Comments on: The PlayStation Recap — Lazy Saturday Edition

By: Hooligantuan

Hooligantuan — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:07:54 +0000

There has always been a second-hand market and any company that attempts to count those products as lost sales is cooking their numbers. You don’t get to lose money you never had.

The problem isn’t the second-hand market, it’s that games of dubious quality insist on being $59.99 across the board. The modern problem also involves a lack of price adjustment for non-resalable, non-physical digital media. It seriously takes some stones to tell anyone that they should be paying the same price for a digital product as they would for the same physical product in a store, when the digital product is nigh infinitely reproducable, involves no substantial shipping and handling, and no physical product, involving the storage media production, disc printing, or packaging materials such as box copy, inserts, and cases.

And I am so, so freakin’ sick of Sony for refusing to acknowledge this. They are straight up gouging their customer base.

By: sasgeata

sasgeata — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:08:39 +0000

On the PS4 rumors, my thoughts:
1) No used games. I personally support this idea, gamestop makes a huge profit margin off of what is essentially a Sony (or microsoft or activision or whoever) product.
2) No backwards compatibility. From what i understand the PS4 is using a core processor in order to make multi-platform games run better. The Cell type processor in the PS3 is so different from the xbox 360 that when games are made on 360 and ported to ps3, lazy developers don’t make them run properly. They are changing to a core processor, which will not run the games made to work on cell, ergo back campat, it impossible.
My 2 cents

By: Butters360

Butters360 — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:49:36 +0000

Sid, I was referring to the newest episode of Community.

By: DarkOne_PR

DarkOne_PR — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:58:07 +0000

The rumor that worries me most its the lack of PS3 BC compatibility….if thats true.. then the PS4 will flop. I bough My ps3 with BC bc its important. I wont change my fatty Lovable ps3 for any slim.

By: gloryindeath

gloryindeath — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:33:08 +0000

orbis?

By: Hooligantuan

Hooligantuan — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:31:30 +0000

Understandable policy on rumors and speculations aside, a system that utilizes a preowned software countermeasure as described in the rumor would be a system I would not be interested in purchasing, even with the bulk of my gaming library having been purchased new.

Such disenfranchising of the poorer or thriftier persons in the playerbase smacks of a flavor of greed I won’t abide in any product feeding on the electrical supply of my home.

I will take all of my business to Steam and not think twice about it. They’re very good folks, there. Lots of sales. Great software support. Better pricing across the board.

By: Sid Shuman

Sid Shuman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:10:24 +0000

Ooh! What do you think of the visuals compared to the PS2 versions?

By: Sid Shuman

Sid Shuman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:09:05 +0000

Yeah, haven’t heard an update from the Doctor Who guys recently, but last I heard it was tracking for April. I’ll connect with James Gallagher from our EU Blog to try and get to the bottom of it!

By: Sid Shuman

Sid Shuman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:08:03 +0000

…snuh?

By: Sid Shuman

Sid Shuman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:07:26 +0000

Just a reminder, but we don’t talk about rumors and speculation here.