Do you see 3rd parties supporting crossbuy?

[Chark]

happydolphin said:

Chark said:

Incentives for gamers are incentives for sales, they are the ones buying after all. The question is to what effect will it have.

You seem to be confusing the issue by linking cost to develop a port on Vita with the cross buy feature. Developers already port their games and cross buy is not part of their decision to port in the first place, it's to acces a different install base and to make their game more accessible to consumers. Adding crossbuy is another subject, no one is using cross buy as an incentive to pot but as an feature for existing or future ports. The disincentive is loosing people who buy both, but that demographic is severally limited so this list of incentives provides an argument as to why doing cross buy could yeild greater ROI while not eliminating the ROI used to justify porting which is to access the user base that only owns one console.

@bold. I know that, I'm not retarded. I'm just not convinced there is enough demand to attract considerable sales, especially sales that would sell HW like you mentioned.

Yes, now that I understand that it costs nothing, I understand what you mean. But how is it possible, how does it not cost anything, is the Vita truly 100% compatible with the PS3? Is it streamed? I am confused.

Yeah, it would be nice to know the demand but we will have to wait and see. For developers though, this is pretty low risk.

I'm not saying it doesn't cost to port, it does, but it is pretty easy so pretty cheap. Cross buy is an additional feature developers could tack on that won't lose them sales but might attract customers. Developers are porting games to Vita anyway, they've decided the costs to port are cheap enough to do it. Not all developers will or want to lose even a small amount of time by porting a game so they won't. A recent article mentioned that PS4 will have a developing environment similar to PC so similar to Vita, meaning porting is going to get even cheaper which almost makes me think Sony is just planning to have digital PS4 games to run on Vita too like how minis and PS1 classics run on both, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Cross buy is for developers who already ported or are going to port anyway. If they all jump on board people might find themselves wanting a Vita which will be great for everyone. Developers aren't gaining anything by not cross buying their ports and theymight even encourage Vita owners to buy the $60 PS3 game with cross buy instead of the $40 Vita game alone, I guess that's an extra $20 from someone who originally wanted the Vita version only.