{"id":103563,"date":"2016-09-13T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103563"},"modified":"2016-09-13T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:09:28","slug":"the-south-african-pricing-of-microsofts-play-anywhere-games-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103563-the-south-african-pricing-of-microsofts-play-anywhere-games-is-ridiculous","title":{"rendered":"The South African pricing of Microsoft’s “Play Anywhere” games is ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft recently announced that the first of its “Play Anywhere” games were up for pre-order.<\/p>\n

That means titles including ReCore<\/strong>, Gears of War 4<\/strong> and Forza Horizon 3<\/strong> will soon be playable on both Xbox One and Windows 10 devices.<\/p>\n

PC gamers hoping to play these Xbox exclusives for the first time may be in for a bit of a shock however, as they will be paying premium console prices for access to these games.<\/p>\n

Check out the cross-platform pricing below:<\/p>\n

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ReCore – R689<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gears of War 4 – R999<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gears of War 4: Ultimate Edition – R1,889<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forza Horizon 3: Standard Edition – R999<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forza Horizon 3: Deluxe Edition – R1,499<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forza Horizon 3: Ultimate Edition – R1,899<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Would you pay a premium to play these Xbox exclusives? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is this the start of console pricing for PC games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":96079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[319,91,8679,2163,13009],"class_list":["post-103563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-exclusive","tag-microsoft","tag-pricing","tag-south-africa","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103567,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103563\/revisions\/103567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}