I just happened to see some PSN DLC track prices for both Rock Band and GHWT on a Kotaku article, and they left me rather puzzled. You would have thought that these prices would be fairly homogenised by now, but bizarrely enough I found no fewer than 3 different prices, depending on what system and game you were looking at. Here we go:
“Police Truck” by the Dead Kennedys (Rock Band)
XBOX Live Arcade price: £1.36 (160 points)
Playstation Network price: £0.99“Hold Up” by the Raconteurs (GHWT)
XBOX Live Arcade Price: £1.36 (160 points)
Playstation Network price: £1.49
In both cases these are full-price tracks – Rock Band regularly has 50% discounted tracks (sometimes time limited) but I’ve ignored those. All the other full-price tracks seem to follow the same pricing structure.
So, some observations:
- On PSN, a full-price track costs 50% more for GHWT than for Rock Band.
- On XBLA, a full-price track costs the same for GHWT and Rock Band
- PSN prices for Rock Band tracks are ~25% cheaper than XBLA
- XBLA prices for GHWT tracks are ~10% cheaper than PSN
I could attribute the differences between XBLA and PSN on exchange rates, since the PSN I believe starts from USD in all cases, whilst XBLA uses it’s own ‘funny money’ with a fixed exchange rate, but that doesn’t explain why PSN has a 50% difference in price between GHWT and RB. Overall, very odd.