Guess Why Bionic Commando: Rearmed Will Cost More On PC

By Paul Munn | August 9, 2008

Next week we’ll see Bionic Commando: Rearmed on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade and the most recent footage on the behind the scenes video shown on the PlayStation Blog looks like a whole lot of fun. The game will be ten bucks on the consoles, but it will also be showing up as a direct download on the PC for fifteen dollars.

Why is the game more on the PC? You have on guess, and it rhymes with, um, “hiracy”. Of course Capcom won’t admit that, no no their reasoning is even better than basic piracy. They say that it’s set at $15 because most PC digital download titles are $20. Basically the market expects it to be about that, so they’re charging that. We’ve seen what rabid frothing nutjobs people turned into when Braid showed up at $15 on the XBLA last week even though it’s supposedly an excellent, high-quality title, so perhaps this logic cuts both ways. The $10 price point is what people expect from console download services.

Another strike against the piracy argument? It doesn’t matter how much you charge if pirated copies are avaliable on day one. Just ask, oh hey, Capcom again about their other big-name recent PC release: Devil May Cry 4, which has done rather poorly at retail and had a day-one pirated version online.

Seen on Kotaku.