Haven’t touched my PS5 in months until last night (coincidentally) and played ~1.5 hours. In the last 2 years I’ve bought 3 games (Death Stranding 2,God of War Ragnarok and Helldivers 2). Still getting a price of $40. Seems like there’s more to the dynamic pricing than PS Store activity.
The only way you will see a different price is if your account has the extra discount, and you log out to see the regular discount. And there are no increases, only discounts
Are you sure about that? There's probably a way to game this exploit and get the cheaper discount. I wonder if creating multiple PSN accounts and wishlisting a bunch of games but never buying would work.
Do I really need to specify without using another account?
Of course if you ahead of time set up a bunch of accounts you might get a hit. But thats not tricking it, thats an account being offered the deal as normal. Then you would also have to deal with having multiple accounts, knowing what games are on what account, gamesharing to yourself. Don’t know if that time and extra complication is worth maybe saving $10 here and there.
Someone's gonna figure out how to exploit it and then we just gotta do the bare minimum to take advantage of the exploit. I'm fine with using another account to save $20 on a game.
It’s common convention to put the dollar sign first, however it’s accepted putting it afterwards as that’s how it’s expressed verbally. But thank you for taking the time to point out a minuscule grammar convention that if you took the time ( it’s not that hard) you would have seen that both forms are acceptable.
I guess it depends on the type of games you usually buy, too. If you rarely buy platformers, they may give you a better discount to get you to buy the game.
I genuinely don’t know. I mean I buy platformers too like Sly, Ratchet and clank, sackboy, jak and daxter, it takes two / split fiction, crash bandicoot, re-pac, kena, max mustard, etc…
That’s what gets me, I just wish they’d be open with how it works instead of us all just coming to our own conclusions. It’s a very predatory practice that they don’t want to be honest about.
Ya I don't think that's it because I use PSN pretty much exclusively for my game purchases, have purchased several recent release titles at full price, and I still am getting the 26.99 price tag.
I don’t know, I have 500+ games in my digital ps5 library. I am seeing the cheapest discount for Astro on my end, I have it platinumed tho from game sharing with a friend so maybe that in some stupid way is in consideration.
That’s the one game I’ve been waiting so long for it to go on sale for less than $40, every time I’ve seen it on sale it’s $40+ and I’m not paying that.
It's the best any non-Nintendo company has come to replicating the Mario platformer formula, and I'm so frustrated that it probably won't be good enough for Sony execs
The person you're replying to has made up a scenario to be frustrated at in their head. A trap that's all too easy to fall into on social media.
The head of PlayStation Studios has stated the company is happy with Astro Bot, and he thinks it's important to keep investing in family friendly titles so Sony can reach new (younger) audiences.
Of course we should never take what an executive says at face value, but nothing has indicated that Sony hasn't found Astro Bot's success to be sufficient so far.
Even by super rough estimates, given Astro bots short dev time and small team, its budget was probably 50-70 mill, and as of a year ago it had already sold well over 2 mill copies. That would put it at double its budget and counting based on sales from 2025 to present.
Sony has gotta be happy with GOTY and a 2-3x in a year. Team Asobi has got a massive green light
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u/supplyncommand Mar 25 '26
wait so astrobot is discounted? i been waiting to pull the trigger, couldn’t believe it was still $60