{"id":4506,"date":"2008-06-12T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4506"},"modified":"2013-03-13T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T01:09:43","slug":"psp-games-get-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/psp-games-get-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP Games Get Price Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6177\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6177\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6177 \" alt=\"Now more expensive.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Gangs-of-London-PSP-S.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now more expensive online.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JUNE 12, 2008 \u2022 Premium PSP titles republished via the online PlayStation Store are seeing anywhere from a $1 to $11 increase in price. Games seeing the increase included: Ape Escape, Gangs of London, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee, Kingdom of Paradise, LocoRoco, SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo, Twisted Metal: Head-On, and WipeOut Pure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Digital distribution may be a convenience feature to satisfy immediate demand, but it currently does not offer a great savings over traditional retail when it comes to price.\u00a0 Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee costs $16 as a PlayStation Store download and $20 to buy a physical copy from Amazon.com.\u00a0 However, the digital copy requires a Memory Stick Duo and takes up 441 MB.\u00a0 Considering that a Memory Stick ranges from $15 to over $30 per GB.\u00a0 For some\u00a0 titles like SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 2 and The Con, it was cheaper to buy the physical copy at Amazon.com than it was to buy the title online from PlayStation Store.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 12, 2008 \u2022 Premium PSP titles republished via the online PlayStation Store are seeing anywhere from a $1 to $11 increase in price. Games seeing the increase included: Ape Escape, Gangs of London, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee, Kingdom of Paradise, LocoRoco, SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo, Twisted Metal: Head-On, and WipeOut Pure. Impact: Digital distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}