Sunday 15 August 2010

Collectors/limited edition games

Last week saw the announcement of the Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops. It comes with the game, a custom Black Ops limited edition medal, exclusive Black Ops Avatar outfit, four playable cooperative maps and a remote control surveillance car. The price you may ask? £129.99. I have to admit that i sometimes am a sucker to collectors edition and would be willing to spend some more money/or pick the collectors edition if the game came with decent extras for example, the limited edition of Tekken 6, which came with a hoody altogether for £70 and the Alan Wake collectors edition which came with book packaging and a bonus dvd which was for the same price as the standard edition. But spending more than £100 for a game and an extra which is no more than just gimmick? No thank you. I would rather spend less money on the standard edition of a game and not have to use up some space to store a gimmick item which does not benefit me at all in anyway. I do not mind if collectors editions come with extra in-game content, but if they come with extras like remote control cars which do not affect the in game experience then i believe that publishing companies are just trying to milk as much money as they can from big franchises like Call of Duty in order to maximise their revenue. Activision have already been down this path last year with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, releasing a £100 Prestige Edition which came bundled with a pair of night vision goggles and many other companies are following suit. Gran Turismo 5 is also being released with a "signature edition"  which includes a model car, a leather wallet, USB key, metal key fob and two books for the price of £149.99. Although prices are extraordinarily high, many people will still buy it, but will I? Nope, ill be sticking to the standard editions.

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