Mrbob said:
Yeah I wish SCEA would start getting some day and date demos for their PSN titles. It is a little ridiculous they don't have this standard in place when MS requires it. One of the things the 360 marketplace handles better than PSN.
SCEA will never have the standard. Eric Lempel once said it an interview:
Eric Lempel: We've actually offered several demos of downloadable games since PlayStation Store launched, including a demo for Blast Factor, which was a launch title, as well as Nucleus, Lemmings, Go! Sudoku, PixelJunk Racers, Super Puzzle Fighter II, etc. You can expect to continue seeing more free demos of downloadable titles in the future.
It's something that SCEA encourages developers to do, but it is ultimately up to each developer to make that decision. We want PlayStation Network to be as open as possible and not restrictive for developers, some of whom may have smaller teams and need to devote all of their resources to shipping a great title vs. creating a demo.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50380
When there was a comparison somewhere before on how well games sold having a demo, just trailer, or no demo and no trailer, games usually sold the best on PSN with just a video, which is another reason most devs do that. It also doesn't help that a demo can ruin many games, since it can be hard for it to represent the final product. Everyday Shooter, each stage is different, appealing to different people. Using the first stage which some might not like, could hurt them from buying the game, although they may like the rest of the game. Crash Commando would also be a bit hard because single player isn't exactly exciting (online is where its at), but some sort of online demo may give to much where people don't see a reason to buy. As long as sales continues to be higher for games lacking demos, there probably won't be a change on PSN. I don't see the situation getting better with SCEA now
charging publishers $0.16 per gigabyte for every 1GB downloaded of their content, in order to pay the bandwidth fees to keep PSN free.
As far as Kung Fu lacking online, I just see one of the two things happening if it did have online:
-People complaining its way too lazy and unplayable online (kind of like how LBP and some games can be).
-People complaining about its online setup.
-People complaining there's too many disconnection problems or problems connecting.
I'm going to buy the game, but I have to wait a little on making purchases.