Because it fell in line with what Hello Games was charging on other SKUs, including digital and Steam. I agree the game isn’t worth $60. With all those refunds, I honestly hope/expect to see black friday sales of the game, including digital, at about $20.

And Sony could’ve charged $60 for the special edition too because you and I know that the game is not worth an AAA price tag….but guess what, it was Sony who said they’re treating it like triple A title and they priced it accordingly.

They made this deal a couple years ago, so yeah they knew the game was bad, like all games two years before launch, but they bet on Hello Games coming through and making an interesting game based on the tech demo they saw.

I do absolutely agree though on the indie thing. Sony should have known better than to trust an indie dev to deliver a $60 product. It’s just not reasonable to assume they could do it.

That makes sense. But I mean why would Sony sign a deal with Hello Games? Sony HAD to know how bad this game was, because they surely had some Q&A info from tests. So I can’t see them washing their hands from all the blood. However, they may not have anticipated this behaviour by Sean Murray when they first made a deal with him. So it mighta been too late for them to pull out once they knew about this stuff. I’m not bashing Sony, but they need to ensure they’d never sign a deal with an Indie for a pricetag of $60 again.

Right except it didn’t matter what Sony wanted as it was ultimately Sean Murray who decided 2/3 of the retail prices which in effect means he dictated all three retail pricepoints.

No, the game wasn’t the embodiment of Sony greatness and influence if such a thing even exists. If it did, those qualities would still be there. Further, Sean Murray certainly didn’t have a Sony-esque polish. Sony’s “brilliance” in their inability to rein Sean Murray in and dictate terms of the release and pricepoint is the reason Sean Murray was allowed to essentially lie about what the game was. Sony gave the stage to a salesman who didn’t come off as a salesman. If anything Sony was just as likely hoodwinked as anybody up until the final delay.

Of course Sony made a special edition and charged $80. If Hello decided to charge $40, there would be a $60 special edition. If Hello charged $20, there would be a $40 edition. The fact that it’s $80 instead of any other number is irrelevant so long as it is $20 more than the base game. The only way it becomes evident that it was Sony pushing is if Hello decided against Sony’s wishes and charged $40 or less and Sony still charged $80. There’s nothing in the special edition that dictates the value needs to be set at least $80 to turn a profit.

“Abortion that is NMS” lmao. Good point tho. Even if Geoff spoke to Sean and he said he wants his game to be 60 bucks, that doesn’t mean Sony didn’t want the same…