A ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update Special – SCEE Festive Sale 2010

OH OH OH Merry Christmas! Santa’s arriving on Wednesday =)

Sonic the Hedgehog and Lara Croft, I will own you!

I don’t think I could possibly feel more gutted than I do now…

I bought Sonic 4 a few days ago for £9.99… Don’t suppose there’s much chance of a rebate? *cries*

HOLY SHOOT

I’m only writing here as there are no other avenues where there’s a chance an employee will read it (not that SCEE care anymore).

Europe is one of Sony’s most successful regions. It’s more successful here than in North American (where the 360 remains king), yet over, and over, and over, and over, again Europe get treated so poorly.

I’m refuring to the BFBC2 Vietnam Map Pack, and the NFS:HP Map Pack. Not only does the 360 launch both of these products WORLD-WIDE on the same day, but Sony, giving another “eff you” to Europe releases both the DLC packs in North America and Asia on the 21st December….and Europe on the 22nd.

Why? Give me one genuine reason why, once again, Sony forget about Europe? I am so sick of Sony. Over 20 of my friends have given up, sold their PS3, and moved to the 360. I stuck it out. Stayed with Sony. But now? Now I’ve had enough.

Must be tough being such suck ups to publishers. Being Activision’s and now EA’s little female dog is obviously taking its toll.

Think i’ll be picking up Sonic Adventure DX add-on and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Might POSSIBLY get Pac Man or Death Spank later

>> Europe is one of Sony’s most successful regions. It’s more
>> successful here than in North American

hardly.

2010 PS3 software sales:

US: 54.5m
EU: 45.9m

also, traditionally US retail games release three days before the UK, so what difference does one day make for DLC?. in regards to the BFBC2: Vietnam pack it is irrelevant as you won’t be able to play it until the european PS3 servers get updated – EA’s european servers for MoH and BFBC are located somewhere in the randstad in the netherlands if i remember correctly, so everyone in europe will be playing at the same time.

Nothing intrest me either. Most of the good games here I already have or have played.

@Twistedintoform

Don’t know where you’re getting you’re numbers from. According to you, Sony have sold over 100 million units lol.

As of Sep 2010, PS3: 41.6 million units WORLDWIDE! But the PS3 is dramatically more successfully in Europe and Asia.

In the US, PlayStation 3 – nearly 12 million as of 14 April 2010.

In Europe, 16 million as of 14 April 2010.

@Twistedintoform:

Just re-read your post. I appologise. Your figures are for software sales. But that perfectly explains my point. A lot of gamers in Europe own both the 360 and PS3. But because Europeans get software anything upto 6 months later than the US, people are just buying it for their 360.

I have. I’ve just bought BFBC2 Vietnam and the NFSHP DLC for my 360. Why should I be forced to wait? I’d rather give my hard earned money to a company that treats Europe with the respect it deserves than to a company that doesn’t. How is that petty?

Obviously I’m not the minority. As PS3 units in Europe exceed the US, but software sales in Europe are weaker, that obviously means customers are buying their software for a different platform; ie: the 360.

I spend over £2000 a year on software, for both the 360 and PS3, although the PS3 had always been my lead console. But as of today, now I’ve bought BFBC2 and NFSHP for the 360, that will no longer be the case.

hey ross come-on i’ve been asking about wild arm1,2 for 2 months now and still i get no reply i just wanna know if us people of the eu will be getting it as i know that they have wild arms 1,2 in the us but why not here there are some people that play RPG here too

any word for smackdown vs raw 2011 DLC Pack 2? suppose to be out today.

So you won’t spoil tomorrow completely for us, but you will give us info on what will be reduced XD Andything new coming tomorrow, I wonder? I understand if you can’t tell me though

So are there no new stuff this week, just offers?

>> A lot of gamers in Europe own both the 360 and PS3. But
>> because Europeans get software anything upto 6 months
>> later than the US, people are just buying it for their 360.

sounds like pure speculation to me. the difference in hardware units is not that much when compared to software units.

