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Shino
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 Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: PS1 and PS2 games available for digital purchase with PS3? |
Maybe... that would be cool!
| Gamespot wrote: | Sony to digitally distribute PSone, PS2 titles to PS3s?
Source: Self-explanatorily titled UK game-news site Gamesindustry.biz.
The official story: "We have made no new announcements regarding PlayStation 3 since the initial guidance that was provided at E3 2005. We will be providing further details in due course."--Sony Computer Entertainment America rep.
What we heard: At E3 2005, Nintendo announced it would digitally distribute its entire back catalog of first-party NES, SNES, and N64 games to owners of its forthcoming Revolution console. Besides pleasing lovers of all things Mario, the announcement also raised the prospect of third-party publishers generating new revenue from old games via the service.
Indeed, digital distribution of old-school games has proven very popular on the Xbox 360. While many launch titles for the console have sold fewer copies than expected, the Xbox Live Arcade games Microsoft sells and distributes via its Xbox Live Marketplace have gained widespread use. Since it went online last November, Marketplace has seen over two million Arcade game downloads, according to a recent speech by Peter Moore, vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment division. The game downloads include such classics as Joust, Gauntlet, Robotron 2084, and Smash TV, as well as Xbox 360 demos, some of which are more than 1GB in size.
With Nintendo poised to make a fortune and Microsoft already cashing in by digitally distributing older games, it would make sense that Sony would follow suit. That what GamesIndustry.biz is claiming it has confirmed this week, via conversations with "several senior developers" who "have spoken informally with Sony about the question of digital distribution on consoles." Specifically, the article cites "one source from the development arm of a major third-party publisher claiming that Sony has been discussing the technical feasibility of providing PSone and PS2 titles over digital distribution with them."
While GamesIndustry.biz doesn't name names, a downloadable catalog of older PlayStation games makes sense. Sony has already announced the PS3 will play PS2 and PS games, meaning the backward-compatibility issue has presumably already been tackled. There are also widespread reports that Sony is at work on an Xbox Live-like online gaming service called PlayStation HUB, which would almost certainly need to have a digital delivery system. Also, as GamesIndustry.biz points out, high-speed Internet connections have made downloading games, which previously would have taken hours, a minutes-long affair. Digital distribution of multiple-gigabyte games has become commonplace for PC gamers, as evidenced by Valve's Steam service.
But the most compelling argument that Sony will digitally distribute games onto PS3 is that it simply can't afford not to. The company will lose a hefty amount of money on each PS3 hardware unit it sells, meaning it will be looking at any way it can to generate software dollars. Being able to sell millions of already complete titles digitally would avoid the usual development and retail distribution costs, and would therefore be very profitable even at a budget price.
Bogus or not bogus?: Almost certainly not bogus--if Sony, which is reportedly having hardware issues with the PS3, can pull it off.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: |
Finally a reason to push me towards a PS3 ^_^.
One of the big reasons im excited about Revolution is the download service.
I'd be pretty big on being able to download games like Brave Fencer Musashi, Threads of Fate etc. Now of course that all depends on pricing. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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.....I will have Xenogears! <3"
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:10 am Post subject: |
I have xenogears ^-^
I never finished that game >.> The first time, I got stuck in an area I wasn't strong enough for and there were no chances for back-leveling. The second time, I lost my mem card. I will beat that game eventually!
I'll have a bunch of PSOne games though, also pending price, cuz I'm an oldschool fan. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: |
I never finished it b/c it had "WAY TO MUCH STORY" syndrome.
That's where you have 10 minutes of gameplay, then 45 mins of story. Tollerated it until I got to disc 2, then it got worse... so I just stopped.
Xenosaga suffers from it too. Which is why I never got into it.
Great games, but not for me. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: |
Xenogears could have been one of the most amazing games ever...until the it became obvious that they cut the games budget to make FFVIII and the fact I sat there for 45-60 minutes of nothing but slow passing text. I thought video games were supposed to be interactive. If I wanted to read and get a visual experience, I read a comic book thank you very much. At least Xenosaga had actual cinematics, so it wasn't as boring at it Xenogears could just get at times.
As for this, not surprising about the fact of having downloadable games, but isn't that what backwards compatibility is for? Sure, you can download games you don't have, but for me, I rather own the actual physical game. Just like iTunes. I don't buy albums of them. Sure it would be cheaper...but I rather have the disc and the actual package, you know?
It works much better for Revolution since you obviously can't play the actual physical NES-N64 carts on the system. Even the 360 rumor (which seems to not be really going anywhere...not even enough to get on Gamespot or other news sites) that DC games would be playable by downloading them on Live seemed a more natural idea.
Am I saying it is stupid? No. It is just something that isn't for me personally. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: |
What my question is, though, is that if you can download the whole library... that significant hard drive space we're talking about here. And that's without any games that install to the hard drive themselves... just how big of hard drives are we going to have to have here to satisfy our demands? |
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