![]() It's by a small margin, but these two are representative of the hundreds of titles that come to PlayStation at a premium. Yet both these titles will still be cheaper to buy on Steam. On Monday, we heard that acclaimed indie game Fez and highly anticipated Vlambeer title Luftrausers will both ship on PS Vita and PS3 in March (Fez is also arriving on PS4). ![]() Because for all the good work Sony done to modernise its publishing policies, the company's position on digital pricing is still holding PlayStation back in the digital market. That's why the execs at Sony should be paying attention to Valve's move. ![]() Meanwhile on PS4, you can pay $19.99 for the same game" "Valve slashed 85% off the excellent puzzle-platformer Trine 2, pulling the price down to just $2.99. Steam is still the digital example to aspire to PlayStation's premium While Valve is probably too shrewd to let this become a race for the bottom after the manner of smartphone games, it will almost certainly result in a vast library of games reaching new levels of affordability.Īs I write this, more than 130 games have been discounted on Steam: developers have been quick to experiment with price drops and see how they affects the bottom line. Many developers, understandably eager to seize the spotlight in front of an audience of more than 75 million PC gamers, will give in to the temptation to go low, driving others to go even lower.Īnd on it will go, much like it did on the App Store and Google Play, until games are sold at fantastic (perhaps unreasonably cheap) prices just to stand out from the crowd. So why does this matter to PlayStation? Because Valve has just triggered a downhill sales race on Steam. Game developers have been quick to experiment with price drops to see how they affect the bottom line." "Even as I write this, more than 130 games have been reduced on Steam. The project is developed by RogueCode and is now available for playtesting.PSN downloads are far more expensive than PC equivalents Cut, cut, cut Speaking of Heist Simulator, it is a tactical simulation game about planning your own heist on the way to steal England’s treasures. However, we can only imagine the scale of the problem and headache if the outage had lasted much longer. He later went on to say that the “last hour has been pretty traumatic.” Fortunately, the store was back up shortly after. “Genuinely can’t believe this whole game announcement was riding on people being able to download it via Steam, and Steam has just full gone down as we announced,” No More Robots head Mike Rose wrote on Twitter. Summer Feast Green Man Gaming July 22, 2021 So… is Steam down? All right then, Plan B it is. Publisher Green Man Gaming also paid attention to the issue, joking about going back to playing 3D Pinball as a Plan B. Play it *right now* as part of Steam Playtest: Introducing Heist Simulator, a break-in sim from and unlock and steal everything, then build and share your own heists! It was supposed to be available for a playtest right after, but that’s when Steam went down, ruining the publisher’s plans. Yesterday, No More Robots announced new game Heist Simulator. Interestingly, it even affected game developers. Many users started to share screenshots of crashed websites, trying to figure out what was the issue. However, the company itself claimed that the disruption wasn’t caused by a cyberattack on its servers, and it was caused by a bug in the domain name system (DNS) service. Later on, an outage was linked to Akamai, as many of the websites and services mentioned above used this platform. So what was the reason behind this issue? The list includes PlayStation Network, Airbnb, Ally Bank, British Airways, as well as many banking pages, brokerages, and games like Fortnite and Warframe. However, Valve’s online store wasn’t the only service that got crashed. Many users couldn’t access Steam yesterday, seeing a “DNS failure” error.
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