PSN Weekly Deals - 3/26: Huge Square Enix Game/DLC, THQ, PixelJunk, and Worms Sales!

FriskyTanuki · Mar 13, 2012

Welcome to the best thread for all of the deals on games, add-ons, and other stuff in the PlayStation Store both on and off of PSN.

Index
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Bundles
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Alternate Deals
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Current Deals (Full Update Here) - Store Updates Every Tuesday, Usually Between 4-8 EST

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Key: * - New This Week, * - Expires With Next Update, * - Permanent Price Drop, * - Cross Buy (Vita/PS3), * - Demo or Full Game Trial Available

Storewide Promo - For every $50 ($49.99 works) that you spend in any part of the PS Store that uses the PSN wallet for purchases from February 26 at 12:01 AM PST to March 31 at 11:59 PM PST, you'll get $10 back for every $50 spent around April 12, 2013 via your PSN inbox and your email. Meaning if you spend $100, you'll get $20 back and so on above that.

Bundles
BioShock Infinite & Season Pass Bundle - $79.99 **
Patapon Bundle - PSP/Vita - $14.99 -

Includes Patapon, Patapon 2, and Patapon 3

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Sega Fight Pack - $9.99 -

Includes Fighting Vipers, Sonic the Fighters, and Virtua Fighter 2

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Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl - $6.99 -

Includes ToeJam & Earl and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron

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Tales of Graces f: Knight Edition - $54.99 -

Full Game + 13 DLC items

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Pre-Orders
Defiance - $59.99 - Ends 4/2

PS3
Amy - $1.99 *
Costume Quest - $7.49 ***
Darksiders II - $34.99 **
de Blob 2 - $7.49 ***
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - $9.99 **
Foosball 2012 - $4.99 - Move Compatible ***
Game of Thrones - $24.99 *
Jeopardy! - $14.99 **
Just Cause 2 - $9.99 **
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - $7.49 **
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - $9.99 **
Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light - $7.49 ***
MX vs. ATV: Alive - $14.99 ***
Page Chronica - $6.99 **
PixelJunk 4am - $4.99 - Move Required *
PixelJunk Eden - $4.99 **
PixelJunk Monsters - $4.99 **
PixelJunk Racers: 2nd Lap - $3.49 *
PixelJunk Shooter - $4.99 **
PixelJunk Shooter 2 - $4.99 **
PixelJunk SideScroller - $4.99 **
Red Faction: Armageddon - $9.99 ***
Red Faction: Battlegrounds - $4.99 ***
Red Faction: Guerrilla - $9.99 ***
Red Johnson's Chronicles - $3.99 ***
Sleeping Dogs - $24.99 -

Includes Retro Triad Pack, Red Envelope Pack, and Street Racer Pack

Includes Swimsuit DLC

- Ends 4/16
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable - $29.99 *
escapeVektor - $4.99 *
Foosball 2012 - $4.99 ***
Persona 4 Golden - $29.99 *
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - $19.99 **
Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz - $14.99 **
Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition - $14.99 *

Free Vita Games
Cliff Diving - Free
Ecolibrium - Free
Fireworks - Free
Frobisher Says! - Free
Jetpack Joyride - Free
PlayStation Home Arcade - Free -

Includes Ice Breaker, Wipeout 2D, and Scribble Shooter Demo

Abstract Art - Dynamic
Assassin's Creed Revelations - Dynamic
Cuckoo - Dynamic
Daytona USA
Double Dragon Neon - Dynamic
Dragon - Dynamic
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit - Dynamic
The House of the Dead III - Dynamic
The House of the Dead 4 - Dynamic
I Am Alive - Dynamic
Infamous Festival of Blood - Dynamic
Jet Set Radio - Dynamic
Leap Year - Dynamic
Mesh - Dynamic
Mexican Skulls - Dynamic
PlayStation Plus - Dynamic
Robot - Dynamic
Samurai - Dynamic
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 - Dynamic
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Dynamic
Stripe Shift Part 2 - Dynamic
Tales from Space: About a Blob
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - Dynamic

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I'll be filling this thread out a bit more as we go and I'll answer questions whenever I can. Feel free to provide feedback for ways to improve this thread. Thanks.

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='PimpLimp']And this is what you see on the store before you add it to your download list:

[/QUOTE]
Alright, fine. I started up the download on my PS3 and the size specifically says 2977 MB, so I don't know what else you want me to do to prove to you that that's the actual size as it's stated everywhere else. I guess if you still don't believe me, we can defer to somebody who has downloaded it onto their Vita.

Tronny · Nov 20, 2012

Can anyone talk about the quality of Music Unlimited? Extremely tempted at $12, especially if I can stream on my iPhone but don't want to buy it and realize that the selection is shit etc.

