Games for PS3

[iMav]

Priced at $59.99

Games on PS3:

SCEA Launch Titles
Resistance: Fall of Man
NBA 07
Genji: Days of the Blade

Third Party Publisher Titles
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Call of Duty 3
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
F.E.A.R.
Full Auto 2: Battlelines
Madden NFL 07
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE
NBA 2K7
Need For Speed Carbon
NHL 2K7
RIDGE RACER 7
Sonic the Hedgehog
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Untold Legends Dark Kingdom

Source

 

[[xubz]]

Rs. 3000 Per Game...

 

[iMav]

xbox 360 games are around 2-2.5k fixed price for all titles

 

[[xubz]]

xbox 360 games are around 2-2.5k fixed price for all titles

And PC Games cost Rs.1500 (Max. 1800) Everywhere..

 

[tinku dhar]

im gonna wait till PS3 tooo got the MODified Chip and ....

will play PIRATED games ..... thts wat can i do LOlz

 

[hemant_mathur]

The games are way too costly

 

[tarey_g]

im gonna wait till PS3 tooo got the MODified Chip and ....

will play PIRATED games ..... thts wat can i do LOlz

This is what rest of India is been doing since the time of ps1 followed by ps2/xbox and now xbox360 is available with fully functional mod chip(read on digg just 2 weeks ago). 59$ is nothing to the US ppl as much it is for Indians considering the buying power of Indians and the $ to Rs conversion. totally killer combo. even xbox360 for 20/24k is a bouncer.

 

[akshayt]

The games aren't costly at all. They are just 2-3times compared to PC games. That is just fine if you want to buy orignal stuff. The consoles are dirt cheap already, where do they get the money from, the games offcourse.

Do you know that the cost price of Xbox 360 for MS is 1200$, yet it sells for such a low price at a loss, who is gonna fill that loss. PCs on the other hand costs lacs over the long run, about 10-20 times as expensive as your consoles. What is more expensive then?

I feel Sony and MS are stupid to even launch these in India. They will loose more money than they would gain. If for each console sold, they need to sell even 10 games to just neutralize the loss, there won't be enough people who would result into buying 10 times the number of orignal games, so you basically go in to a loss. Rather ,not do business in India.

 

[ctrl_alt_del]

If that's how every company starts to think, then there would be hardly in any high-end product available in the market. Why would Nokia bother to launch its high end mobiles? Why does Mercedes deems it fit to launch it's top-line cars in India? Why a host of high lifestyle goods are tripping over themselves to set up shop here? Simply because slowly but surely Indians are getting that moolah to go in for all these things.

This is the same thing that I used to hear when original game titles began to retail in India...that the price is to prohibitive and that pirates rule the roost and that the retailers will fold up pretty soon. But, see they have stuck only because there are people out there who are willing to pay the extra buck to have an original game, not to loose out on multiplayer functionality or just to make sure that they do the right thing.

Same will go for the X360 as well. One who has the money to buy the console will surely have the money to afford the games as well. Maybe they wont buy 10 titles a month, still they will buy games, good games as and when they can afford. Sure, India wont shoot MS profits through the roof, but assuming that they will incur losses in India and hence not launch products there wont be a wise decision.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

The games are being shipped on the much hyped Blu-Ray media & Sony might be trying to peneterate the market with agressive pricing strategy.They will most surely have to cover up their benefits in the first few months in most countries after which they could probably think of a substantial price drop.Since the console got priced a bit higher it was fairly evident that Sony wouldn't make its games any cheaper.People must begin to think from the effort that the developers have put to make these games rather than cribbing every now & then for a price increase.Scaling such massive games for a console so powerful is no kiddies job.The US,European and Japanese markets are the main areas which would somewhat accept these prices but when they start shipping to India then I doubt any huge sales.

 

[iMav]

well if there are ppl who can buy macs, branded pcs, ati/nvidia grafix cards and only need to play games they will shell that kinda money coz i hv played the xbox 360 and the grafix and all are really good more over ability to watch movies play music .... there was a time whne rich ppl used to hav high end pcs but didnt know how to use em ..... now those guys will start buying consoles and as far as losses are concerned yes sony and ms are gonna incur losses worldwide not just in india .... but then again if u see itc's biscuit division is also loss making at the same time best's bus division is loss making but ppl are using it the companies are running it ..... and today india has so many millionaires who are illiterate as far as technology goes ..... so they will just pay up they dont care. i know of ppl who hav ipods - dont know how to use it ..... so it dont matter to ms or sony .... even if their console division is loss making they will conyinue to infuse money in it and 1 day it will become profitable ..... only time will tell

