Could NGP save game companies?

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Joelcool7 said:

Galaki said:

It sounds like a good idea but not practical.

Think about it. You're going to buy the game to play on your PS3 or on your PSP2?

People aren't going to buy the same game twice.

Actually I know of people who bought the handheld versions of many games they owned. My friend Will bought quite a few. I also know another friend who bought a few games on both PS2 and PSP. It does work and a few do buy them both.

Also if Sony makes it so you can transfer save files and acheivements over to your NGP and back people would want to buy both versions so they can play their games on the go.

As well not all NGP owners will own PS3's. Some people buy only handhelds and not home consoles. Other people buy home consoles from one company and handhelds from another. Meaning the NGP is going to be a new market for those people.

However I don't expect Ports to sell as well on NGP as on the home consoles, but they should still sell enough to add alot of sales to the software. it could potentially mean the difference between loosing money or breaking even!

See if devs are smart and they make complementary games, rather than just slightly downgraded version or exact copies, I can see buying both version of a game.

I understand the notion of taking a game im playing on my ps3 and then jump directly into the exact same game while im on the movie why not losing any functionality or graphics, but I'm not sure I would pay near double the price. Rather if each version of the game had unique and fun comeplementary factors that went back and forth between the games, where I can earn something from the portable version, which then shows up in the console version, and vice versa, that could be much more compelling.