Click here for more info, and to pre-order PSN Day 1 Digital titles
The month of October is an exciting one for PS3 gamers, with a plethora of AAA titles hitting store shelves over the next four weeks. I’m excited to announce today that eight of the hottest upcoming titles will be available on PlayStation Network the same day they hit retailers through a new program called PSN Day 1 Digital!
To celebrate the launch of this new program, we’re giving you access to participate in “digital game launches,” so you can get your hands on great games releasing in October, without having to leave home. We’re also giving you the chance to pre-order select games ahead of their release date and offering 10% discounts on a number of titles for PlayStation Plus members.
This new program aims to bring you the best PS3 titles digitally through PlayStation Network. Throughout the month of October, we will be offering the following titles for download on day 1:
Resident Evil 6
(Available for download on October 2nd – $59.99)
NBA 2K13
(Available for download on October 2nd – $59.99/$53.99 for PS Plus members, with pre-order)*
Dishonored
(Available for download on October 9th – $59.99/$53.99 for PS Plus members, with pre-order)*
DOOM 3: BFG Edition
(Available for download on October 16th – $39.99/$35.99 for PS Plus members, with pre-order)*
007: Legends
(Available for download on October 16th – $59.99)+
Medal Of Honor: Warfighter
(Available for download on October 23rd – $59.99)
Need For Speed: Most Wanted Standard Edition
(Available for download on October 30th – $59.99/$53.99 for PS Plus members, with pre-order UPDATE: Pre-order before 10/30 to gain Limited Edition content for no extra cost)*
Assassin’s Creed III
(Available for download on October 30th – $59.99)*
* Available for pre-order
+ 10% discount for PS Plus members during first week of availability
We have more exciting info on all these titles to tell you about in the coming weeks, so be sure to check the PlayStation.Blog each week for in-depth posts on these games. And let us know in the comments which Day 1 Digital titles you’ll be downloading on release day!
Couldn’t we have some XCOM love as well? :)
Will this be live the LittleBigPlanet Vita same day release? I’m still waiting for the download after it hit stores 9 days ago.
@42 i agree that we should at the very least get the preorder bonuses awarded to retailers. If not, then the really is no point in getting it digitally.
Once you start giving us BONUSES for Pre-order, then I start buying games on DAY 1 from PSN. Whats the deal with FULL PRICE of $59.99. They are Digital COPY not HARD COPY! They should be cheaper.
@26 It is idiotic. Look at every other digital platform and you will see, when compared to their retail counterpart, there is a small discount or none at all. While Sony, and any other company for that matter, would love to give us a great value while still making a decent profit they still have to be friendly with big box retailers. They can’t tell the Wal-Marts and Best Buys of the world to sell their games for $59.99 while they sell them for $30 on their own store. This dynamic will be here until console manufacturers no longer rely on retailers to move units. Also selling the game though the PSN store at a regular or slightly discounted price isn’t a “rip off”, selling it for more than the competition would be. Get over the mentality of thinking digital copies are less valuable than physical. There are pros and cons to both that weigh each other out.
Wow, great initiative on your part Sony! Now, just kick it up a notch by taking IGN’s GameOverGreggy’s advice and offer pre-release day downloading of the games so we can activate and play them at midnight of release day. Love the Plus discounts too!
@49 publishers don’t seem to get that. I’ll even take the crappy store credit Gamestop gives me over paying $60 for a psn game and not being able to do anything with it once i’m done.
Nice almost competes with my Amazon Pre-Order:
Dishonored
1) $52.86, release date delivery ( it usually arrives before PS Store Updates)
2) Exclusive Amazon DLC
3) Free Shipping (I’m a prime member so ya)
4) Doesn’t unnecessarily use Hard Drive space that I can use for games like Ratchet and Clank Full Frontal Assault and game installs.
5) No Annoying DRM system or waiting to download the game.
The 2nd, 5th, and maybe 4th can be resolved. Obviously PS Store exclusive DLC would be nice, but not necessary. Discs could also be sold through the store, I don’t know why they aren’t. DRM can be fixed, but the download time can be mitigated with pre-release downloading with activation upon release at 12:01am PST/PDT (I’m on the east coast btw) or an automatic download earlier in the day for PS+ members.
$6 Discount, no sales tax, and people are still complaining about it being to expensive. The lack of sales tax can be saving you upwards to an additional $5.40, assuming that sales tax in an area doesn’t exceed 9%. Then you add the discount on top of that and you’re knocking $11+ altogether in some areas of NA. Guess nobody bothers to see it that way though.
Nobody promised you cheaper digital licenses either. The pricing model has been set and PC games are starting to come out at $60 for a game as well (retail or not). If you have a problem with it, you might as well not buy it. It’s really all that simple.
This is exactly what I want. Kudos to Sony. Love the all-digital library on the Vita and I hope that this trend continues. No reason that brick-and-mortar retailers like GameStop should have a stranglehold when we have the technology to deliver content straight to the home and put a larger share of the profits in the hands of the people making the games.
nice… i just wish this would work on all past games…. oh well… at least i won’t have to pay tax… so retail disk can **** it now.
@54 blah…blah…blah. We get it. Its my right to disagree with terrible pricing practices. You can insult me all you want. You aren’t important enough for me to care sorry.
Too bad that AC3 doesn’t have a discount for Plus though.
WHAT? $59.99 for a digital download? I rather buy a physical copy.
I like this and I hope that this becomes the future. All games should be release digitally on day 1. I am okay with the price. Please now release Street Fighter x Tekken, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as digital too.
Digital sucks.
Great job Morgan and the rest of the team you guys are really stepping it up and delivering some great stuff digitally. I hope our instinct games collection doesn’t suffer for it?
Next month
oh not at all; Plus is a totally separate thing from this stuff.