F1 23: Higher Launch Prices, Pre-Order Discounts

Pierre Gasly leads Lando Norris into Sainte Devote at Monaco in F1 23.png
Formula One fans have to wait just a bit over a month to get their hands on the new official game, as F1 23 is set to launch on June 16th. If you want to enjoy the new, up-to-date game, you will have to use more budget than in 2022 - prices have increased in comparison to F1 22.

Pre-orders for F1 23 are already available, and they come with certain bonuses in some cases: Players who pull the trigger on Steam already will get a 10% discount on the Champions Edition, subscribers to EA Play save the same when pre-ordering the Standard and Champions Edition in the Microsoft Store and PlayStation Store, respectively.

With the discounts applied, the prices are in the same range as in 2022, but without them, it becomes clear that the prices have been raised by 10€ for the European editions. The US versions feature the same pricing in Dollar instead, as do the UK versions.

F1 23 - Prices​

Steam
Standard Edition: €69.99/£59.99/$69.99
Champions Edition: €89.99/£79.99/$89.99 (10% pre-order discount)

Microsoft Store
Standard Edition: €79.99/£69.99/$69.99 (10& discount with EA Play)
Champions Edition: €99.99/£89.99/$89.99 (10% discount with EA Play)

PlayStation Store
Standard Edition: €79.99/£69.99/$69.99 (10% discount with EA Play)
Champions Edition: €99.99/£89.99/$89.99 (10% discount with EA Play)

F1 22 was the first title of the series since EA Sports took over Codemasters in 2021 that clearly bore the handwriting of the publisher, and F1 23 is set to continue this trend. Features that have been announced are the return of the Braking Point story mode, an all-new F1 World hub, the addition of Red Flags and a revised handling model that should improve the experience especially for gamepad racers.

Whether or not the new features and improvements compared to F1 22 warrant the rise in price remains to be seen. With the release just over a month away, the first opinions prior to the game's launch should be available soon.

Your Thoughts​

Are you looking forward to F1 23? What is your opinion on the raised prices? Let us know in the comments below!
  • Haha
  • Wow
  • Angry
Reactions: DMAN, ibsen911, Eric Rowland and 3 others
About author
Yannik Haustein
Yannik Haustein
Lifelong motorsport enthusiast and sim racing aficionado, walking racing history encyclopedia.

Sim racing editor, streamer and one half of the SimRacing Buddies podcast (warning, German!).

Heel & Toe Gang 4 life :D

More in F1 2x

Comments

L
VFX Pro said:
At $39,99 you will have more fun, more choice of content with AMS2... not even close.
store.steampowered.com

Automobilista 2 on Steam

Automobilista 2 once again puts you in the driving seat of an advanced and diverse racing simulator - now with incredible graphical quality, high-profile cars and tracks, advanced dynamic track condition system and VR support.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
Click to expand...
Honestly, to all the F1 fans, he is right. While there isn't yet a career mode, there are seasons offline and as long as you are ok subbing some tracks on the schedule you will probably have a better time in AMS2. There are skinpacks that have driver names (and abilities) and you have (in the base game) several other generations of F1 cars.
 
Bert Austen
Premium
EA - Arcade Mess for @ Discount price. :cry: Don't find this junk appropriate on racedepartment site:mad: Mario Bross F1 2023:O_o:
 
M
VFX Pro said:
$89 for this game that doesn't even properly support PC features. They are just milking the same fools every year with just a few skin change a few driver name updates. Sad...

AMS2's choice of F1 cars and tracks is so much larger and better while being much more simulation focused FFB/physics at a much better price...
Click to expand...
Bought it once. 2021, I guess, amidst the tedium of the pandemic lockdowns. I was used to Geoff Crammond's F1 series of games, which were fun, realistic, and straight to the point. I couldn't bear all the infantile, childish overload of that 2021 "formula 1 simulation" (all those cut scenes and stupid steps before we would actually go racing), and I was lucky enough to give up before 2 hours, so Steam got me refunded and I swore I would never touch this crap again. It's sad, because developers like Kunos or Reiza would come up with a perfect, and I mean PERFECT, formula one sim. But "licensing", these days, only means "cash-grabbing". For all I know, there's more F1 in games like Grand Prix 4 (more than twenty years ago!) than in this "modern" series. 70 euros, they're asking, LOL.
 