PimpLimp · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Alright, fine. I started up the download on my PS3 and the size specifically says 2977 MB, so I don't know what else you want me to do to prove to you that that's the actual size as it's stated everywhere else. I guess if you still don't believe me, we can defer to somebody who has downloaded it onto their Vita.[/QUOTE]Lol I wasn't trying to start anything. If you look at the post I edited earlier, I'm actually downloading the game on my Vita right now and there's a patch/update that pushes the game over 3GB.

EDIT: And the only reason I'm even really nitpicking about this is that memory is precious on the Vita and while I had just over 3GB, it still wouldn't let me download the game.

Thrakker · Nov 20, 2012

Anyone else try Music Unlimited and have it fail miserably? Can't connect to the server on either my PS3 or iPhone, and if I try to login to the website, it's defaulting to Japanese, and not speaking Japanese, I can't figure out how to change it.

diplo · Nov 20, 2012

Doesn't Music Unlimited come with a 60 day free trial? It did at least before it was on sale for $12. Might be worth checking out if you're on the fence if it's still available.

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='PimpLimp']Lol I wasn't trying to start anything. If you look at the post I edited earlier, I'm actually downloading the game on my Vita right now and there's a patch/update that pushes the game over 3GB.[/QUOTE]
I don't think they take updates into account for game sizes since that changes over time.

[quote name='Tronny']Can anyone talk about the quality of Music Unlimited? Extremely tempted at $12, especially if I can stream on my iPhone but don't want to buy it and realize that the selection is shit etc.[/QUOTE]
I think you can browse the library here to see what's there.

https://music.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/

PimpLimp · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='FriskyTanuki']I don't think they take updates into account for game sizes since that changes over time.[/QUOTE]I didn't either but I just assumed that it might be different for Vita games as it was the only thing that made sense to me.

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

I think it's just a typo.

Tallest-Midget · Nov 20, 2012

Damn I'm out of memory on my 16 GB vita memory card. Looks like Sony is gonna get me to buy the 32 GB card after all. Just need to find one for a decent price.

ChunLiBarbie · Nov 20, 2012

Wtf? Is it just me or is Jet Set Radio for Vita broken? For tutorial and regular game, a menu or something keeps popping up. :bomb:

Soma_Cruz · Nov 20, 2012

I couldn't checkout with any of the freebies tonight, keeps timing out. I'll check again tomorrow.

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='ChunLiBarbie']Wtf? Is it just me or is Jet Set Radio for Vita broken? For tutorial and regular game, a menu or something keeps popping up. :bomb:

[/QUOTE]
Reboot the Vita and try it again.

ChunLiBarbie · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Reboot the Vita and try it again.[/QUOTE]

Yay! That worked! Thanks!

Kstyle · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Alright, fine. I started up the download on my PS3 and the size specifically says 2977 MB, so I don't know what else you want me to do to prove to you that that's the actual size as it's stated everywhere else. I guess if you still don't believe me, we can defer to somebody who has downloaded it onto their Vita.[/QUOTE]

Ok this is how it works
you download 3GB game and you have to update Uncharted (around 300 mb)
so I guesses if you install the full game it is 3.3 gb ish.

Thrakker · Nov 20, 2012

I think my issue may have been related to AdBlock, or else Music Unlimited was just having issues. Ended up logging in with IE, then I turned off AB on Chrome, and now everything's fine on all devices.

Kstyle · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='ChunLiBarbie']Wtf? Is it just me or is Jet Set Radio for Vita broken? For tutorial and regular game, a menu or something keeps popping up. :bomb:

[/QUOTE]

I had same problem
I restarted the game and its no longer bothering me

jgiovanni · Nov 20, 2012

How does GTA stories look on the Vista?

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='Warner1281']Are any of the downloadable PSP/Vita games playable on PS3?[/QUOTE]
Nope. Minis are the only PSP games playable on the PS3.

KingofGames · Nov 20, 2012

I see Persona 3 is still under the current deals section. Is that actually no longer the case? It's showing up as $19.99 in store. :whistle2:

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spydey · Nov 20, 2012

Decided to bite on Music Unlimited at that price.

mightymek · Nov 20, 2012

I think Music Unlimited is just having issues. Probably a few people purchased it or got the free trial and the servers weren't prepared...maybe. I had it error on my phone a couple of times tonight. But when it played, the quality was very good. As far as selection, they had everything I looked up so far. I did my old faithful check though...if my band was on it, then they have a lot of stuff...lol. And I typed it Scars of Life (my band), and two of our albums came up...so I am going to go ahead and say they have a nice selection. *cough* You should all do the Scars of Life check too *cough*

handsomepete · Nov 20, 2012

Sine Mora is pretty bad ass.