2010 European software sales:
PS3: 45.9m
XBox360: 37.7m

(for comparison, the Wii is top with 47.1m)

so you decided to buy another copy of BFBC2 because you couldn’t wait 24 hours for a map pack?. bully for you. you might have had more europeans to play against on the PS3 version though.

most major multiplatform games sell better on the PS3 in europe. recent examples (PS3 sales first):

Black Ops (3.0m / 2.6m – despite 30-day dlc exclusivity for xbox)
FIFA (2.8m / 1.8m)
Assassins Creed : Brotherhood (1.1m / 0.8m)
Medal of Honor (0.8m / 0.6m)
NFS: Hot Pursuit (0.5m / 0.4m)
BFBC2 (1.0m / 0.9m)

however the PS3 and xbox360 have the same problem here when compared with the US.. overall software sales per hardware unit are much weaker. (there are anomalies of course – obviously FIFA does *much* better here on all the consoles, and GT5 has done much better here than the US).

>> So are there no new stuff this week, just offers?

the store update is wednesday (tomorrow), just like it’s been every week for… a year now?.

there’s supposed to be demos for LBP2, mass effect 2, dead space 2, among other things.. ross will tell all in the morning.

what about the new prices?

ive been there and its not available yet!! : S

Some great bargain there…. Even if I have got most of the games on release at full price!!
But you should see some hugs sales there with those bargains!!

Think I’ll pick up…
Lara Croft, Deathspank 1&2, Space Invaders and Sonic 4!!

Can’t even think whats been left for the New Year sales??
Good work!

Any chance of seeing a PSN chart??
It’d be interesting to see regular charts of who’s buying what !

That should be ‘huge’ sales…. Not hugs!!!!
What no edit button still !!!

What time can we expect the update, 4/5pm ish UK time?

@Twistedintoform
You certainly like to copy and paste sales figures.

Everyone (interested) knows the PS3 is stronger in the UK, and Europe, than the 360. What’s your point?

Look it’s…s i m p l e. Sony have sold more PS3′s in Europe, than any other territory. But lets use American market as an example.

12 million PS3′s in the US.
16 million PS3′s in Europe.

Yet the software sales figures (that you so expertly *yawn* pasted) far exceed in the US than in Europe. Wy? It’s not due to the lack of money. PS3′s are more expensive in Europe, than US but we still buy more of them, so why do Europeans spend less on games? The don’t.

For example, of the 67 (European) friends on my PS3, 64 of them own 360′s. And of those 64, 59 either buy for the 360 or for the PS3 from the US store, rather than wait (sometimes indefinitely) for software to release in Europe.

Yes your figures *yawn* show that PS3 software sales are better than the 360 in Europe. Anyone with half a brain wouldn’t expect less. But the s-i-m-p-l-e fact is, Europeans are spending their money elsewhere….and surely even you can understand why?

So it’s 22nd now and I can’t see any reduced prices. Am I perhaps looking in the wrong places ?

I´m with Zenbucket.
I can not find any SCEE Festive Sale banners or acknowledgement of their excistence in the PSN Store.

Is this because we´re both from Scandinavia, and once again, we´re left out of deals like this?

Disappointing if true, but certainly not unexpected.

The sale is up now, but both Valkyria Chronicles 2 and Phantasy Star Portable 2 is full priced. o_O

Oh dear I went ahead and spent too much :p

Where on the store do you download ‘Tales Of Monkey Island episodes 2-5???

I’ve got the demo for ep1, and have bought the ‘Complete season’ which is supposed to be the 5 game bundle, but i just can’t see the other 4 episodes…

Or am I just blind???

Merry christmas. and thanx for the discounts. this is how games should be priced. fair.

I bought:

Tomb Raider: Underworld
Space Invaders: Infinity Gene

Where are the 10 other pages with comments that were here? Is this digital sensurship I smell?

Hey Ross I had a little problem when I bought Need for speed hot pursuit super sport pack DLC for more in the details please go to this link

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/4548982.page#11344922

Th anks
and
Merry Christmas

Hey Ross/ PSN guys,

Where are the 4 remaining Tails of Monkey Island episodes?
The US store has them but we don’t, is this just an error from a while back or are they being released soon?

Another paying customer unhappy that despite buying Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season only the first episode seems to be avaliable to download.

Where did Tales of Monkey island go?
I can’t even find anything else then the trial version of episode 1.
And I can’t buy anything from inside the trial version.
This was the only thing left on my list I wanted from the x-mas sale.