Comments on: PlayStation Around The Web: What We Read

By: Toe_Tag_

Toe_Tag_ — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:34:39 +0000

Any Socom news

By: KazeEternal

KazeEternal — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:43:59 +0000

@GT_168
Cross Buy and Backward Compatibility (not backwards btw) are really nothing a like. With BC you get an emulation is a one time cost to provide that feature to a consumer and they get it for the life time of the products. A Vita game has to be built locally for that machine, there is no emulation and developers have to be brought in to make the game work.

I’m also not saying make us pay full price, I’m talking about knocking 75 to 85 percent off the Vita Versions price tag for a downloadable version to help recover some of those extra developer cost. I want to see 3rd parties get on board and this sounds like something to help ease the blow. Think like a suit and you’ll see dollar signs and they’ll tell you they don’t like the idea of giving anything away for free. These are the people Sony has to contend with. I like free as much as the next guy, but lets be real, while its great Sony is leading the Charge, I’d like to see something like Final Fantasy X HD available to me on both platforms at no extra cost or just a few dollars more.

By: KazeEternal

KazeEternal — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:33:40 +0000

@Jeff Rubenstien
I’m saying I’d be willing to pay a little more, if 3rd party developers are reluctant to give it to me for free. I prefer free Vita versions with my games, especially if the voucher gives me added incentive not to buy a game used. I think getting the vita version with the PS3 version is awesome and the only thing holding me back from games like Mortal Kombat, BlazBlue, MGS HD, and Street Fighter X Tekken on Vita is in part due to having to pay 40 to 50 dollars more for a game I already own. Knocking 30 and 40 off respectively would go a long way of softening the blow, but lets be honest, I like free, but I know that the cost of development is something a 3rd party would cringe at when offering these games for free.

By: GT_168

GT_168 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:01:41 +0000

@KazeEternal

I see this sentiment a lot but really the cost is almost non existent since the vast majority of people do not or will not buy both the PS3 game and the Vita game. There was a survey conducted to test the waters as to how many consumers were willing to buy the same game twice. Therefore Cross buy might be less costly to a developer than a simple discount would. It is also great for the consumer as it is a step towards buying the software itself rather than a version of the software limited to use on one device. In a sense it is similar to backwards compatibility, when the PS2 came out your could play PS1 games on it and you didn’t have to buy another version. Now it is between the Vita and the PS3. Cross Buy will usher in the success of Cross Play and Cross Platform, and I am all for that.

By: DarthDanMan

DarthDanMan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:10:04 +0000

@#8 Jeff
What I think he’s saying is that more developers would jump into the cross-buy boat if they got a little bit of a profit off the Vita version.

By: Hikaru_Kazushime

Hikaru_Kazushime — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:53 +0000

Go PLAYSTATION!!!!

By: Jeff Rubenstein

Jeff Rubenstein — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:59:15 +0000

It’s something we’re looking into, yes.

By: Jeff Rubenstein

Jeff Rubenstein — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:58:11 +0000

Are you saying that you’d like to pay for what we’re offering for free?

By: Kchow23

Kchow23 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:06:05 +0000

Will you guys be covering the MGS 25th anniversary event? considering how PlayStation is a huge part of that legacy :)

By: KazeEternal

KazeEternal — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:54:03 +0000

@7 onslaughtree
Mini’s can already be played on Vita, it’s been that way for awhile. PSOne and PS2 Classics are the only ones that aren’t available yet (I also doubt we’ll ever get PS2 classics on this generation of Vita just for the record).