KylieDog said:
Chark said:
KylieDog said:
Retro City Rampage out on EU PSN this week.
I hope none of you buy it and none of you support delayed SCEE releases. SCEE will keep dumping on is customers until you stop supporting it. |
I don't think doing that would have the intended effect you are looking for. If anything, it could be make it worse and leave EU without releases all together. Some devs just don't have the means to simultaneous release in different territories, while sometimes games are delayed due to regional laws. No one is trying to "dump on its customers" by staggering release dates. If it isn't ready for a territory, it isn't ready. The only way around it for a company without the money to do simultaneous is to delay the launch in the territory were it is first finished, which is valuable retail time and doesn't benefit anyone.
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MS doesn't have this issue, games release in US and EU day and date, often games will release in US/EU on XBL and US on PSN...and SCEE PSN is the only one without it. RCR has now already seen a discount on US PSN and been on US Playstation Plus.
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Like MikeRox said, it could be Microsoft, but I'd more likely believe that the discrepancy is because Microsoft forces the publisher to release simultaneously while Sony allows them leverage. Though there could be a lot of reasons factoring into it, it is not because they are trying to screw over EU. Microsoft does push around exclusivity rights though, I'm not sure to what extent that means over in EU, things are handled differently for each region.
