22nd April 2007, 1:24 PM
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/22/square...ke-old-on/
Well now this is interesting. Squeenix basically had made a concious effort to dedicate themselves to the "business model" of remaking all their old games ad inifinitum. Once the ad nausia sets in though, I think this could backfire in a major way.
Sad though... I wish they never realized just how much someone is willing to pay for an extra dungeon. I mean Nintendo, for example, originally felt they could only sell " games we already made" by packing 4 enhanced versions into a single cart called Super Mario All-Stars. With the GBC and GBA, they reached a point where they realized they could sell the games with a lot of additional gameplay features as SEPERATE entities, no more collection packages. They died. Then AFTER GBC's Deluxe SMB, they actually had the gall to release the original and completely dull by comparison NES versions of the game, seperatly as well, no package.
Instead of doing remakes over and over again, I think they really need to take advantage of downloadable content. Release a final remake once more and then from that point on, whatever crazy feature or dungeon you want to toss in, make it a downloadable content pack. Or not, since for now at least people seem willing to pay for these games AGAIN.
Well now this is interesting. Squeenix basically had made a concious effort to dedicate themselves to the "business model" of remaking all their old games ad inifinitum. Once the ad nausia sets in though, I think this could backfire in a major way.
Sad though... I wish they never realized just how much someone is willing to pay for an extra dungeon. I mean Nintendo, for example, originally felt they could only sell " games we already made" by packing 4 enhanced versions into a single cart called Super Mario All-Stars. With the GBC and GBA, they reached a point where they realized they could sell the games with a lot of additional gameplay features as SEPERATE entities, no more collection packages. They died. Then AFTER GBC's Deluxe SMB, they actually had the gall to release the original and completely dull by comparison NES versions of the game, seperatly as well, no package.
Instead of doing remakes over and over again, I think they really need to take advantage of downloadable content. Release a final remake once more and then from that point on, whatever crazy feature or dungeon you want to toss in, make it a downloadable content pack. Or not, since for now at least people seem willing to pay for these games AGAIN.
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