10th July 2006, 10:50 PM
Patching isn't a bad thing... while some console games do manage to ship without major bugs, more than enough do for me to say that patches would be just fine. I just don't want to have to pay for them... *looks at Xbox Live*
Usually it's not removed content but added content, made after the game was finished and released.
Yes, I've definitely noticed this...I thought for a while that the fact that Sony isn't a totally stupid company and can see public sentiment as well as anyone should mean that they would realize how much bad press they are getting and take some steps to mitigate their concerns, but they haven't done that... they have just repeated the same old points again, expecting to win in the end. And while I certainly will admit that it might work -- Sony won two generations in a row, they could again, and the PS3 will surely sell very well at launch among the people willing to pay any price -- I'm really starting to wonder if they're putting far too much faith on the concept that since they are Sony and are the leaders they will just continue to be the leaders, no matter what. That overconfidence helped bring down previous industry leaders, and it could well happen again now if Sony doesn't do something...
Of course, then the question is "but what can they do?" and it is a good one. Sony has stuck itsself with their current policy and changing things would mean retreats on issues that they do not want to admit that they might be wrong on... so they continue to fail to adapt to the changes in public sentiment against them. It's far too early to say what the result will be, but at this rate...
(Of course, I would love to see Sony go down, and hope they do, but after how successful they've been for two generations, seeing them miscalculate so badly is surprising...)
If all the games are region-free as advertised that will also be seriously awesome... SNES/N64/GC/Dreamcast may be easy to play import games on, requiring at most a converter cart/CD, but the PS1/PS2 are quite a pain from what I've read...
The PS2 will be a viable console for probably the next couple of years, I'll say that much... I wasn't so sure about that a year ago, but now? Yeah, the PS2 isn't going anywhere.
Quote:What could compel them into doing something as stupid as intentially removing already completed content and then tossing it in as a seperate download to be incorporated?
Usually it's not removed content but added content, made after the game was finished and released.
Quote:By the way, the stuff Sony is doing? There are similarities to how Nintendo was behaving. Nintendo too thought they were in charge and despite any attraction developers and gamers alike had to other systems, people would buy Nintendo's system. They were never worried it seems, then they were pushed into a distant 2nd place, holding on only because their hubris didn't extend into making terrible games and the system actually was decently designed.
Yes, I've definitely noticed this...I thought for a while that the fact that Sony isn't a totally stupid company and can see public sentiment as well as anyone should mean that they would realize how much bad press they are getting and take some steps to mitigate their concerns, but they haven't done that... they have just repeated the same old points again, expecting to win in the end. And while I certainly will admit that it might work -- Sony won two generations in a row, they could again, and the PS3 will surely sell very well at launch among the people willing to pay any price -- I'm really starting to wonder if they're putting far too much faith on the concept that since they are Sony and are the leaders they will just continue to be the leaders, no matter what. That overconfidence helped bring down previous industry leaders, and it could well happen again now if Sony doesn't do something...
Of course, then the question is "but what can they do?" and it is a good one. Sony has stuck itsself with their current policy and changing things would mean retreats on issues that they do not want to admit that they might be wrong on... so they continue to fail to adapt to the changes in public sentiment against them. It's far too early to say what the result will be, but at this rate...
(Of course, I would love to see Sony go down, and hope they do, but after how successful they've been for two generations, seeing them miscalculate so badly is surprising...)
Quote:What are they doing right? Well the system is still fully backwards compatible playing PS2 and PS1 games, but the PS2 people already own does that too .
If all the games are region-free as advertised that will also be seriously awesome... SNES/N64/GC/Dreamcast may be easy to play import games on, requiring at most a converter cart/CD, but the PS1/PS2 are quite a pain from what I've read...
Quote:I might even go as far as to say they could drop into irrelevence in the console side of things, at least next generation... They may end up just nursing their wounds with going back to full support on the PS2.
I'll tell you one thing. If the predictions end up accurate, look for ultra cheap PS3's as stores clear up shelf space. That'll be the only time I'd get mine. Other than that, I think I'll wait for the two must haves to get ported to one of the other systems and just buy a visually inferior version.
Sad though... The PS1 was a great system that taught Nintendo an important lesson, and the PS2 and the XBox taught Nintendo a few more lessons. Now this... Sucks, because I like my not so little PS2.
The PS2 will be a viable console for probably the next couple of years, I'll say that much... I wasn't so sure about that a year ago, but now? Yeah, the PS2 isn't going anywhere.