Hasbro Family Game Night is this week’s XBLA release kicking off Microsoft’s “Days of Arcade” with rampant price gouging. Of the titles in the set 4 have been released today. Battleship, Connect 4, Scrabble [the worthiest of the bunch!], and Yahtzee round out 4 of the 7 games with 3 additional titles being released later this year, Sorry!, Sorry Sliders! and Boggle.
To much dismay each game has the once rumored price tag of 800 points [$10] per game. I guess that does not stop some as I saw one commenter over on Major’s blog already paid $10 for Connect 4. Yes $10 for Connect 4.
Also Sorry! to anyone outside the US/Canada, Scrabble is only available to North America.
The HFGN “Room” is free to download and can be found here. The full marketplace listing can be found here.
-Dexter “Outinthedark” Thompson-
[Source MajorNelson]
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March 18, 2009
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It's Hasbro.
March 18, 2009
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Thanks…don't know where that additional O came from!
March 19, 2009
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I think this is a really good and creative idea by EA. These board games are classic and should be fun to play on XBL.
March 19, 2009
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Have you played them? When I tried out Scrabble [the only one I am interested in] it gave my tiles away to my opponent! You cannot play the game in local mode! Kind of drops the "Family" aspect if I can't play the game proper at home.
Out of the 4 released I see Battleship being the winner. The water graphics for the board are kind of interesting but $10 sorry gotta pass on it. The collection is $20 on the PS2 and $30-40 on the Wii…if you buy it XBLA you are going to pay $70.
This is not a creative idea by EA it is blatant price gouging.
March 19, 2009
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Yep, technically I'll have to give it to them. It's done well as far as the presentation and such, but after you get passed that and see the price it's a bit much to swallow, especially for Connect Four. Looking at the overall price point, something like Braid, Portal: Still Alive, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Peggle, and Geometry Wars 2 can all be had for less or the same amount.