Ruler said:
Vodacixi said:
Kerotan said:
Vodacixi said:
I just can't see why so many people goes with Sony's 2013 presentation. They just said that they were doing something that it has been implied to exist since the conception of gaming consoles. They just stressed it. Nintendo also lets you share and buy second hand games. Hell, Sony had done it with all his previous consoles. Whats the deal? I understand the hate to Microsoft and the Xbox, but not the love that Sony recieved that day.
Anyway... Nintendo 2009 all the way. Metroid Other M, Golden Sun DS (good Lord, I came when I saw that), Sin and Punishment 2, Zelda Spirit Tracks, Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii... and the artwork for Skyward Sword. Epic.
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Because sony is Microsoft's rival. Sony could have followed Microsoft and taken the more profitable anti consumer route. Everyone would have eventually accepted it and the core of the home console market would be fucked over by those policies. I firmly believe the likes of EA, UBISOFT and Activision were pushing hard for them.
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They charge us for the goddamn online just as Microsoft did first. The fuck. A Sony that can do that can eventually go against second hand in the future. They just played safe and took advantage of Microsoft being dumb now. Just wait.
Anyway, I still think that keeping doing what you've been always doing has no merit. At all. Even if your rival does the opposite. The reaction of the crowd was exagerated.
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Difference here is that charging for online gives sony money. What would DRM give to sony? They wouldnt profit from it unlike third parties like ea and activision. I think they pushed MS for it easpacially EA just look at their EA access deal, seems both have a bromance in closed doors.
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That's not entirely true. Second hand market always hurts a publisher to a greater or lesser degree. If I decide to buy Halo 5 to a friend instead of purchasing it in the store, Microsoft is not making any profit of that deal. So yeah, taking that down does, indeed, benefit Microsoft. A lot? Almost nothing? I dunno, but definitley something.
That being said: 1. Just to clarify, I don't care if a publisher don't earn money from second hand market. That market is in literally every product and nobody says shit about taking it down. So Microsoft could fuck itself. And 2... you say this like if some policy helps the company to make some profit is justified whatever that policy is, but if not, its horrible. Okay...
