| theprof00 said: @bolded- You're right. Some were nearly 1000$. A 600$ ps3 was literally described as the best BR player on the market for the price. Maybe you've missed it, but we aren't talking about BR in it's 7th year of life, we are talking about when BR was first released, where there were droughts. When porting Harry Potter meant the studio couldn't port casablanca (for instance) and studios had to decide which movies to port and which could wait. The problem with the "disappointment" is that the people saying "we'd rather have a new game than a port" are being ridiculous. That was never a choice. The choice was "port or no port", not "port or new game". It's not a big deal, and it's not a valid complaint. The only criticism that even has any merit would be that of the ps3 owner who bought last of us thinking it would be exclusive, but was planning to buy a ps4 and could've saved his money for the ps4 version. |
You can try to rationalize it all you want, you're still comparing two different markets. People buy these Bluray machines to play the exact same movies only with better resolution and potentially sound. You can watch The Matrix on DVD and BR back to back. On BR the movie looks sharper and can sound better, but it's still the exact same lines, same dialogue. People don't buy new consoles to play the exact same games with higher resolution.
Honestly, if you were in line somewhere and you saw some dude returning a Bluray because it was the exact same movie he already owns on DVD, wouldn't you think he is a moron? Meanwhile if the next gen exclusive Ass Creed came out and turned out to be just Ass Creed 2 with HD graphics and better sound, people would go apeshit. There are different expectations and demands because they are two different markets. So yes, I can see someone buying an HD version of a movie they already own because they want to watch that movie in HD. I can also see someone buying an HD version of a game they already own because they want to play it in HD. And at the same time, I can see someone being bummed/pissed that they want a new experience for their new console and all Sony has for them until The Order is an HD port of a game released less than a year ago that they likely have already played.
The bolded part just shows how opinions work. You say a person who bought LoU thinking it was PS3 exclusive has a right to complain, why? There is no logical reason. Just like there is no proof that Sony was in a position to make this port or make a whole new next gen game, there's no proof Sony ever said LoU was a forever ironclad PS3 exclusive. Yet, in your opinion, that complaint has merit. Well, in my opinion, the other complaint has merit. Isn't it grand? Toodles.
