PS4 Discussion

[Force-Destruct]

They will remain as is. The pay online is only for PS4.

Though if you have a Vita and a PS3, PS+ is an excellent deal just for the instant game collection alone. It paid for itself within a month given the games I got for freeish that I otherwise would've purchased.

I'm not at e3, but the grips are longer. The L2 and R2 buttons are now more trigger shaped too.

I was curious about the PS+ thing since it was never mentioned really. My current PS+ subscription just ended (since I was waiting for E3 to see if there was gonna be any changes to PS+, for better or for worse.

I'll just renew for about 2 years and take it from there.

 

[franman]

Here's what I don't get.

If used game sales are so detrimental to gaming companies, why when EA's previous CEO, John Riccitiello introduced online pass with all the other restrictions and micro-transactions to prevent used game sales, the company was losing money? Not to mention EA being nominated as the worse company in America.

Let's not forget back then before any of this happened EA was making a lot of revenue and used games were existent.

Also name me any gaming company that has gone bankrupt due to used game sales?

 

[Frayhua]

PSN Plus Is Mandatory On PS4 So Sony Can Improve The Service

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Play...ltiplayer-Helps-Improve-Features-361027.shtml

 

[Force-Destruct]

About the wrong controller pic, I already fixed it.

 

[Madnis]

Here's what I don't get.

If used game sales are so detrimental to gaming companies, why when EA's previous CEO, John Riccitiello introduced online pass with all the other restrictions and micro-transactions to prevent used game sales, the company was losing money? Not to mention EA being nominated as the worse company in America.

Let's not forget back then before any of this happened EA was making a lot of revenue and used games were existent.

Also name me any gaming company that has gone bankrupt due to used game sales?

okay.. used games sales aren't detrimental to gaming sales when the game turns a profit. it's detrimental to gaming sales when it doesn't turn a profit. IJ isn't wrong when he says used games don't go back to the publisher. They don't. that money goes to the retailer. Now if a game is popular, the retailers will want more copies of the game. So they'll buy more of that game from the publisher to sell to the consumer. Meanwhile, the retailer also resells used copies of that game.

simple supply and demand.

but if the game isn't selling well, Used or new, why would a retailer want more copies of the game? So they put their investments elsewhere. meanwhile the publisher still needs to turn a profit off of that game. If the game costs millions of dollars to make and they need to sell at least 10 million copies to turn a profit, but they only sold 2 million, how do they recoup their losses?

Notice, i'm not mentioning the developer. why? because the developer's got their fucking money already. They developed the game. and they sold it to the publishers. They didn't get paid for it all, no. But they got paid. the rest comes once the game is shipped and sold. But if it undersold they don't see that money at all. Anyway, I'm about to get the Last of Us. I'll talk more later.