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PSP games not much more expensive than DS games
Think PSP games are expensive? You'd be wrong. Things have changed greatly since the system's release more than two years ago, with the $50 price point for some UMD games a thing of the past. Curmudgeon Gamer took a look at the upcoming releases on both handhelds, and noted that only one game currently has a $50 MSRP: Oblivion. The average cost of a PSP game is $29.89, only $2 more than the DS average of $27.29. Curmudgeon Gamer has a few other interesting statistics: EB Games lists 102 new games for the Nintendo DS and 94 new games for the PSP. There's no games for PSP? Incorrect. The median game price for each system is $29.99 About 33% of all PSP games retail for under $25. (DS has about 41%.) This doesn't come as surprising for long-time PSP fans. Hopefully, the rest of the gaming world will soon understand that although PSP games feature better graphics, they don't have to cost more.
Charting the seven seas of video gaming [Update 1]
We referenced this in an earlier post, but it's such a brilliantly useful idea that we thought it deserved a post of its own. Curmudgeon Gamer posted a chart that maps out the price of 26 major game consoles at launch, showing both the sticker price and the relative price today. It's a great idea (that I wish I had thought of) that puts the Xbox 360 and PS3's prices in perspective. If you think in terms of relative pricing, Nintendo has been reducing the launch price of its consoles for the last 20 years. Will it continue that trend with a $200 Wii?Read - Absolute Console PricesRead - Relative Console PricesUpdate: We've hosted the image on our own servers to save Curmudgeon Gamer's bandwidth. Check out the read links above for the charts.
