Gaming News More expensive than 5 years ago! This PS4 video game took advantage of the PS5 State of Play to increase its price… by 20 dollars!
Seven years ago, after releasing the latest State of Play, Playstation changed the price of one of its games released on PS4 and this did not go unnoticed.
PlayStation changes the price!
Lately, Horizon Zero Dawn hasn’t stopped talking about it. Barely a week after announcing its remaster, Sony has quietly doubled the price of the game on the PlayStation Store from $19.99 to $39.99. A change that didn’t go unnoticed, but was noticed first VGC this Thursday.
A strange strategy from the company, especially since the PS4 game is part of the Playstation Hits collection, along with other titles such as God of War and The Last of Us Remastered, all of which have long been sold at the same price of 19.99 dollars. without it being moved. A price change that comes, surprisingly, shortly after the announcement of the remaster, which, we remind you, will cost $ 9.99 for all owners of the base game if you want to update it to enjoy it in better conditions on PS5 and PC.
Everything for remasters
In reality, Playstation’s plan here is pretty simple: Invite players to directly purchase the new version of the game instead of purchasing the basic version at a low price and then purchasing the upgrade, which would cost $29.99 instead of $49.99. However, this is not the only price increase from Sony. Recently we remember the price of the DualSense controller, which has increased by around 5 dollars in the entire mode, from 69.99 dollars to 74.90 dollars. If we ignore the official reasons for such an increase, one thing is certain: the players, who already find the controller expensive, did not like it at all.
A price increase that is annoying and doesn’t exactly help PlayStation’s reputation when it comes to remasters. We can cite the first The Last of Us, released in September 2022, which was a remake of the first remaster of the game, originally released on PS4. One thing players didn’t realize was that the old remake was sufficient in itself. In any case, Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered will be released on November 15th for 49.99 dollars, ten dollars more than the base game currently available on the PlayStation Store.
