Now here's an idea - game loyalty rewarded with cheaper sequels

System 3 is rewarding existing owners of Ferrari Challenge on PS3 by reducing the cost of its sequel, Ferrari: The Race Experience for its release on PSN tomorrow. It's not a massive reduction in price, as fans get it for £9.99 instead of £11.99, but a lot of companies would do well to follow their example.

Presumably the PS Store will scan your hard drive for game saves or even the presence of the game disc before you pay. However it works, it's a great idea, and we'd love to see it applied to other games, especially big series like FIFA, Call of Duty or Street Fighter.

The game itself appears to be a remix of the first Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli, with two more tracks - Riviera and Fiorano - both of which appeared in the original's pseudo-sequel, Supercar Challenge. There will also be new cars such as the 458 Italia and the 599XX. It's good to see another Ferrari-only game as the original had a genuine sense of that prancing horse magic, not to mention the fact it had 'the finger' assigned to a shake of the SixAxis.

The new game should be hitting PSN any time now. In the mean-time, check out this CG trailer:

There isn't any gameplay footage available right now, but you can see now-Formula One driver Bruno Senna talking us through the original game from a few years back here for an idea of what to expect:

06 Oct, 2010

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Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

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