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Sony appears to be testing dynamic pricing on PlayStation games

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A site called PSprices has been tracking prices on Sony's digital game store and noticed something unusual: some games were being offered at different prices to different users. What's more, those offers are tracked in the PlayStation API with experiment identifiers like IPT_PILOT and IPT_OPR_TESTING. Dynamic pricing is nothing new and is used across a […]

A site called

PSprices

has been tracking prices on Sony's digital game store and noticed something unusual: some games were being offered at

different prices

to different users. What's more, those offers are tracked in the PlayStation API with experiment identifiers like IPT_PILOT and IPT_OPR_TESTING.

Dynamic

pricing

is nothing new and is used across a number of industries. But it's often

met

with

backlash

and isn't typically found in online game stores. According to

PSprices

, Sony is running A/B testing on prices for over 150 games in 68 regions, though the US doesn't currently appear to be part of the experiment. For now, at least, Sony i …

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— Source: The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/games/891085/sony-dynamic-pricing-playstation-games)

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