cmeese47 said:
scottie said:
billy.amick said:
I love games and have an extensive library but I honestly believe you get way more bang for your buck on PSN and XBLA.
Lets show a prime example.
Dead Rising 2 costs 60 dollars
for that amount on XBLA you can get
The Dead Rising 2 prequel for 5 bucks
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for 15
Shadow Complex for 15
and Limbo for 15
That is just one example and you get 4 games to one.
Now on PSN
Instead of Dead Rising 2
You buy Deathspank Thongs of Virtue 15
Flower 10
Burn Zombie Burn 10
Pixel Junk Shooter 10
and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for 15
You now get 5 full games for the same price as one.
What is the better deal you tell me..
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When a disc based game can get you 100-300 hours of playtime? Definitely a disc based game. In order to get as many hours of playtime as I have got out of Mario Kart, Brawl or the like, I would need to pay hundreds on a downloadable platformer
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Yes there are those nice exceptions but then again I bet you can name like 30 games off the top of your head where 4 or 5 downloadable games would be a much better value.
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Sure, if you pick the shortest disc based games and choose to pay full price for them and pick the longest downloadable games (you have to pay full price for them unless we're talking about steam) then the comparison favours downloading.
If you are sensible, and buy games that either are considerably cheaper than $50-60 (or pay full price if it's a long gfame like Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, or anything with good multiplayer like Brawl, MK or Halo) then retail is the way to go imo