M
VFX Pro said:
$89 for this game that doesn't even properly support PC features. They are just milking the same fools every year with just a few skin change a few driver name updates. Sad...

AMS2's choice of F1 cars and tracks is so much larger and better while being much more simulation focused FFB/physics at a much better price...
Click to expand...
the difference is AMS2 has no actual game, nothing to do

that's a pretty big downfall for a VIDEO GAME
 
N
I definitely won't be getting F1 23. This bunch has always been exploitative with some highly questionable features. I remember well having full grip in the pouring rain on slicks at Spa in F1 2010....
The interface with all the keyboard heiroglyphics is ordinary and we are STILL waiting for the awesome Mugello and Istanbul. Since there is little to no communication from them, who knows if this will ever happen!
 
ParkYongLee
To those whining, F1 content can be found better at other SIM-Racing games:
Yes, but you are not the audience of this game. It ain't a SIM, and I am very glad about it.

On PC I am happy as we have mods and other third party tools to adjust the game to our liking. Get it on sale, enjoy the F1 circus entertainment - this year again with another story. 2021 was trash, but I enjoyed the story.
For 22 I got the EA trial at first, 10 hours for modding purposes were fine. Later it was on sale below 10 € and since then I've spent and am still spending more than 100 hours into it and am enjoying it.

RD is not only SIM Racing guys, especially for F1 games by CM RD is THE source for mods still.
I will buy 23 at some point, be it only to enjoy the story and my hobby: Modding of video games.

70 €, well what can you do. Back in the days PS1 games were 120 DM in Germany, with less technology, less production costs, less this less that, less energy costs etc. etc. You cannot expect for decades and decades games staying on the same price level.

Others spent hundreds or thousands into their equipment, or online games, or, or, or. Gaming is a hobby and what you want to spend is on you. And if the game gives you hundreds of possible hours of entertainment, it is a fair share. There are other "story" games out there, which demand 50 €+ and give your 8 hours worth of content.

Noone is forced to buy, play or even preorder - so why all this toxic ranting already...
 
_ShadowWolfe
Honestly I'll probably just utilize EA's app (for once) to play the 10 hours and see how it feels, but there's no way I'd be paying $70 for a game where the only new features are
- Revised handling (this time with input from F1 drivers and teams, not sure what was stopping them before)
- Red Flags
- Two new tracks
Aaaand copy-paste the same stuff from 22 to 23, delete the whole "Supercars" section, and boom! Totally a game worth $70, apparently.
 
RichardHessels
ParkYongLee said:
To those whining, F1 content can be found better at other SIM-Racing games:
Yes, but you are not the audience of this game. It ain't a SIM, and I am very glad about it.

On PC I am happy as we have mods and other third party tools to adjust the game to our liking. Get it on sale, enjoy the F1 circus entertainment - this year again with another story. 2021 was trash, but I enjoyed the story.
For 22 I got the EA trial at first, 10 hours for modding purposes were fine. Later it was on sale below 10 € and since then I've spent and am still spending more than 100 hours into it and am enjoying it.

RD is not only SIM Racing guys, especially for F1 games by CM RD is THE source for mods still.
I will buy 23 at some point, be it only to enjoy the story and my hobby: Modding of video games.

70 €, well what can you do. Back in the days PS1 games were 120 DM in Germany, with less technology, less production costs, less this less that, less energy costs etc. etc. You cannot expect for decades and decades games staying on the same price level.

Others spent hundreds or thousands into their equipment, or online games, or, or, or. Gaming is a hobby and what you want to spend is on you. And if the game gives you hundreds of possible hours of entertainment, it is a fair share. There are other "story" games out there, which demand 50 €+ and give your 8 hours worth of content.

Noone is forced to buy, play or even preorder - so why all this toxic ranting already...
Click to expand...
So many F1 mods is ripped content from the F1 series.
 
Richard Wilks
VFX Pro said:
$89 for this game that doesn't even properly support PC features. They are just milking the same fools every year with just a few skin change a few driver name updates. Sad...

