Microsoft to release Platinum Hits

Highlander67 · Feb 11, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/02/11/microsoft.xbox.reut/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/02/11/microsoft.xbox.reut/index.html</a>

It seems that they will release games at a discounted rate of $19.99 to combat Nintendo's "Player's Choice Line" of console games.

They only weird thing though is that to qualify as a platinum hit, the game has to sell 300 to 500 thousand copies. That seems awfully week for a greatest hit. The thing that kills me is that Halo will not be reduced in price. The only game that seems to be sellign well on the system.

Solid Snake · Feb 11, 2003

I already posted this over two weeks ago!

Takumaji · Feb 11, 2003

Highlander67:
[...] The thing that kills me is that Halo will not be reduced in price. The only game that seems to be sellign well on the system.

Well, you answered it for yourself, it's still selling well for $49, why should they lower the price, makes no sense.

Hm, guess I will buy Project Gotham Platinum then. PGR isn't as good as MSR DC (I don't like the new Kudos system), but it's fun, and $19.99 a pop seems okay to me.

dullbuoy · Feb 11, 2003

i was lucky enough to get Halo at best buy for $39.99 last year. it was only on sale at that price for 1 week before going back up to 49.99

rarehero · Feb 11, 2003

i got halo for 29.99 at best buy during a week
or month sale of it. its a good game and all.
but hell. they ought to make it a greatest hit.
anyways.
halo 2 will come out later and they ll have to lower
it regardless.

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btw.
you ll notice that all the platinum titles mentioned
are titles that have been at the price point of
19.99-29.99
for the last 3-4 months anyways.
the gc ones actually being lowered though for the first time.

<small>[ February 11, 2003, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: rarehero ]</small>

Takumaji · Feb 11, 2003

rarehero:
[...] btw.
you ll notice that all the platinum titles mentioned
are titles that have been at the price point of
19.99-29.99
for the last 3-4 months anyways.
the gc ones actually being lowered though for the first time.

I'm happy that they are about to lower game prices. I'm in Europe, and over here they even sell the old games for no less than 44 Euros, but mostly they try to sell it for 59 Euros, fukn greed, that's what this is. oh_no

Thank god there's a HUGE Xbox used games market...

rarehero · Feb 11, 2003

thats something i never really did understand.
its pretty lame.
i remember going to masa and seeing lots of cool
nintendo games back when i was around but the prices?
woooo...
but that was ages ago.
one would think that it would get better with the
games getting more mainstream.
sorry though.
frown

samuraiX · Feb 11, 2003

The greatest hits games are filtering out now. I saw 2 of them yesterday at Toy Werks and at Target. Keep an eye out.

evil wasabi · Feb 11, 2003

If you think 300k - 500k is sad for a greatest hit, think that the PS2 and PSX games only need to sell 100k while Nintendo's Players Choice games have to sell 1 million. Although the lower sales number is better for consumers who want cheaper games its a sad testament to the quality of games produced for XBox and PS2.

evil wasabi · Feb 11, 2003

They're finally coming out?

The latest issue of the Official XBOX Magazine reported on the Platinum Hits line.

Platinum Hits = More Sales for Microsoft!

dirtboy69 · Feb 11, 2003

those numbers do seem kinda small when looking at the same ones sony and nintendo use but you also gotta remember that x-box isn't selling all that great now is it

Plisken · Feb 11, 2003

Xboxes are selling like hot cakes everywhere but japan.

and am i the only one that doesn't like Greatest Hits/ Platinum Series /Players Choice e.t.c???

Usually the game has been out long enough to drop in price, i remember buying Ridge Racer on the PS1 for £5 new, and the GH/Platinum version came out a few weeks later for £19.99. Also , the artwork takes a hit. I could live without them.

<small>[ February 11, 2003, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Plisken ]</small>

evil wasabi · Feb 11, 2003

Plisken:
Xboxes are selling like hot cakes everywhere but japan.

and am i the only one that doesn't like Greatest Hits/ Platinum Series /Players Choice e.t.c???

Usually the game has been out long enough to drop in price, i remember buying Ridge Racer on the PS1 for £5 new, and the GH/Platinum version came out a few weeks later for £19.99. Also , the artwork takes a hit. I could live without them.

I'm not big on the Greatest HIts collections either...I try to stick with the first print stuff myself whenever possible.

The DC was notorious for its hideous red/orange color scheme on their "Greatest Hits" collection games.

dirtboy69 · Feb 11, 2003

the dreamcast sold enough copies of games to make it to greatest hits damn i thought that system lost out big time

Highlander67 · Feb 11, 2003

lithy:
If you think 300k - 500k is sad for a greatest hit, think that the PS2 and PSX games only need to sell 100k while Nintendo's Players Choice games have to sell 1 million. Although the lower sales number is better for consumers who want cheaper games its a sad testament to the quality of games produced for XBox and PS2.

Only 100,000 need to be sold to be a greatest hit? Wrong, the games that become greatest hits have to sell at least 750,000 if memory serves me correct. That's alot more impressive then the couple hundred thousand games that X-box has to sell.

As for Nintendo, 1 million copies seems like a decent acheivement.

Bluevoodu · Feb 11, 2003

oddly enough though.. we have yet to see a Zelda: OOT , or Zelda MM greatest his

†B†V†

Shapermc · Feb 11, 2003

dirtboy69:
the dreamcast sold enough copies of games to make it to greatest hits damn i thought that system lost out big time

oh_no oh_no oh_no oh_no oh_no

Solid Snake · Feb 11, 2003

Bluevoodu:
oddly enough though.. we have yet to see a Zelda: OOT , or Zelda MM greatest his
†B†V†

Zelda:OOT did become a player choice title a little over a year after its release! Zelda:MM came to late into N64 life cycle to be concider a Players choice title.

BTW here's the entire list of Platinum Hits' titles:
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding
Blood Wake
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
James Bond 007 in Agent Under Fire
Max Payne
Oddworld: Much's Oddysee
Project Gotham Racing
Rallisport Challenge
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Simpsons Road Rage
Spy Hunter
SSX Tricky
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Star Wars: Starfighter Special Edition
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Wreckless; The Yakuza Missions

Bluevoodu · Feb 11, 2003

it said "player choice" on the box? I never did see them.....

Odd..

Also, it shouldn't matter how late they come into play.... if took forever for Zelda for the SNES to become a Players choice... it was close to the N64 time... or at least for the Players choice version to be distributed.

†B†V†

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