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Lexis Numérique Open Facebook Poll to Help Decide Pricing for Amy

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Lexis Numérique Open Facebook Poll to Help Decide Pricing for Amy 1

Next week, VectorCell’s adventure horror title Amy will be released on both the Playstation Network and XBox Live Marketplace’s in a number of territories. However, it seeems that some people have noticed a discrepancy between the XBox Live and PSN prices in the US with the PSN version costing $12.99 and the XBox version only costing 800MSP (Around $10). For what they claim to be about 8 to 10 hours of gameplay, the prices are good but some have still questioned the value difference. The following comes from José Sanchis of Lexis Numérique and describes the discrepancy quite well:

During the whole development of the game, we tried to be as transparent as possible on our decision making and we believe this situation is a good opportunity to explain what is at stake. It’s also a very good opportunity to involve the community in order to decide on the final price of the game in the US. First of all, we believe AMY is probably one of the most ambitious games on the PSN and XBLA. With 8 to 10 hours of gameplay, an innovative approach to the survival horror genre and a level of graphic details rarely seen on downloadable console titles, Paul Cuisset and his team at VectorCell created a very unique game. We decided to have a new approach to digital distribution by proposing heavy content at a very reasonable price because we believe price is a key issue, especially during hard economic times. Indeed, we believe AMY could have been sold a little bit higher. However, the issue we have to deal with is that a price in MS points doesn’t have the same value in all countries. Indeed, because of fluctuations between the dollar and the euro, 800 MS points are currently worth $10 in the US but €10 in Europe, which is about $12.8.

As we have the same price in MS Points in all countries, there will be a difference of pricing whatever decision we make between countries and/or platforms. The pricing scheme we announced enables everyone to buy the game at a reasonable price with great value for the money, with an even greater deal for the XBLA gamers who indeed have it cheaper. This level of price is a tremendous effort and risk for independent teams like VectorCell and Lexis Numérique, all the more as we invested probably much more money in AMY than many console games available in digital distribution. But because we didn’t explain the situation, we understand the reaction of certain US PSN gamers who don’t understand why they should pay a little bit more than their friends who play on XBLA.

However they will be offering gamers the ultimatum to keep or change the pricing system they have in place. To continue on with what José Sanchis stated in their most recent press release:

We even decided to go further . Now that the community has the elements to understand why we proposed this price scheme, we want to involve as many players as possible to tell us what to do with the price in the US: do we keep the current situation (800 MS Points for the XBLA version and $12.99 for the PSN version) or do we cut the price and margin for the PSN version (800 MS Points for the XBLA version and $9.99 for the PSN version).

Therefore, they have now opened a Facebook Poll which can be accessed HERE in order to determine if the old pricing structure stays or if they introduce a price reduction to $9.99. However, going from what the poll has stated, the games release on the PSN will be postponed at least a week in North America due to logistic constraints so this is something additional to take into account. The survey will remain open until the 9th Janaury 2012 at 12:00PST. Personally, three dollars differences wouldn’t make all that much difference to me and I would consider it a “tip” to the developers who have obviously been hard at work developing this promising looking horror title which both the XBox360 and Playstation 3 sorely needed.

As of this post, the results stand as:

Lexis Numérique Open Facebook Poll to Help Decide Pricing for Amy 2

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