Bionic Commando Remake Hits PC, Steam Thursday; Costs $5 More Than Console Versions
"$14.99 represents an appropriate price for the platform and you should probably expect our PC pricing to always be slightly higher than the console equivalent in this space," noted Capcom business development and strategic planning VP Christian Svensson.
Original Story: Bionic Commando Rearmed, GRIN's enhanced remake of Capcom's classic swinging platformer, will hit PC on August 14, community manager Gearoid Reidy has confirmed on the game's blog.
Available through digital distribution platforms Steam and Direct2Drive, the PC version will sell for $14.99--a $5 premium over the $9.99 PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 releases. No reason was provided for the price hike, though publisher Capcom has previously complained about the effects of piracy on its PC releases.
The downloadable PlayStation 3 edition of Bionic Commando Rearmed arrives in the PlayStation Store next Thursday, the same day as the PC version's debut, while the downloadable Xbox 360 version will be available next Wednesday, August 13.
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replyok.. so you complain about piracy.. then make your pc product more expensive than the console counterparts? who is going to buy the pc port now?
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Me. :)
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yeah I was going to get the steam version but now I'm just going to get the 360 version
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I'm not getting it 'cause they treat PC gamers as second grade customers, 5$ price hike just because of being released on PC. And then they complain of bad sales of their other crap games.. and they'll again complain of pirating this game despite all of the reasons for it selling lower than console counter-parts, which will have nothing to do with piracy but to much greater extent people getting it where it's cheaper and the fact it's just a remake of an old game..
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I'm buying it.
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I think its a mental reason to hike the price and am almost tempted not to get it on the PC and get it either on my 360 or ps3.
Only thing is the PC version will allow for graphical tweaks so I will end up getting it, careful Cap don't piss off your fans.
I really hope sales are huge so more game are made with this engine and from Caps old school 90's classics
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This thread sounds vaguely like an excuse to not buy a game you probably weren't going to buy anyway. $5 crosses the line, *really*?
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Yup.
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I think people are going to see it, and either buy the console version, or just torrent it, because of the price difference, unless theyre people like you who have been waiting for this game and will gladly buy it 5 bucks more to support the game
Im just saying I see pc gamers using the price difference as an excuse to torrent it-
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Yeah... I was waiting for this game for a while now and I'm happy that it's being released soon. But charging more while mumbling some rubbish about piracy kind of rubs me the wrong way... I might reconsider buying it... 15$ is not too much (if this damn thing will cost 2x the price on Steam UK I am not going to buy it!!! never!!!) but it just kind of feels wrong that they want to charge PC folks more *without any reason*...
