Burnout soon to be Downloadable on PSN

Post by TurboMan (415 posts) See mini bio

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at the price point of $30 it will be on the PSN soon with all the updates

there's no reason not to buy anymore

(and yes, this is a big deal, suck it Gamestop)

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Lies (2,385 posts) See mini bio

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Man, that is TOTAL SHENANIGANS. It's a pretty big step for digital distribution to see a "full" game like Burnout going up for the same price as at retail. Way to go for the Criterion guys.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Patchinko (571 posts) See mini bio

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Sounds good to me.

I didn't upgrade my HDD for nothin'.

And Burnout rocks.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by mjwickstrom1 (133 posts) See mini bio

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This is a great idea by Criterion, but as a 360 owner I'm sad to see it's not coming to the Xbox Live Marketplace too, even though I already own the game.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Kush (6,795 posts) See mini bio

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This is the perfect kind of game for digital download, but I still (and will always) prefer physical copies.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by AndrewGaspar (1,799 posts) See mini bio

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Lies said:

"Man, that is TOTAL SHENANIGANS. It's a pretty big step for digital distribution to see a "full" game like Burnout going up for the same price as at retail. Way to go for the Criterion guys."

Warhawk's already done it. ;-)

But it's the first third-party game to be released both retail and on the PSN and be the same price.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by ShaggyChu (98 posts) See mini bio

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Besides the fact that we already own the game, this would be useless to 360 owners. As someone who likes a hard copy of things, with the dash update coming this fall, Burnout Paradise will be the first or second game I put on my hard drive.

Although, this makes me think that MS will have this come next spring update. They already have Xbox games on there, so it's totally possible. I wouldn't expect to see Paradise in the first wave though (Halo 3, Gears 1, launch titles). ;)

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Post by somesthetic (127 posts) See mini bio

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I'm not sure how I feel about full size games being downloadable.

warhawk was fine because it was just the multiplayer component of a game, but things like Siren and Burnout Paradise might be better owned on a disc.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by KindGalaxy (296 posts) See mini bio

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Might buy it this way, loved the previous Burnout games, loved the demo, just loved alot of other games last year that caused me to skip Paradise, might grab it as DLC... doubt it... especially if it's at retail price

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by solidphoenix (224 posts) See mini bio

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Nice step by Criterion Games. This is a step in the right direction for increasing the acceptance and use of Digital Distribution.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by ShaggyChu (98 posts) See mini bio

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KindGalaxy said:

"Might buy it this way, loved the previous Burnout games, loved the demo, just loved alot of other games last year that caused me to skip Paradise, might grab it as DLC... doubt it... especially if it's at retail price"

It's only 30 US dollars for the download. With all of the free content out and still to come (well, it'll all be out by the time this is out) for the game, that is quite literally a steal.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by karubah (11 posts) See mini bio

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This is truly cool news. Makes me really think about buying it for the PS3.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Scizorz (26 posts) See mini bio

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Its a smack in the face of gamestop and its another way of the game publishers to stop you trading in the game.Its awesome though.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by mjwickstrom1 (133 posts) See mini bio

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I would think most people would rather have the game on disk since it would save them around 7 gigs of hard drive space, and it would prevent any possible issues the game could have being the first full game on the PSN. This idea will make some money, but not as much as people expect.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by TEAMHOLT (189 posts) See mini bio

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Burnout Paradise is a ridiculously good game, even if you don't care for racing games. If I can still get a good trade value for it on Goozex when it hits PSN, I'd rather get rid of my disc copy for the DLC version. Faster load times, not having to deal with taking a disc in and out of the system, and just having less clutter all sound worth it to me.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Jackel2072 (213 posts) See mini bio

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I have played a lot if it on the 360 but never bought the game. I will how ever buy it when comes out for PSN.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Post by Doobit (23 posts) See mini bio

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Has there been any update on the ETA for this? Can't wait!

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

Post by SpaceInsomniac (414 posts) See mini bio

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I have no idea why people are so hyped about this. For the same price you can own the game on an actual CD that comes with a book and a case. It would be nice if the downloadable version was $20 and the retail was $30 or something like that, but with this you're actually paying the same thing but getting less.

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

Post by DazbotAthertron (620 posts) See mini bio

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mjwickstrom1 said:

"This is a great idea by Criterion, but as a 360 owner I'm sad to see it's not coming to the Xbox Live Marketplace too, even though I already own the game."

A lot of people only have a 20G hard drive.

Kush said:

"This is the perfect kind of game for digital download, but I still (and will always) prefer physical copies."

Yep discs ftw.

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

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