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Did Konami delist Simpsons & X-Men Arcade on PSN?
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any source or exmples for it?
AcceptableGhost
Member
this for the most part
these are bad games but it still sucks they are getting delisted, lost to the digital winds
edit: people worrying about ducktales remastered, it has retail versions for consoles so its not in any danger
Just an estimate. The Simpsons came out on February 2012 and is being delisted now.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
They would have been bundled together and sold at retail for $20, just like last gen.
Fortunately, D&D Collection came out on a retail disc in Japan, and it's better than the version we got digitally in the States. Score one for Luddite media!
Anyway, it's a shame these are being delisted. They're awful games that demonstrate how incapable Konami was with beat-em-ups, but they're a part of people's childhoods, dammit!
unless there's another version, the retail version only has a downloadable code in the box, there's no disc.
atomic moth
Member
I don't think you can buy it if it was given away on PS+ and you are still subscribed.
Edit: nvm. Didn't see the xbla part
yeah, that's very shitty.
AcceptableGhost
Member
there is another version
Phoenix Fang
Banned
Duck Tales Remastered retail version is a disc, bro.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
This actually raises a good question. If you subscribe to PS+ and you have the games as a part of that, do you still lose them, even if you don't unsubscribe?
thekonamicode
Member
And I actually would have bought that!
AcceptableGhost
Member
no there was a retail version that was just a code and a pin
then later they put out a real retail version
kind of weird
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Ah, is that why? I would have bought deadpool in that case.
Why consoles? Because my PS3 copy was a voucher with a pin, nothing else in the box.
Phoenix Fang
Banned
I know about that version but wasn't it only for the PS3?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Apparently they released it for all consoles as disks.... I'm so glad they fucked over first buyers.
Those retail versions were only US PS3, right?
WiiU and X360 as well.
Simpsons was on PS Plus... before rushing to buy the code double check your Plus download list (unless you want it regardless of Plus sub). Glad I just did.
edit - woot, got X-Men from Gamestop. Got an error page when I tried adding it but I went to my cart after that and it was there.
edit - woot, got X-Men from Gamestop. Got an error page when I tried adding it but I went to my cart after that and it was there.
well, good to hear!
at least this'll be around for a while (until it reaches radiant silvergun ebay prices).Good for you, congrats!
Was that on all platforms or just PS3? And also, isn't that just in the US?
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
They knew how to write a contract. That's precisely why Konami can no longer sell these games.
AcceptableGhost
Member
i guess the the lesson is to buy licensed games you have even a mild interest in if they are digital only
Gameboy415
Member
Glad I got X-Men at launch & purchased The Simpsons on PSN when my PS+ sub temporarily lapsed last year!
*phew*
*phew*
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Both require a Marvel license.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Shit's really gonna hit the fan when Live for 360 is taken down.
Small title updates on the 360 get saved to your system cache, not your primary storage. You have no control over how the system handles that patch data. If you go without playing a game for a while, there's a good chance that any patches you've accumulated will be deleted and overwritten without notice. And once you can't sign into Live anymore, you're not getting them back.
I assume this is a holdover from the days when some 360s shipped without hard drives and needed some small storage space to handle this stuff, but it's an unfortunate situation to be in now.
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
Since I can't buy from Gamestop, any fellow Gaffer would help me get me one X-Men voucher from the Gamestop website? I can Paypal the 10 bucks + fees.
Seven Force
Banned
Oh man, after the UMVC3 delistings, I made it a point to buy Simpsons before the same inevitably happened with the Simpsons license. Guess that was a smart move!
CadetMahoney
Member
Especially from MS who aren't really for gamers and will want out once all their marketshare goes to Sony with no hope of getting it back.
If not for the digital marketplaces, these games never would have been rerelased.
cj_iwakura
Member
Simpsons has much more level and enemy variety.
No, the only DLC was Shuma/Jill & the costume packs, all of which are on sale on Xbox Live at the moment. However, they're now gone from PSN, aside from Shuma & Jill on the Vita version.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
It's a dark & bleak future.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Glad I got X-Men at launch and Simpsons when it came out on PS+. Shame it didn't age well from when I played it in the arcades. X-Men's still pretty good, I feel.
I did the same. These two game might not be that great but they are worth $5 each for the nostalgia.
Ninja Turtles Arcade being removed from Xbox Live was a real tragedy though. The game is great and has the perfect amount of continues. It probably my most played arcade purchase.
Can someone confirm this? I think this is no longer true as of maybe a year ago.
Tizoc
Member
Theyve owned them by the time mvc3 was released. Maybe there is a time frame for these series being on digital services?
Imperfected
Member
Hahaha. No.
The entire reason this happens is because of licensing and royalties. Disney-Marvel and the creators of The Simpsons have become much harder to work with, expecting far more restrictive contracts and far higher royalties than they did at the time the games were made.
If Capcom/Konami were to make an "Arcade Collection" they would specifically exclude these games from it to avoid having to deal with the licensing issues and having to pay a significant portion of the revenue to these companies. What you have stated is actually far less likely to have been the outcome than stand-alone releases of these games.
These games failed to see a retail release on three bloody generations of consoles in physical media form. It was never going to happen. Digital gave people a chance to play something they almost certainly never would have had otherwise. I have no idea why you want to twist this so hard to make it some kind of condemnation of digital game sales.
Hell, even if Capcom/Konami didn't have to put up with the licensing problems, I doubt they would have done a physical re-release of these games because they would have been too nervous about the overhead on printing discs for games selling at a low margin. Especially Konami. Motherfuckers don't even use their best IP these days, you think they're going to go out on a limb for fans?
I think that is the point where we all accept that we're going to need to mod our 360's to play the games we fucking legally purchased.
I love beat em ups and was gonna buy The Simpsons and Xmen a couple of days ago because I kept on hearing good things about them.
They were terrible! Compared to SEGA and Capcom's examples they were shitty 1 button mashers. One of the few times I'd throw down the nostalgia goggles card. If only Konami didn't make beat em ups Castle Crashers could have copied from something else and we would be in bliss.
Kinda shitty Konami didn't anounce these games were been taken down, but that's Konami PR for ya
They were terrible! Compared to SEGA and Capcom's examples they were shitty 1 button mashers. One of the few times I'd throw down the nostalgia goggles card. If only Konami didn't make beat em ups Castle Crashers could have copied from something else and we would be in bliss.
Kinda shitty Konami didn't anounce these games were been taken down, but that's Konami PR for ya
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