 

[tarey_g]

The biggest problem for the nexgen consoles in India is the absolutely nil presence of HDTV's in India , If i somehow buy a nexgen console i wud like to play the games on a HD display , the cost of the HD display is too much for a buyer who barely brought a nexgen console. when consumers dont get value for what they pay they don't go for it(unless they are some of the uber rich). Secondly both the nexgen consoles are all about online functionality, and the broadband scene in India is to horrible i need not to explain. Third thing is that 60$ for them(considering the buying power) is 500-700 Rs for us , so if the games were available in this range from day one of its release then maybe an avg Indian wud be able to buy one game a month or two. But 3k is something that not anyone can spend , when the US/europe ppl are crying out loud fearing a 59$(direct conversion approx 2700 INR) then how do u expect an Indian to react who has to pay even more than 59$ with avg incomes of middle/upper middle class much less than the western countries.
Buying a console for 20k is something else but buying 3-3.5k games everytime is certainly is not for masses in India , and the business depends on the masses.

 

[akshayt]

No, you are wrong. In India the sale of high end phones might not be much, but the company gets a net profit as it doesn't loose anything. But launching MS in India is a net loss of money.

Imagine yourself as the owner of a company, what is better, to have the product popular in rich countries and getting a 1M$ profit per month or having it popular through the globe with a profit of 0.5$ per month, after the losses you bear.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

HDTV's are now being advertised all over the place due this so called "High Definition" era.Check Samsung for example,it necessarily has to have a whole page dedicated on the newspaper advertising about it's dropped prices of 32" Brodeaux LCD HDTV's with a HD DVD player free.Not only Samsung but Sony,Panasonic,Philips,Haier and heck the names of some companies which I haven't heard in a lifetime have cropped up all of a sudden promising HDTV compatibility.This means that India has got the glimpse now but its only time a matter of time till they become standardised like your daily CRT's.The price which used to soar in Lakhs has now come to about 74k-90k for normal 32 inch models (Higher displays of course would command premium).

Now coming back to PS3,I think the console itself being steeply priced would attarct low crowds at start in India but evetually pick up as soon as the price comes down.Avg people would again wait and wait for a mod chip or a firmware hack to be released and rely on cheap bootlegged copies of games (If they ever make it that early).

 

[[xubz]]

Brodeaux LCD HDTV's with a HD DVD player free.

Um.. They're normal DVD Players with HDMI Output.. they're NOT HD-DVD Players.. They LOVE Marketing Gimmicks I Suppose..

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Ya I know thats how they are actually advertised.Upconverting the standard DVD's to HD resolutions is what they claim.This is one thing that I really ought to see.

 

[tarey_g]

These companies are doing total fraud , they can't use the term HD DVd player for these kind of players , Even if u chk ebay these are called Dvd upconverting players. The player samsung is calling as HD DVD player in India is called 'Samsung DVD-prod_code up-converting HD DVD player' , they can do that here in India coz no one sues them like in US where the consumer is very alert and the legal system is effective. It will take time for HD displays to penetrate Indian market as the consumer has no solid reason to buy a HDTV, the tv telecast in India is done on low res possibly 320x240 and the 320x240 in a hd display looks horible , i saw that on a television shop, the dvd's will look better but thats the only reason , so the adaptation is going to be slow .

 

[tinku dhar]

This is what rest of India is been doing since the time of ps1 followed by ps2/xbox and now xbox360 is available with fully functional mod chip(read on digg just 2 weeks ago). 59$ is nothing to the US ppl as much it is for Indians considering the buying power of Indians and the $ to Rs conversion. totally killer combo. even xbox360 for 20/24k is a bouncer.

ya i know welll ... ,

u guys may be Seein XBOX 360 after its release Rite ... im seein it in ma Place with MOD chip when after 6 months it was release in International specially CHINA JAPAN lolz

 

[ctrl_alt_del]

@akshyat: One advice. Please read my post atleast once before going all "No you are wrong" stuff. I never disagreed with the fact that MS wont face losses here in India. Hell, they have been facing losses in Japan ever since Xbox. What I was disagreeing with the fact that it would be stupid to not launch a console in a developing market just because there might be a loss. Please get the context in which a post is made before shooting of.

 

[iMav]

akshyat ..... MS and sony both are facing losses in the console division .... worldwide