"If the PS3 had kept focused on keeping their 100+ million PS2 owners happy, maybe they would still be leading the industry"
Yes I'm sure if they kept BC the PS3 would magically sell millions upon millions of consoles, because we all buy new consoles to play old console games, right.
"Why not let existing PSP owners download the games they own for free? How about letting me send in my UMD's to them for some download codes? "
I'm sure people making up these "magical" solutions don't care nor are even interested in the program, it's criticism because well either they have a personal vendetta against Sony (god knows why) or they want something for nothing.
Leaving that aside, when was the last time a company offered a program that allowed you to "convert" your physical media into digital format with no strings attached? None, so why the expectations that Sony should o...
"Disks get worn out or damaged, and are still only usable by one person at a time."
Err that has nothing to do with the issue...you'd might as well point out something random like a physical copy has a box versus digital copy having nothing, but here's something new to learn, you can also get physical copies of pirated games. The point being both methods: used game or pirated, the profiteer ain't going to see a cent out of it.
"If g...
So you're saying Publishers, Developers and investors should be satisfied with cross-subsidisation, where there is a proportion of gamers who will pay full price where as the rest can somehow get away with cheaper prices?
Here's the facts: it's business, no one aims to just break-even or sell "good enough", everyone is in the race to maximise profits.
The reasoning behind this opinion piece could easily be substituted into the reasoning for someone who chooses to pirate games.
"Game developers have not lost a sale, they have their initial sale from whoever bought it new."
Yep, exactly, just like how game developers haven't "lost" a sale from the initial host uploader who bought it new.
"After seeing the trailer for Far Cry 3 I got interested, bought Far Cry 2 u...
What's wrong with having a case by case fee for each game, third party publishers would obviously demand a slice of the revenue(obviously they are the most expensive ones).
Agreed,
It's not as if there isn't enough free public information available that discloses what we are buying, people simply insist on buying it regardless and corporations are simply filling in to that demand.
Playing as Kiryu Kazuma in Rambo gear would be funny as.
"n console (and if you play with a controller on the PC), thumbstick navigation minimizes button presses, and you can easily move between your quest log and the main map."
You decide what it means.
100,000+ for Uncharted 3 and BF3 are huge sales for Japan, most games on home consoles only sell 20,000-80,000.
The Pippin was made by Apple (1995) before Steve Jobs (1997) was rehired as CEO. It was the old crappy Apple that failed with it, not the new Apple as we know it today.
"Buying games when they’re released is a scam"
There is a good reason they say "time is money".
You'll probably want to buy this before November 18th, otherwise your activation allowances will go from 5 to 2.
So this car is going to be in BF3?
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
*jks*
It might be an "opinion" that he/she is entitled when it has just been casually pasted in a comments section or blog, but is it merely an "opinion" when you consider that it will sit on metacritic and be read by 1000's of readers some of whom might be more trusting than not? I think not and it has something to do with "professionalism".
Really you only have to look at journalism outside of video games to see that a journalist doesn't mere...
Is it just Japan that is infatuated with "save the word" type storylines?
I mean even something like Uncharted 2 involves saving the world from evil.
This is true, I just finished the campaign in 4hrs 47minutes on normal.
It's short, but there are quite a bit of spec ops missions to continue on to afterwards.
No it's not the link you provided is a report by andriasang.com, where as this is an official report by blog.eu.playstation.com.
He never dismisses the idea that just because it's a video game it cannot be art. In fact he even says that there are films that are considered art because it is thought evocative, much like a video game can live to the same potential.
But his point is that many are confusing something as art just because it touches or leads into elements which make it art, he labels these things as "entertainment", rather than true "art" that has a "set that bar ...
There is a closed BETA test for developers to sign-up for this cross platform Playstation stuff right now. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.