricked, or the SD card I put it on get lost or worn out. But it's sure nice of you to jump to such a conclusion like a total asshole.

DRM hasn't stopped anyone from pirating anything yet, and it's not going to start now. All it does is get in the way of the rights of legitimate customers.

 

[Eolair]

For me it depends entirely on the quality of the game. I choose 14.99 (UKP) Download, 19.99 (UKP) Boxed for a reasonably good game. A great game and I'd pay 19.99 (UKP) Download, 24.99 (UKP) Boxed or even 29.99 (UKP) Boxed.

 

[craigix]

Not pocketPC/Palm, but real ports (or updates) from DS,PSP,Apple,GBA.

 

[Jarska333]

Apple? Mac or iPod?

Pippin ports? :huh:

 

[PSyMastR]

Nice. I would actually like download or boxed games, but also the ability to place them on my SD card also, wait. There is now hotswapping, nvm. Boxed!

 

[Ravnos]

Would these guys be one of the developers you're talking to? I'd love to see Payback on the GP2X, seeing as how they won't ship the GBA version to North America.

 

[OmarNawaz]

i wouldnt mind paying up to 30 pounds if they are good quality didnt see that bit about ds psp quality when i voted

£30 boxed

£20 download

 

[Shotgun Dingo]

I'm too lazy to convert to/from pounds, but I'd pay $15-20 US for a download if it wasn't DRM crippled and the game looked like it was pretty good. Add $10 or so if it was boxed and the DRM wouldn't bother me as much as long as I could play it on a new GP2X should mine break without having to contact the developers/sellers.

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If it is of any help, here are the prices from Craig's poll, converted to USD at the current approximate rate of exchange at the time of writing;

£9.99 (Download), £14.99 (Boxed) = $17.55, $26.34
£14.99 (Download), £19.99 (Boxed) = $26.34, $35.13
£19.99 (Download), £24.99 (Boxed) = $35.13, $43.92
£29.99 (Boxed) = $52.71

As an aside, I would be much more interested in boxed titles than in downloadable ones, as there is both a concern regarding over restrictive DRM (please read further for my reasoning on this issue), and a possible risk with download schemes that there may end up being no way for people on particular operating systems to make use of them. (I am concerned that there would be no way to obtain electronic purchases I make due to the fact that I use Mac OS X, for example.)

Like some others, I would not mind reasonable DRM on download purchases, as that is only to be expected to protect developers' investments in bringing a game to such an open platform. However, I would be reluctant to take the download route should it mean that my purchases become unusable at some point in the future. My concern over this matter is that if game purchases are tied to a particular SD Card or console unit, and one or both of these things eventually fail (as all things inevitably do), that some games may then become unusable. (Either altogether, or until going through unnecessary hassle to inform merchants or developers that I did indeed purchase a copy of their game, prove that I did, and so on and so forth.)

 

[Eolair]

I'd have no problem paying £30 for a good PSP/DS port. Now, I'm not saying that PSP games are that good, but still there might be one or two that are

Edit: Any Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusion ports would see me handing out £30+

 

[thejustone]

£15 (boxed) sounds about right to me, but I don't think they will be that cheap.

 

[craigix]

The Pinball series would happen if gamepark didn't owe money to the gp32 dev... oh well. Always emulation for those I suppose.

Commercial games are already under development. A lot of software houses are just curious about what they could charge if they port over their games to see if its worth it.

 

[God Ginrai]

I'd love to see some of the PSP games ported over to the GP2X. Not only because of the fact that some of the PSPs games ARE good, but also because I could wave my GP2X with the game in front of the faces of my friends who spent $250 for a PSP. ;P

 

[deadlychicken22]

Would many commercial PSP games run on the gp2x? The only good one I can think of is lumines (and that game would definitely be awsome on the gp2x!)