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FishyJoe said:

Does anyone wonder why Sony or MS haven't copied Wii Play? Seems it would be a simple matter to create some mini-game or demo, perhaps even a platinum title, to include with a controller and charge a couple bucks more. Is it pride or something?

GT5P would have seemed like the perfect time to adopt this strategy.


That is... a very good point... and a good idea.

Maybe even just a few Xbox live arcade games on a disc, like they did with the Arcade 360.  



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Sony has Eyes of Judgement and WarHawk bundles. And in case you haven't noticed, they aren't selling as hot as Link's cross-bow.

PS360 is slowly starting to have completely oppose gamers. What worked on Nintendo, doesn't mean it will work automatically on PS360.



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Legend11 said:
Sony will copy it eventually, they seem to copy everything else.

I can practically taste the bitter tears.



Seems like a good thing to do considering how little Nintendo spent to develop casual games and the ridiculously high returns they are getting for them



 

 

How many people buy a PS3 to play mini-games on it? I feel the wii has went overboard with mini-games as they are beginning to get tiresome. Wii sports still seem the best of all the mini-games.



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It's not about how many people would just buy the game. It's about how many want to buy a new controller AND would be willing to spend an extra $10-20 for some throw in. That extra money becomes pure profit over time and becomes a notch in the belt when it charts week after week.

Also, Warhawk and EoJ are totally different. Those controllers aren't the standard controllers that everyone buys.



I dont think there would be a huge market for it. Most of all the people that are into those kinds of games are buying Wiis. This is why those games are selling well in the first place.



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I think a controller + PSN card bundle would be a great package . Advertise a bunch of eligible PSN games on the back of the package. Instead of giving the card a monetary value, simply make it good for any one game listed, or if the consumer wants a game (or content) that isn't listed, give it a fixed value. Add $5 versus the price of a standalone controller and the consumer can choose whatever they want like super stardust, pixel junk monsters, everyday shooter, high velocity bowling, etc. would be good way to ease people into buying digital content.

Alternatively, they could do a "best of PSN" on a single blu-ray but then you have the added cost so it doesn't seem like a good idea in this context.

sony should be paying me for these ideas! i think the first one is pretty good.



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sony and ms are to "good" and "bigg" to adopt this idea.



Maybe just wouldn't play as well as it does in the wii.

And about why they haven't done a smash brothers, they have no famous, legendary cast of characters to work with. That anime fighter might have worked but anime isn't that huge here and people won't see it as a smash brother type game but more like a dbz fighting game and theres loads of those.