Point is: no $1-$1.50 fee for the privilege of playing your previously purchased games on your new device with a handful of new features. Keep in mind that the Vita has specific/new features for PS1 titles as well... for free.
This is still, all after taking BC out of PS3 at launch, charging for expensive memory cards for play on Vita (and to a lesser extent, PSP), and having you buy the games all over again, even if you were already playing them on an old BC PS3. It's not like they had all this stuff straight from attempt 1 on PS3 either.
And ignoring the point that the PS3 has nothing like Miiverse attached to any of it's games, so global sharing of screenshots and such with an online community from within the game/system is totally out of the question.
And again, the point that Sony's portables are playing-catch-up to Nintendo's... of course some of their portable offering are going to appear generous, in order to try and ramp up the system popularities.
And what Sony-provided way is there to freely transfer my saves between all these consoles? I had to buy a memory card unit for PS1 to PC saves. There's no PS2 card reader slot on PS3. Even with Plus, I'm pretty sure there's no way to share saves between PS3 and PSV on PS1 games, I've asked in the Vita thread before, as I wanted to play Alundra between both. Unlike the Wii U, the PSV came with no system memory off hand, and I can't even begin to think about playing my shared games on the Vita without buying memory cards that cost almost the price of a system for good storage size.
Sony offers a nice gesture, but it's silly to think they're not offering these things in order to make up some money on development cost, same as Nintendo.
Why does everyone keep ignoring that all of these various options have their own positive sides, as well as negatives? Why do people continue to act like each option exist in a vaccum, without any outside factors influencing the various methods and price points?
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As a gamer, these complaints over these small chuncks of change... In 10 years, if I payed $9.99 for Final fantasy tactics on PSN, or 13 dollars for an 8-Dollar download of Secrets of Mana +1 dollar each for the next 3 generations of Nintendo consoles, and 2 dollars for the 4th... Am I really going to care, if I got 10 years of fun out of those puchases?
I get so much more out of my gaming dollar NOW a days, than I used to in the past. Even with "nickle and dime" content now, I also get free patches left and right, and very often, multiplayer that's not limited to the friends I could invite to a house, or the people I could find in my area, who like my taste.
I get 10 and 15 dollar downloadable games that last as long as many console games I had in the past. For the price of rentals, I get full games I can keep.
What I once paid 50 dollars to get and use on a system for 4 years, I now smetimes pay 5, 8, 10, or 15 dollars to get, and play on the next 2 or 3 generations of console going forward, as is the case with many PS1 games.
I used to have to wait a year or more for a game to drop 20 dollars on sale. Now you have deals that do such a thing in a few weeks. I NEVER got a game for less than 20 dollars during some of these system generations. Now I can walk into places and get 4 or 6 month old games for 4.97, 6.75, 9.98...
Compared to the prices of everything else I enjoyed as a kid, Gaming has become oddly cheaper. While my old 3.99 action figures now go for 12.99, sometimes with less articulation and cheaper parts, many games that rival what I'd spend 20 dollars + on a visit to the arcade to play, can now be had for 7.99 / 9.99, without a need to even travel anywhere to get, or play it.
In light of it all, some of these complaints just seem so ridiculous. Heck yeah, I would have payed a dollar to be able to share my scores on Milon's Secret Castle with a few friends, after buying the game a few months back. Heck yeah I would have payed a Dollar to show some of my favorite moments of Rollergames, Kabuki Quantum Fighter, and T&C surf designs to someone, NOONE knew what this stuff was back then!
I would have loved to have been able to pay a buck-fifty to be able to play Run Saber on a handheld unit, while my brother wanted to watch TV.
We can get SO MUCH with our games, for comparatively so LITTLE now, that even the little stuff becomes an issue! Oy.