Capcom, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT MAKE ANY MEGA MAN GAMES FOR THE NGP. Many of us (well probably few of us) went down that road with the PSP, and it still burns, man. It still burns
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And they can continue to beg. There's a pretty big difference between a $2 game where you fling birds at pigs and, say, Heavy Rain. Though the former does enormously have much more value and entertainment.
And really, if the industry was content to make only games like Angry Birds, it might not be such an issue. But no, they want to make grandiose, epic games. They want you to experience the immensity of their artistic creativity. And they want to charge you full price for it, and not let you sell it to GameStop or lend it to a friend. And the truth is most of these games are abysmally mediocre.
$2 for Angry Birds isn't bad. But you'd have to pay me to play Heavy Rain.
I'm simply responding to the claim that "digital marketplaces will never take off until digital goods can be treated as physical goods." I don't see how Heavy Rain factors into that at all.
Well ok, I'm not going to say the digital marketplace is a complete failure. It certainly works to some degree, to fill certain roles. But still, they're nearly all very simple and inexpensive apps and games. A lot of them are even free (which is why Apple will quote downloads instead of sales).
Heavy Rain, well I just needed a crappy game to pick on. The industry would love if we had to download their games instead of buy physical ones. Imagine paying $60 for a game, but you can't return it for a refund, you can't sell it to someone else, you can't even let a friend borrow it. You can only delete it and be $60 poorer. This is what the PSPgo was an "experiment" for. And we saw how that did.
It's to that end the digital marketplace isn't going to work in its current form.
I don't know where Sony got into the idea that you had to have bleeding-edge technology to win the war... The PS1 and PS2 were "weaker" than the competition, but won their generations due to their competitive pricing and game library.
Then starting with the PS3 and PSP... they felt the need to make far more advanced hardware than the competition... and it bit them in the ass. Sure, PSP has been the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever, but software sales have lagged far beyond that of DS (and you can't really blame piracy, because the DS is just as easy to pirate for, if not easier), unless your name was Monster Hunter (and you're in Japan
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And really, if the industry was content to make only games like Angry Birds, it might not be such an issue. But no, they want to make grandiose, epic games. They want you to experience the immensity of their artistic creativity. And they want to charge you full price for it, and not let you sell it to GameStop or lend it to a friend. And the truth is most of these games are abysmally mediocre.
$2 for Angry Birds isn't bad. But you'd have to pay me to play Heavy Rain.
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Heavy Rain, well I just needed a crappy game to pick on. The industry would love if we had to download their games instead of buy physical ones. Imagine paying $60 for a game, but you can't return it for a refund, you can't sell it to someone else, you can't even let a friend borrow it. You can only delete it and be $60 poorer. This is what the PSPgo was an "experiment" for. And we saw how that did.
It's to that end the digital marketplace isn't going to work in its current form.
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I don't know where Sony got into the idea that you had to have bleeding-edge technology to win the war... The PS1 and PS2 were "weaker" than the competition, but won their generations due to their competitive pricing and game library.
Then starting with the PS3 and PSP... they felt the need to make far more advanced hardware than the competition... and it bit them in the ass. Sure, PSP has been the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever, but software sales have lagged far beyond that of DS (and you can't really blame piracy, because the DS is just as easy to pirate for, if not easier), unless your name was Monster Hunter (and you're in Japan ( ... )
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