oh i know. i already have hot shots, wipeout, uncharted, and lbp preordered for 25 each from bestbuy.ca.Than the MSRP, sure, but you can still get Hot Shots from Amazon for $29, digital seems to be $35.99. I'm sure Amazon will have way more sales than PSN will in the future too.
Sucks, but I'm the stubborn one sticking to my all digital future, so I have no one to blame but myself.
is that Gotham city impostors for Vita??I just got back from Best Buy. They have one of their employees carrying the system around on his neck to demo. No kiosk for Vita it seems. They only had Little Deviants to try, but I was more interested in the other functions anyway.
The screen is unreal. Large does not begin to describe it. The shots online dont do it justice either. I was really impressed with the movie trailers they had stored on the memory card. The playback might not have been true HD, but at that small size, it looks damn close.
The analog sticks were also a bit surprising. At first touch they dont feel like they have the mobility to get the job done. Compared to the Dual Shock or 360 pads, these dont move far enough in every direction. However, after about ten minutes I adjusted and they felt fine. They dont stick out nearly as far as the pictures make them seem either, so that was a plus.
Anyway, has anyone mentioned that the digital copies of games seem to be $5 cheaper than the physical cards? Best Buy has a number of games in their pre-order machine, that I can only assume, are codes that you use to download the games off PSN.
Heres a photo of their titles and prices:
Super Stardust for $10 is good news.
Stardust at $10 is a surprise? Super Stardust HD launched on the PS3 for $10 -- anything more than that would be ridiculous unless this version is stuffed to the brim with content.Cheaper than PSN-XBL games like Limbo? No way. Having Stardust or Hustle king for $9.99 is a surprise, not the Escape Plan price.
Looks like 10% actually.
is that Gotham city impostors for Vita??
Stardust at $10 is a surprise? Super Stardust HD launched on the PS3 for $10 -- anything more than that would be ridiculous unless this version is stuffed to the brim with content.
Escape Plan doesn't seem as deep of a title as Limbo was. I haven't played it at all though, so I guess I don't really know.
If you go in stores you can pre-order the digital titles at Gamestop.
Hustle Kings | $9.99
Super StarDust Delta | $9.99
Escape Plan | $14.99
Stardust at $10 is a surprise? Super Stardust HD launched on the PS3 for $10 -- anything more than that would be ridiculous unless this version is stuffed to the brim with content.
Escape Plan doesn't seem as deep of a title as Limbo was. I haven't played it at all though, so I guess I don't really know.
10% off? Haha. Won't buy any game on the PSN then.
Looks like 10% actually.
10% off is not a bad start. I hope that they get a bit more aggressive on game sales and promotions on PSN.
Any word of midnight releases yet?
I usually keep all my games but I'm not willing to pay almost the same when Sony/the publisher saves a lot of money.I'll buy games that I absolutely plan to keep on PSN.
Have you taken a look at the chart we got a while back? Retail margin accounts for about 20% of a game's price. If they cut out the middle man, the savings should be passed onto me. Otherwise I'll just continue to support my local game store, pay almost the same price and do something for the local economy.People are weird.
"I DEMAND A CHEAPER PRICE ON PSN BECAUSE REASONS"
"It's 10% cheaper on PSN"
"THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, I'M GOING TO BUY ALL OF MY GAMES AT RETAIL BECAUSE STUFF"
People are weird.
"I DEMAND A CHEAPER PRICE ON PSN BECAUSE REASONS"
"It's 10% cheaper on PSN"
"THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, I'M GOING TO BUY ALL OF MY GAMES AT RETAIL BECAUSE STUFF"
People are weird.
"I DEMAND A CHEAPER PRICE ON PSN BECAUSE REASONS"
"It's 10% cheaper on PSN"
"THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, I'M GOING TO BUY ALL OF MY GAMES AT RETAIL BECAUSE STUFF"
Well, it's true....it's not that big of a discount. What else should I say?
Yeah the memory card business is a scam. You are basically paying the game content and game hardware separated.With download caps and memory stick space at a premium, 10% isn't enough to have people switch to download only.
Well, it's true....it's not that big of a discount. What else should I say?
"I will buy it at a higher price at retail. I feel good giving cache monies to Gamestop my holy overlord".
That is true. I havnt forgotten about this, i actually wrote it in a previous post here, but i think i edited out to cut down on a lengthy reply.It seems like people have forgotten the circumstances that let to PS3 dropping PS2 BC.
The first run systems cost $600 (estimated BOM $850) and had PS2's chips on the board. You can play virtually every PS2 game, with saves stored on PS3's HDD. It's a nearly perfect implementation.
Then in the mad rush to slash PS3's bill of materials, the PS2 CPU was removed from PS3's motherboard, leaving only the PS2 graphics chipset. PS2 games could still be played on PS3 via software emulation of the CPU albeit with slightly less compatibility (though significantly more than 360 supported at the time).
In November 2007, Sony was able to get within spitting distance of Xbox360's $400 price when they launched the 40GB model, which dropped all backwards compatibility. This was the period where sales picked up significantly.
If PS3 wasn't dying on the vine at $600, there's no telling if decisions would be made differently. I'm sure Sony would love to be selling (significantly more) PS2 games on the PSN store. BC was just the sad casualty of the market.
I'm seriously considering buying a Vita, but I haven't been following these threads much, so pardon my dumb question. It's fully b/c with digital PSP games, right? I never owned a PSP, but I have a few remote play games as well as a few digital PSP games I got for free through the years. I'd like to be able to finally play those games.
There will be constant sales at retail stores that will be a hell of a lot better than 10%.But it's a discount. Cheaper than buying it in the shops in most cases...
lol. $24.99 Hot Shots Golf, $30 WipEout and $35 Uncharted from Amazon. What?
Have fun carrying this around people:
Yes that is correct.
But it's a discount. Cheaper than buying it in the shops in most cases...
Have fun carrying this around people:
lol. $24.99 Hot Shots Golf, $30 WipEout and $35 Uncharted from Amazon. What?
Oh, like that. That is why i was hoping for to get some techincal readup on how the PS2 emulator stuff works for PS3, if it is something more of a general emulator or if it requires custom tweaking to get a game to work properly. If it is custom tweaking, then it makes sense why playing the game from a disc wouldnt work (at least not properly).
It seems like people have forgotten the circumstances that let to PS3 dropping PS2 BC.
The first run systems cost $600 (estimated BOM $850) and had PS2's chips on the board. You can play virtually every PS2 game, with saves stored on PS3's HDD. It's a nearly perfect implementation.
Then in the mad rush to slash PS3's bill of materials, the PS2 CPU was removed from PS3's motherboard, leaving only the PS2 graphics chipset. PS2 games could still be played on PS3 via software emulation of the CPU albeit with slightly less compatibility (though significantly more than 360 supported at the time).
In November 2007, Sony was able to get within spitting distance of Xbox360's $400 price when they launched the 40GB model, which dropped all backwards compatibility. This was the period where sales picked up significantly.
If PS3 wasn't dying on the vine at $600, there's no telling if decisions would be made differently. I'm sure Sony would love to be selling (significantly more) PS2 games on the PSN store. BC was just the sad casualty of the market.