AMS2's choice of F1 cars and tracks is so much larger and better while being much more simulation focused FFB/physics at a much better price...
Click to expand...
I will yet again ask you and all the others:

Can you tell me exactly, with proof, videos, telemetry or otherwise where exactly are the physics of AMS2 or any other better to replicate a modern F1 than the current codies F1 game?...
 
  • Like
Reactions: d0c
ParkYongLee
_ShadowWolfe said:
Aaaand copy-paste the same stuff from 22 to 23
Click to expand...
Uhu, so the cars' chassis are c&p? They aren't even in F1 22 comparing the first patches to the latest.
The story is c&p, too?
I'm not defending EA/CM in general, but these general comments from some people are just horsepoo.
 
  • Like
Reactions: d0c
V1nn7
Trebor901 said:
£69.99 is an absolute joke for a game. Again even just normal gaming becoming something only well off people can do. People can laugh at me all they want but it's disgusting.
Click to expand...
There is only one case where I can think that $70 for a game is justified, and that's with The Legend of Zelda; Tears of the Kingdom, because for starters, it's a game that's been in development since 2019 and is finally releasing this week, so it's taken a very long time to finish and perfect, whereas with the F1 games, since they're yearly release games, there isn't as much time to make them as the developers would like, so in some cases they're forced to cut corners or release the game early in a buggy state similar to what Ubisoft likes to do, but my point is, there are games that have a $70 pricetag where the pricing is justified in what you get.
 
kondor999
Just wait a few months and you can grab it on sale, or when it gets added to Gamepass/Sony Plus. While I do sorta enjoy F1 22 as a sim-lite, it's certainly not a full-price experience. I tried it in VR the other day and discovered it's still rendering at a super-low res. Meanwhile, VR works perfectly in AMS2, as always. I didn't even bother trying to find a fix (if it exists). Not worth my time.
 
P
I stupidly bought day 1 last year for VR. Yes, I know, don't buy day 1, but I was really happy with F1 21 and thought it was going to be more of the same but with VR. I was wrong. Just have to read the official forums for the list of complaints. The game was just a crash fest in VR with the game freezing randomly or just dumping my to the desktop with SteamVR errors. (Seems others suffered the same issue on the official forums, so it wasn't just me.) When it did run, it was pretty poor on my 3070. I've since upgraded to a 4090, but due to all the random freezes, I just can't be bothered to see if things have improved.

What really got my goat was the underhand sales tactics of getting influencers to rave about the VR experience prior to release. Funny how companies can get away with having other people lie on their behalf.
After all that, they think this years version is worth MORE?
 
E
Probably the best thing that the EA games are offering are their career modes in almost all of their games. I only played f1 18 or 19 for about an hour, but the career mode was something which would have kept me going, if i hadn't ventured in a couple of bugs/problems which made it not enjoyalbe for me.

I would love to see some real basic stuff, like at the beginning of a championship a TV show talking about the cars, drivers and circuits running in the actual championship with a little focus on the player and his achievements etc. Before every race you get another TV clip with moderators talking about the track, the cars, drivers, teams, standings and the weather. After every race there would be another clip with the highlights of the whole event. Who set the fastest time in practice, who made it to pole position, who won the race and a couple of replays from the actual race if you pass some cars or fight for position. From a SP perspective you could earn prize money, get different sponsors for your team, choose different upgrades for your team or maybe different teammembers with different stats for better performance off the track. Upgrade your pitcrew and do faster pitstops and stuff like that. Buy different cars to enter different championships. You could start a career from karts to F1 or anything else. *I am looking at you @reiza* :D:rolleyes: Some kind of a Senna Career Experience :D:D:D
 
Finn Jacobsen
I´m not making the same mistake once again.
I bought F1 22 cause it finally had VR support - or I thought so..
It had VR - but the support for fixing the VR issues did not exist.
 

Latest News

Article information

Author
Yannik Haustein
Article read time
2 min read
Views
8,773
Comments
72
Last update

Share this article

What would be the ideal raceday for you to join our Club Races?

  • Monday

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Tuesday

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Wednesday

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Thursday

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Friday

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Saturday

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • Sunday

    Votes: 3 42.9%
See comments…
Back
Top