Do you see 3rd parties supporting crossbuy?

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Chark said:

sales2099 said:

Is this speculation or what they are actually doing? 

In the end, its giving away a free game and losing out on money. Its a band-aid solution to poor Vita sales, and this certainly isnt the road to go to bring them in league with what 3DS is pulling in. 

It's not losing out on money though because practically no one at all buys the same game twice. It would probably cost them more to discount the game by a $1 or something, at least that would be almost 2%. I wish we had the results from that survey Sony put out about this, then I could be sure, but you get my point. The loss of sales is so low that even a small amount of people buying cross buy games that otherwise wouldn't would probably make them more money than they could possibly lose out on.

In the end though it makes you wonder why they would want to attract a handheld clientbase to a home console clientbase and vice versa since the company supporting crossbuy would be making games available on both platforms.

I guess though this invalidates one of the points you made earlier, it does support the idea that one same dev gets ultimately more exposure since, instead of making games available on one single plat it makes it avialable on 2 and thus expands the consumerbase for all their games, without segmenting their offerings.

Interesting proposition I'm begining to see.