LBP and BioShock drop to £8.95

Get ready, everyone. Here we go again!

I’ll start off: At least Bioshock’s been out for almost 2 years. What’s LBP’s excuse?

Aaaand….we’re off!

I’m not buying it until it’s £1 with free postage.

Next week, then?

£1 would be a good deal. I got LBP free with 6 proof of purchase labels from boxes of Fruity Pebbles.

This must mean that no one along the chain is making any money on LBP.

they didnt’ even at 19.99 I reckon

“At least Bioshock’s been out for almost 2 years”

Not on the ps3 it hasn’t.

Everything’s dirt cheap after 6 months now. I’ve bought both Skate 2 and Prince of Persia (including the dlc) for a tenner in the last month alone. They’ll keep me busy until Killzone 2 hits under 20 quid.

Budget gaming is available if you’re not in a rush these days…

@Trav
Why? The dev team were small so production costs not as high as some. The game itself has already sold about 2 million copies. Every new copy in people’s pockets is more people to sell a load of DLC to as well.

It’s also easy to forget the less quantifiable benefits Sony have had from LBP. Not least a shed load of great press.

Also all too easy to assume *everyone* is buying the game is buying at Shopto and Zavvi one day events. They aren’t.

My DVD UK copy turned up today.

That was quick.

It is a bit mad how quickly prices come down. I got Burnout Ultimate Box and Trivial Pursuit (Xbox 360) for £16 total from SoftUK. Madness.

That’s a good deal. Because Zavvi no longer exist do they?

The rights to the Zavvi website were bought out.

I’d love to know if Sony are cutting the unit price…

Because 2 millions sales for LBP is a flop, amirite?

AMIRITE?!

Ignorance. It fuels the internet.

2 million sales from what Sony wanted to be the flagship title, that Sackboy was to be the face of PlayStation, isn’t very much in that context. Also, when you factor in the number PS3′s in the wild, is looks even less complimentary.

Context is key, innit.

Anyway, I’m off to play it. Tarra!

Nice “latest comments” abbreviation:

“2 million sales from what Sony wanted to be the flagship tit…”

not a flop bu certainly sales have gone real downhill real fast, otherwise why the price?

When you factor in a userbase of about 23 million and the fact that the game has only been out for six months, 2 million sales for a game *is* impressive. There’s only two or three titles on the format which have outsold it.

Not quite as impressive as say, Halo 3′s 8 million, but that’s been out for over a year and a half and the console also has about 7 million more users.

So yeah, in that context, it *is* quite impressive.

“not a flop but certainly sales have gone real downhill real fast, otherwise why the price?”

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re in the middle of a recession. The price of games are being cut all across the board, and LittleBigPlanet is not some special exception to the rule.

Everyone is simply looking at this article and immediately focusing on the “shock” value instead of actually looking at the context.

In fact, the sales have not “gone downhill real fast”. The game has sold steadily and regularly appears at a decent position in the charts, while other major titles have long since disappeared off the radar.

strange, I still see Mario Kart Wii at the very same price it was on day one. One sided recession eh?

The Darkness is on there for just under 5 notes too. I’ve picked up that and Bioshock, crazy prices all round really.

“strange, I still see Mario Kart Wii at the very same price it was on day one. One sided recession eh?”

Mario Kart Wii is still at the same price as it was when it came out because the Wii has more users than the PS3 and 360 combined, and it’s one of the highest selling video games of the last 10 years.

So no, it’s not really one sided at all. It’s called smart business sense. A business isn’t going to reduce the price of a product that continues to sell insane amounts at full price.

LittleBigPlanet is selling *well*. I never said it was the best selling game of all time.

Mike, just teasing you man. I know I noticed Wii Fit going down in price as well

but 8.95? I dont know man, I just doesn’t seem like recession is the ONLY factor here

“but 8.95? I dont know man, I just doesn’t seem like recession is the ONLY factor here”

It *is* the only factor. There are many more less popular (and even some major) games being slashed in price even faster than LittleBigPlanet have. I’ve already seen Resident Evil 5 in stores for €25. That’s just insane!

Mind you, this really can only be a good thing for the consumer in the long run.

I don’t think it’s the only factor. I think it’s because shops expected much higher sales and have a lot of excess stock that they need to clear.

Nothing to do with the recession at all. Unless you mean the recession is to blame for people not buying the game in the first place, but that’s not true either.

This is clearly a reflection of retail, not product.

Otherwise it would be a market-wide cut. Not a couple of retailers doing a one-day event.

Context. Not guesswork.

Clearly.

Seems like a market-wide thing to me but hey.

Can’t beat Bioshock for £3.49 off Steam at New Years.

But then again PC gamers are used to sharp falls in prices that console gamers don’t really get.

Yes Mike. If you insist on looking for one single product and talkikng about that same product in relation to price cuts you can present the notion that it’s all about the product.

I don’t suppose any other goods were being discounted at the vendors your scurried off to ‘research’ were there? Just that one product?

Better not provide links to that sort of stuff eh? Might not quite fit in with the selective way you want to present your information! Two of your links show you only searched for information on a single product. You also failed to link to the two largest game retailers in the UK! Excellent level-headed research there. Good job!

Still, when you’re so obviously focused on always challenging whatever a person says I can see how common sense and a sense of perspective can be fall by the wayside.

But hey.