pc pricier ???

well, if it has coop online play ... better resolution ... custom content ?!
maybe it would be acceptable to pay 5$ more

waza

Uh oh, I'm seeing it now. "Sales from Bionic Commando: Rearmed for the PC was $15 dollars...shit."

Fadakar

Charging more for the PC version is actually backwards from how all other console/pc releases have gone.

Mommar

@Cabal17: and im pretty thats not worth an extra five dollars seeing as how all the assets are probably exactly the same.

stryker1800

@Kicken: I think Capcom rationalizes the upcharge by the better textures the PC version supposedly has over the console versions.

Cabal17

@Kicken: im wondering the same thing, surely it cant cost them more to get it on pc

stryker1800

What? Do they think adding 5$ to the cost will help any piracy issues they may have? What kind of bonuses will the PC version have to justify the bonus 50% cost? Surely doesn't sway me to buy it, or play it.

Kicken

my gosh, why is it the Europeans are always getting the shaft when it comes to PSN? somebody fire David Reeves.

Err..sorry for the double post...if it happens. ^_^

Jun581 won't give you tree fiddy!!

my gosh, why do the Europeans always get the shaft when it comes to PSN? Man, somebody fire David Reeves.

Jun581 won't give you tree fiddy!!

Wow, what a WHAMMIE. I have BC on my laptop?.

/asplodes.

PsycheE

Glad I don't have to wait. I can empathize with those that do, though.

peacefuloutrage

@Archaotic: Well, I'm not going to have much time for gaming after the twentieth.

InsidiousTuna

@InsidiousTuna:
Even if it doesn't, it's coming "in August", and there's not THAT much August left.

Archaotic

so aug 14 for ps3?

shichi

wow, now its on everything....but the wii :( ah well, im sure the pc version wont have any outlandish specs.

bigman88zz

Someone was saying that a Force Unleashed demo was coming the same week as Bionic Commando. Any truth to that? If so... Jesus. I'm going to have some high-quality gaming waiting for me when I get home from Mexico.

InsidiousTuna

Fuckin' SWEET. Good times ahead....sigh. :)

Fortyseven

August 13th, eh? That's soon!

sir_carrot

Awesome. That's all I can say.

MeleeKirby

@PapaBear434: get an emulator and play the old one.

stryker1800

I hope there's a demo. I'd like to try out this swinging/action/shooter thing before I buy it.

PapaBear434

@stryker1800:

MY bad. I thought this was the 3D one, not the remade one of the old version.

PapaBear434

who is the guy in the picture? the 69 rugby shirt with a finger in his ear. classy AND all business.

MisterMcThursday

@stryker1800: Advocating piracy? Nice.

Anyway, PSN version for me.

Struct09

@MisterMcThursday: The game's producer, Ben Judd. He is also the producer for the new retail Bionic Commando.

Spartan1308™

$10 or even $15 is such an amazing price for something like this. We pay two or three times that amount for nintendo DS games that may not be half as good as what this will likely be. That's a day 1 buy.

Poojipoo

Wow, that really encourages me to get a legitimate copy....

MentalNote

@Cabal17:
Well, games start out on the PC, so its not really extra work. And its not like they will have to make all new textures for a PC version, just use higher resolution versions of what they currently have. Really the only thing they would have to do extra is find a comfortable control scheme, optimize it a bit, menu system and such, make an installer, all normal stuff, and I would say it would be no stretch to say easier than porting a PC title to a console. You don't see that costing any extra, if you ignore the extortionate 60$ console game cost just because its harder to pirate those. There are plenty of games released for 10$ that are profitable and not even multi-platform.

Look at Audiosurf.

Kicken

And once again SCEE is sleeping on the release of a highly anticitpated title. Whatever, I will buy the XBLA version then.

Starsky

Can't wait to see this in my XBLA titles

Tha_Villain

@Poojipoo: That's exactly what I said about Braid.

I tell you, the month of August is like an early Xmas for LIVE Arcade. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Braid, Bionic Commando ReArmed, Galaga Legions and Castle Crashers.