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='KingofGames']I see Persona 3 is still under the current deals section. Is that actually no longer the case? It's showing up as $19.99 in store. :whistle2:

([/QUOTE]
Haven't had a chance to update the OP yet.

thebytewasbit · Nov 20, 2012

Ok I have a ps3 but no psp or vita...can I purchase the free vita games from my Ps3 and transfer them to my vita whenever I get one?

FriskyTanuki · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='thebytewasbit']Ok I have a ps3 but no psp or vita...can I purchase the free vita games from my Ps3 and transfer them to my vita whenever I get one?[/QUOTE]
Yep.

thebytewasbit · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Yep.[/QUOTE]

Damn! PS+ just became even MORE valuable.

o0achilles0o · Nov 20, 2012

Ok, gotta vent. So I have 2 ps3s in the house, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. I downloaded walking dead episode 5 in the living room so I could play it after my son goes to sleep upstairs and the wife is chilling in the bedroom. So I realize that I played episode 4 on the bedroom PS3 and I need my saved game to continue. No problem, I'll copy it to the cloud and download it in the living room.

Only you can't download the saved game within 24 hours of uploading it. Ok, I'll copy it to a thumb drive, only my thumb drive is NTFS and I have stuff on it I don't want to delete. No problem I think, I have a fat32 hard drive I'll copy it to, but OH NO, the save is copy protected and you can't copy it to a flash drive.

Really pissed at this point I decide to swap PS3s but of course the living room is a slim and the bedroom is a fat, so I have to swap powe cables in an entertainment center and wind up finding a big-ass extension cable instead.

So I load up the game and realize that episode 5 was downloaded on the other goddamn system and now I have to re-download it on this one.

So I just typed this all up on my phone while waiting for episode 5 to download and install and now I'm gonna play the fuck

ing thing.

Grrrrr!

tylerh1701 · Nov 20, 2012

[quote name='handsomepete']Sine Mora is pretty bad ass.[/QUOTE]

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is also excellent. It just feels much better than the original on the PS3, which I actually enjoyed quite a bit as well!

dragonjud · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='mightymek']I think Music Unlimited is just having issues. Probably a few people purchased it or got the free trial and the servers weren't prepared...maybe. I had it error on my phone a couple of times tonight. But when it played, the quality was very good. As far as selection, they had everything I looked up so far. I did my old faithful check though...if my band was on it, then they have a lot of stuff...lol. And I typed it Scars of Life (my band), and two of our albums came up...so I am going to go ahead and say they have a nice selection. *cough* You should all do the Scars of Life check too *cough*

[/QUOTE]

Those with IOS devices note that there's no offline mode playback.

That feature is only supported on the Vita and other Android devices. Selection seems okay, and trying it, so I don't have to listen to my wife's Pandora repeat selection (fake channels) everytime she listens to music.

gubmccargen · Nov 21, 2012

I'm kind of late to the party with the newfound Vita love but, really, what an extra awesome value PS+ just became with the new Vita support at no extra cost. I went from very tepid interest in picking up a Vita to now planning to pick up a bundle on Friday from Amazon.

It's essentially paying $200 for an unlimited amount of future content and great existing Vita titles as I already would have continued my PS+ subscription indefinitely for the PS3 alone. I don't really plan on shelling out what I view as outrageous portable retail prices so my investment with the system would pretty much be done but I'd eventually get to play a bunch of games.

I was tempted by Music Unlimited for the great price but no offline mode on iOS? Thanks for the heads-up. That's a deal breaker to me.

MR_E · Nov 21, 2012

For anyone having trouble finding The Walking Dead Episode 5 in the store, Telltale wrote a walkthrough and posted links to it: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40218

Yes, that's right, the new psn store is actually so unfriendly and hard to navigate that the publisher of one of the top psn games of the year actually wrote and promoted a walkthrough FOR THEIR STORE.

xplode427 · Nov 21, 2012

The store says sonic bundle is unavailable for me to download because I already own sonic 2? That's terrible. Anyone else have this issue?

TimesTicking · Nov 21, 2012

Sony!!! We want the old PS Store back!!!

AllFrankedUp · Nov 21, 2012

Got Walking Dead episode 5 and bit on Music Unlimited. Time to test it out.

Slowdance · Nov 21, 2012

Does anyone know if any of that Disgaea 4 stuff is worthwhile? I haven't even opened the damn thing but I don't want to miss out on anything good. They have characters for sale? Seems weird.

wrencrest · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='TimesTicking']Sony!!! We want the old PS Store back!!![/QUOTE]
I agree, this new one is fuck

ing horrible to try and navigate when it chugs along trying to load all the pics and graphics.

wtsutton · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='o0achilles0o']Ok, gotta vent. So I have 2 ps3s in the house, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. I downloaded walking dead episode 5 in the living room so I could play it after my son goes to sleep upstairs and the wife is chilling in the bedroom. So I realize that I played episode 4 on the bedroom PS3 and I need my saved game to continue. No problem, I'll copy it to the cloud and download it in the living room.

