Posts Tagged ‘Pricing’

PS Vita Games Starting at $5

February 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Playstation Vita | No Comments »

More PS Vita news today. As we are currently at the PS Vita Launch in The Netherlands, we just read at Venturebeat that PS Vitagames will pr priced between $5 and $50 depending on what you are shopping for.

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Unlocked iPhone 4 Prices Surface

July 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last night, pricing information for unlocked iPhone 4 devices in Canada and Belgium were revealed. It is to be believed prices will be similar in all countries in the same market.

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Glu Shares Peaking Again

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Over the past 52 weeks, Glu’s (GLUU) shares have ranged between $0,55 and $1,84. Though the shares have been between $1 and $1,20 over the past few weeks, shareprices suddenly started to increase on Friday.

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The Marketing of App Store Economics

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Strange title? Perhaps. The story behind it is even more surprising. iPhone developers Tommy Refenes and Adam Saltsman made a horrible game and tried to market it by increasing the price instead of lowering it.

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3 AU to Sell the iPad

February 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Drei (or Hutchinson) Austria has confirmed the pricing of the iPad 3G on their networks. The device will be sold at

FreeAppADay’s Businessplan

January 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Jon Jordan is running stories on the business behind the FreeAppADay portal of ICS Mobile. Apart from giving away your game for free, there is also a heavy price to pay for the traffic.

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Google Drops Nexus One Price

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Following the bad sales results, Google has already started to slash the price of their Nexus One Android phone (which will probably lead to more dissatisfied consumers who paid full price).

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EU Fines D2C Channels over Scams

November 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following 18 months of investigation on 301 websites that sell mobile content, the EU has decided to fine a large number of direct to consumer channels over ‘Ringtone Scams’.

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PSP Minis vs. The Real Thing

October 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

With this story (which is much smaller) we conclude the vs. series for this week by looking at the full PSP games. We will however be keeping an eye on pricing strategies all over the PSN network.

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PSP Minis vs. PSone Channel

October 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Following our quick PSP vs. iPod review yesterday, we are taking a deeper look at the the competition which Minis is receiving from the classic PSone titles that PSN is offering gamers.