Hawk-eyed PS Retailer customers appear to have discovered a quite fascinating sample of sport costs once they go on sale. Utilizing retailer monitoring web sites, gamers have found that a variety of video games go up in worth after hitting their lowest sale worth, then stay on the elevated worth level in subsequent PS Retailer gross sales.
Do PS Retailer sport sale costs have a life cycle?
This dialogue was just lately introduced up on Reddit, the place a participant used PSPrices.com for instance that sure video games randomly go up in worth, then stay at that worth in nearly all promotions that comply with.
I made a decision to check this myself by checking older titles with a major historical past of gross sales. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, for instance, hit its lowest worth of $1.99 then rose again as much as $3.99, and has remained at that worth level since 2023.
Killzone: Shadow Fall’s lowest worth was $4.99 and has since been elevated to $9.99 in all promotions as of 2021, excluding two PS Plus unique reductions (notice: the sport isn’t on sale for the time being). Equally, Notorious: Second Son’s lowest ever worth in a sale was $7.99, which then went as much as $9.99 in subsequent promotions and stays there each time it’s on sale.
I’m certain this isn’t the case for each single sport on the PS Retailer nevertheless it’s an fascinating sample to notice. Gamers have a number of theories as to why this occurs, however the one that stands proud essentially the most is the concept that a sport is unable to draw new gamers after a sure level no matter its worth, and people who actually desire a particular title will make a purchase order regardless.
So whereas these video games are closely discounted from their retail worth, their sale worth will probably stay the identical in each promotion as soon as Sony determines their time’s up.
