If Blizzard increased the cost to $20, they'd make money. The die hards who are willing to pay the $20 a month would recoup the amount lost by the people it turned away, and then some.
Wow Sony.... just wow...
EDIT: Here's the page on 1up that basically confirms what you said in the first post.
Quick question to Warlock (or indeed anyone else who can answer it) - I heard a rumour that SquareEnix erre thinking about porting their FFIII remake to the PS2 after it comes out for the DS. Can this be confirmed or denied?
ONeilcool wrote:The difference is Blizzard probably could get away with it, and Sony pretty much can't.
Who says? I think they can just because the amount of people I talk to who don't give a second thought on a $600 console. In fact, I've even talked to people who said they'd still shell out that money even if no games came out on launch. People who acted just as arrogant as Sony too.
Darth Marsden wrote:EDIT: Here's the page on 1up that basically confirms what you said in the first post.Quick question to Warlock (or indeed anyone else who can answer it) - I heard a rumour that SquareEnix erre thinking about porting their FFIII remake to the PS2 after it comes out for the DS. Can this be confirmed or denied?
1up never works for me from home. Pisses me off.
Anyways, no that will never happen. Why would they? The graphics will look like shit and you have to remove any cool touch screen functions they add to the game. The resolution especially won't work (how do you cram a two-screen game onto one screen?).
The first quote you gave is everything on the link I gave. No fuss, no mess.
And with regards to FFIII... the touch-screen is apparently going to be used for the crystals in some way. Replace the touch-screen with, say, the right analogue stick and the L & R buttons, up the resolution and boom! PS2 game. Sell for $30 and you're laughing.
Darth Marsden wrote:The first quote you gave is everything on the link I gave. No fuss, no mess.And with regards to FFIII... the touch-screen is apparently going to be used for the crystals in some way. Replace the touch-screen with, say, the right analogue stick and the L & R buttons, up the resolution and boom! PS2 game. Sell for $30 and you're laughing.
Again I refer you to my comment - "it will look like shit"
Or, Sony sells it for $50 and they're laughing.
Grasshopper makes an unfortunately apt point, in that there are plenty of people who buy playstation because it's playstation, and for no other reason than "X-BOX and Gaycube suck". It's these people that Sony will take advantage of initially, and claim their console to be a success. But between X360 owners having already bought the console, and the Wii demographic, long term success is going to be very difficult for Sony. As I've said before, I doubt that they'll completely crash and burn, but coming in third is still going to hurt.
Speaking of Sony, wonderful news today. The kernel mode exploit was found in PSP bios versions 2.5 and 2.6 a couple days ago released as a proof of concept program that simply proved flash/bios access. After a few days and after more information came out, there is now a downgrader out. This downgrader allows users to turn their PSP back to a version 1.5 which allows usersto run homebrew and ISOs. This now makes the pool of potential 1.5 PSPs extremely larger. Good news for anyone that hates Sony, or anyone with a PSP that wants to emulate NES, SNES, Genesis whereever they go. 😉
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/716/716405p1.html Developers
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/716/716214p1.html Tax Fraud
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/716/716144p1.html Analysts
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/716/716047p1.html Japan
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/714/714775p1.html And Even Sony
Are hinting at the death of the PS3.
To this I have to say..... WWWWWWW0000000000000000000000000TTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sony has done very little to justify why the system is worth a premium price for consumers that don't care about raw hardware performance and are not hard-core audio/visual consumers. Unfortunately we believe that represents over 90% of the consumers in the marketplace.
One developer commented, "It's more expensive than my rent."
Stringer implied that the next-generation consoles from Nintendo and Microsoft were cheaper, "transitional products" while claiming that the PS3 represented true "future-proof" technology that would remain viable for many years to come.
Ha ha.
Quite frankly, I want a system that's fun to play. That's the Wii right there. Period. Sony's forgotten that that's generally what people want, and they're going to fail for it. I can't wait.
Stringer also expressed confidence in the company's Blu-ray high-definition DVD technology as filmmakers are "beginning to sense, in Blu-ray, that the pendulum is swinging and swinging for a clear reason" as studios increasingly acknowledge the need for the higher memory capacity offered by Blu-ray.
Actually I get the Impression that the main reason they seem to like Blu-ray and HD-DVD is HDCP. I could careless about $2000 HDTVs and $600 Game consoles especialy when the Time Bomb that is HDCP is still up in the air. Both BluRay and HDDVD can die as far as I care, the Industry has too much control as it is. It has been said many times that games don't come close to using up an entire DVD, and as it stands DVDs are also the most practical Format for Movie Distrobution. The whole "HD" thing is looking more and more like a conspericy to give more power to the entertainment industry.
Ain't that the truth. The movie industry is desperate to control whatever format they force apon you. They want your money. They don't want anyone else to offer you an alternative if they don't have a hand in it either.