DrDoomz said:
I strongly disagree. 1) Yes, it is a cash grab but no, it is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm assuming that your statement of "no one likes it and it doesn't help gamers to support it" is purely an opnion, not fact? As evidenced by my use of the words "My take." For future reference, when reading any posts from anyone on these forums you should consider their content to be opinion. Even when they do not perform the courtesy, as I did, of clarifying that thats all their post is. 2) Where are you basing "tiny, tiny market?" Especially now that UK sales are out and it's not exactly looking tiny. Joethebro and I had some discussion of this above. Sony's stated target market, if we're to believe their studies (for which we have no methodology), cannot be more than 3 million consoles. 3) A "price gouge" is a practice used during times of high necessity (such as food shortages) where there is very high elasticity of demand to charge ridiculously unreasonable prices to maximize profits at the cost of your consumers. At the very least your use of the term "price gouge" is an exaggeration. I agree that in an definitional sense, a price gouge (just realised I mispelt it earlier!) is an economic term, and I applied hyperbole in using it here. It is one of the more superfluous uses of hyperbole in this thread thus far, however. 4) Again, where is your basis for "worth to a FEW people with money to burn"? Especially when there is a clear target market for this? The clear target market is 3 million consoles. Again, this makes me doubt that Sony is hoping to sell just to those people. Though I am confident that anyone that can spend $50 on this game, and $400 on a PS4, has money to burn. Even more so if they have already played the same game on PS3. 5) Yes, it did use up resources. But you do understand that there are development benefits to releasing a profitable remaster that can impact games developed in the future? Easily outweighing the short term costs. But you're right, without insider knowledge, we'll never know one way or another. So why talk about it? Because we're here to talk about games? Honestly, I have an opinion, its a reasonable one. I am perhaps the only person in this thread that went out of his way to flag his views as an opinion. In my opinion the redirecting of first party developers away from new content towards upscaling a game barely a year old is a cynical cash grab, not in the best interests of gamers. The fact that you would call (or at least heavily imply in your langauge) ppl suckers (you might as well be calling them "idiots") for supporting something you don't agree with is pretty disappointing. I have already apologised for my use of this language if it offended anyone. I have not, nor would I call anyone an idiot or a sucker, so please do not put words into my mouth. What I did say is that I feel Sony's attitude was that they could monetise the same content again, to the same people. Anecdotally, it appears they have been successful in doing this (as you point out, UK sales were strong) - my point was that they viewed the market as a sucker for repackaged content (at full price originally). Sorry again if that was not properly articulated. |
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