Only you can't download the saved game within 24 hours of uploading it. Ok, I'll copy it to a thumb drive, only my thumb drive is NTFS and I have stuff on it I don't want to delete. No problem I think, I have a fat32 hard drive I'll copy it to, but OH NO, the save is copy protected and you can't copy it to a flash drive.

Really pissed at this point I decide to swap PS3s but of course the living room is a slim and the bedroom is a fat, so I have to swap powe cables in an entertainment center and wind up finding a big-ass extension cable instead.

So I load up the game and realize that episode 5 was downloaded on the other goddamn system and now I have to re-download it on this one.

So I just typed this all up on my phone while waiting for episode 5 to download and install and now I'm gonna play the fuck

ing thing.

Grrrrr![/QUOTE]

This whole post made me LOL. I agree. I hate the 24 hour requirement. Should be lifted in the case of copyright protected games.

And Episode 5 rocked.

tylerh1701 · Nov 21, 2012

Is $21.99 a decent price to pay for an 8gb Vita Memory card? Or can it be had for cheaper?

I know I should go bigger, but the 16gb and 32gb are so expensive. So I figured with an 8gb and the 4gb I got in my bundle, I'd be okay for now.

slowdive21 · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='tylerh1701']Is $21.99 a decent price to pay for an 8gb Vita Memory card? Or can it be had for cheaper?

I know I should go bigger, but the 16gb and 32gb are so expensive. So I figured with an 8gb and the 4gb I got in my bundle, I'd be okay for now.

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You may be able to find one on clearance at SEARS. They were 9.97, I believe.

vince_carter · Nov 21, 2012

damn, i can't wait to buy The Warriors

Loved this game on Xbox

tylerh1701 · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='slowdive21']You may be able to find one on clearance at SEARS. They were 9.97, I believe.[/QUOTE]

Wow. I never had luck trying to find YMMV clearance sales, but that's a great price. Thanks.

Namerson · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='tylerh1701']Wow. I never had luck trying to find YMMV clearance sales, but that's a great price. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

The 8GB runs out so fast. It's getting annoying having to wait for a price drop and having to delete games to download games and make room. I wasn't planning on buying a 32gb anytime soon but with PS+ I don't know how much longer I can stand micromanaging my data.

wilflare · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='slowdive21']You may be able to find one on clearance at SEARS. They were 9.97, I believe.[/QUOTE]

that's quite a crazy price.

johnnypark · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='gubmccargen']I'm kind of late to the party with the newfound Vita love but, really, what an extra awesome value PS+ just became with the new Vita support at no extra cost. I went from very tepid interest in picking up a Vita to now planning to pick up a bundle on Friday from Amazon.

It's essentially paying $200 for an unlimited amount of future content and great existing Vita titles as I already would have continued my PS+ subscription indefinitely for the PS3 alone. I don't really plan on shelling out what I view as outrageous portable retail prices so my investment with the system would pretty much be done but I'd eventually get to play a bunch of games.

I was tempted by Music Unlimited for the great price but no offline mode on iOS? Thanks for the heads-up. That's a deal breaker to me.[/QUOTE]

No doubt that PS+ is a game-changer for a lot of people. The announcement that it was coming spurred my decision to pull the trigger on the deal I found on Craigslist, and I'm really glad I did. $200 for a new system with a game is quite decent for the holiday buys, although you'll need a bigger memory card to really take advantage of having PS+.

PimpLimp · Nov 21, 2012

[quote name='tylerh1701']Is $21.99 a decent price to pay for an 8gb Vita Memory card? Or can it be had for cheaper?

I know I should go bigger, but the 16gb and 32gb are so expensive. So I figured with an 8gb and the 4gb I got in my bundle, I'd be okay for now.

[/QUOTE]I'd say the price is very decent, but you should no doubt go bigger. If you add up all the free games in the Vita's IGC, 8GB is just BARELY enough for those games alone.

Since you're in the market for a memory card anyway, I'd just bite the bullet and buy the 16GB. Then maybe flip the 4GB to recoup some of the cost.

Camre · Nov 21, 2012

Great, cant get the Sonic classic pack since I already have Sonic 2...thanks PS+..

J7. · Nov 22, 2012

Anyone without a Vita but with a PSP try downloading FF Tactics from PS+ and see if it works on PSP?

mars009 · Nov 22, 2012

So for how long are the Vita games going to be available for free? Until next tuesday or is it longer than that?

tylerh1701 · Nov 22, 2012

[quote name='mars009']So for how long are the Vita games going to be available for free? Until next tuesday or is it longer than that?[/QUOTE]

Longer.

Jackovasaurus · Nov 22, 2012

The rockstar sale is over by next week? Gotta get on those before then.

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