Sony wouldn't. This is the exact same as a retail sale. Sony gets money from the licensing of the sale unit the same as a disc. Honestly the little amount Sony loses by not facilitating the transaction themselves is probably more than made up for from additional sales from a different outlet.
Kotaku introduces the Amazon Playstation Network Store
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darkjedi187
Member
This is wild!
tried to buy puppeteer, it directly ask for my credit card informations and no billing address or something else, after that the checkout screen appeared, no billing address field or anything, just this message
and a greyed out purchase button
That's because your credit card is associated with non-US address on Amazon. Associate one of your credit cards with US address and it should work.
So yeah, for non-US people, you need to at least assign one of your CC to a US address within your Amazon account.
It has nothing to do with shipping address. You need a US BILLING address on the card.
Your options are to either us a billing proxy service, or if the service gives out actual codes give a friendly US GAFer some money and have them buy the titles for you and send you the codes. Which btw I and probably many others would be happy to do.
Your options are to either us a billing proxy service, or if the service gives out actual codes give a friendly US GAFer some money and have them buy the titles for you and send you the codes. Which btw I and probably many others would be happy to do.
works! but i'm not feeling well using a random address in the us ._.
iamshadowlark
Banned
various people are reporting it working with european billing addresses.
I wish man. Amazon Canada is a piece of shit
Like the hat?
Banned
Does this mean b2g1 includes digital titles??
Callibretto
Member
For some reason, amazon didn't double check your billing address. I have asia CC with asia billing address, but when I put US address as my billing address in amazon, the transaction still went through. Amazon didn't check if you put the correct billing address or not.
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
Are you sure about this? Where was this confirmed? I'm thinking that Sony may still have a say on prices even on amazon's storefront.
I wonder how key distribution works. Does Sony give out keys as requested to publishers without any store fees like Steam does? If so then those publishers will be able to negotiate their own prices with Amazon.
I hope Sony is not a middleman in any of the pricing because that would obviously make pricing far less flexible.
We'll be looking at £59.99 for most 3rd party PS4 titles on the UK store, mark my words.
Yes I am sure. If Sony had any control over pricing on this...... What would be the point of it? This is the same thing as buying Steam keys on a store other than Steam. Sony wants to make it MORE attractive to buy digital games. Not the same or even less compelling to do so.
I do wonder if this means Sony is allowing devs/pubs to buy their own codes. Apple does this by allowing all devs to pay Apple's 30% cut and being able to buy as many codes like that as they want. Would make the most sense and then the devs/pubs set their own price in the Amazon store.
Cornbread78
Member
Wow... Just wow! Maybe this will fix their psn pricing too!
We already are. Fifa 14 PS3 is £59.99 right now.
Callibretto
Member
Well someone a couple pages back look for some price difference and there are a couple titles where amazon have cheaper prices. So the price is not fixed from Sony.
3rdamention
Member
Dead Prince
Banned
Don't worry. They'll be forced to shut down. It happened last gen where they just stopped selling digital psn codes but will use if they slip the price down secretly
Matarese171
Member
As Bradach mentioned. I actually used the Alaskan airport address and it seems to work for me. When I get home from work will create a us Psn account and try.
That's jumping the gun a bit. Maybe those Amazon discounts are Sony-approved discounts or Amazon loss leader discounts. Only time will tell how consistently good discounting will be.
grin and bear it
Neo Member
Wow, this is such great news! If only I my bandwidth wasn't restricted. *cries*
Sloane_Ranger
Member
I said God-Damn Sony! Well played, and great for all gamers.
You don't check the PSN store very often, do you?
zeopower6
Member
PS Store has lots of good deals...
I mean I got like 4 JRPGs for like 10-11 bucks a while back.
If Sony/Amazon put their DD servers within your ISPs network as I think Netflix do, your bandwidth should be fine.
The Iron Yuppie
Member
Looks like this could shake out some decent deals down the line. Nice!
mentallyinept
Banned
Sony, you beautiful bastards have done it again. Still not going digital, but this is huge.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
unprecedented partnership?
Palette Swap
Member
So, given all 3 promotions ($5 off, B2G1 and additional $5 off), if I buy let's say PS3 CoD and AC IV, I can get Lego Marvel for free and $20 credit I can use later to upgrade the PS3 versions of CoD and AC to the PS4 versions?
All U.S. gamers
TomcatTheLion
Member
Glorious news. This makes digital purchases even easier.
thecouncil
Banned
im crying right now. this is probably the greatest thing ive ever heard. my life finally means something.
Boss Man
Member
so proud to b a gamer right now