Shmups have not really been my thing since the days of Radiant Silvergun (unless that is, someone wises up and ports Thunder Force VI and Gradius V to LIVE Arcade), so I'm opting out on GeoWars 2 and probably Galaga Legions as well. However, quality platformers and actioners are something that I have been dying to see hit the LIVE Arcade service since the very beginning on the original Xbox. And titles like Braid, Bionic Commando and Castle Crashers fit the bill perfectly. IMO, this is what the service was made for. It's a shame it took them this long to figure it out, but at least they finally did figure it out. Now they just need to make sure they continue to bring this kind of love to the service from now on.

Add to that, they can bring on some proper RPGs as well. Puzzle Quest was a surprising good start, but I want more - lots more. Why don't we have RPGs and action-RPGs similar to classics like Landstalker, Legend of Oasis, Secret of Mana and Shadowrun? Why don't we have platformers that harken back to classics like Strider, Ristar, Ghouls & Ghosts and Magician Lord? Actioners that remind us why games like Elevator Action, Shinobi, Flashback, Another World and Rolling Thunder 2 were once household names? And even God-games similar to Actriser, Populous and Magic Carpet. LIVE Arcade could be so much more . . . more RPGs, more platformers and more actioners . . . more variaty.

Titles like Braid and Bionic Commando: ReArmed are a good if not late start, but I won't be happy until LIVE Arcade feels like a 16-bit console . . . only in 720p with 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Let the glory days begin!!!

InvaderPhlegm

Does SCEE not realise we play games??

Shin-Kaiser

We are still waiting for 1942 Joint Strike...
Had it on my 360 for about a month now, also bet SCEE forgets to put a demo up for BC-R like they have for Super Puzzle Fighter, Toy Home, PixelJunk Racers & Monsters, Siren, could go on...
& to add insult to injury bet they gorge the price like Elefunk $5 in USA £5 in UK (nearly $10!)
*off to threespeech to moan*

Mr.Monkey

Woohha! If it is on STEAM, I will give 15$ without thought!

KroKan

15$ on pc+10$ VAT on steam= failure

zaagis

15 bucks on Steam.. seems fine to me!

CockroachMan

@Kicken: I never said it was not profitable or anything at $10, it was just the only reason I could think of why and how Capcom could try to rationalize and spin the higher price on PC.

Cabal17

XBLA version It is then! Already got 1000 points just waiting for this title

KEELr

So:

Console version 10$
PC version 15$

PC VERSION WILL SELL LESS BECAUSE OF PIRACY, THERE'S NO OTHER POSSIBLE REASON, PC GAMING IS DYING!!!

LordCiego

Wow Euro PSN gets potenially shafted again {at least it shows how un-organised they are}.

Zeouterlimits

Wow, wtf is SCEE doing? I don't live in Europe, but I was born there, so it would suck if I had to go with what SCEE was doing to my fellow brothers. I agree, either fire David Reeves, or Reeves should get off his fucking ass and do something with the European PSN.

tironabardheblu

The PC version will be Moddable, and come with a built-in level editor to make up for the price, right?

Ad-hominem

@InvaderPhlegm:

A man after my own heart.

Wanna start a game company that makes SNES/Genesis-style games in HD?

Prism Ra

This might be a good thing for the PS3 version. They might be taking the time to add the trophy support. There was a link somewhere that one of the creators was going to see if they could implement the trophies if it didn't take to much effort.

rupinderpaul

I really want to buy this, BC is one of my favorite games of all time, and one I still play regularly, but why the more expensive price for the PC download? It doesn't makes sense. Is there mod support, or a level editor in the PC version? Kotaku, please find out the reasoning for this!

Sir_NutS

@rupinderpaul: Umm, it's coming out on PSN everywhere else except Europe, so it's not a matter of putting in more features. It's more of a matter of SCEE getting off their ass and releasing the damn thing.

@Sir_NutS: More expensive price probably due to whatever agreement the Ben Judd struck with Capcom. IIRC, he fought really hard to get Capcom to agree to the $10 price point for consoles. At the time that the announcement was made, very few titles were over $10 on the console services. Capcom probably wanted more money and thought that people will still buy it on PC for $15. I will definitely be buying BC:R without demoing, day one, zero hour, to support Judd's efforts to bring BC:R to us at a great price.

kftgr

Prediction: Rearmed moves more units than the upcoming Bionic Commando game.

AtomicPlayboy

@AtomicPlayboy: Heh, yeah, I can actually see that happening.

DragonNinja