| Zekkyou said: Why buy a console now, when you could buy it cheaper in 5 years and have hundreds of low price games? Why go to see a film at the cinema when you could get it on DVD later? Why get it on DVD when you could wait and see it on TV? Why buy an iPhone now, when you could wait 2 years for it to be cheaper? Why ever buy anything new at all? |
Not applicable. Movies, books, the console itself, iPhones, etc, do not have eventual DLC. What you buy is what you get, theres no magical "the complete version" sans a director's cut for a movie since no one is going to sit in a movie theater for 6 hours to watch the Lord of the Rings. Disney likes to pull this same bullshit by rereleasing the same thing over and over, and calling it something special but at least they don't tend to add in content to the package.
I buy a book new? The book will be the same book later. I don't have to wait for the "definitive version" nor would I ever expect one. Same for hardware. Same for just about everything. Nowadays with games though? Short of Nintendo (they barely even market their games at this point) and a few other publishers, I have to pause and ask myself do I really want to buy this "X" new when I know, not long down the road, DLC will be launched and, not long after, deals will go out with "buy X get Y free! Get the complete experience". Why should I pay out of the nose for the fresh game, then the DLC, when I can just wait and get both for cheaper? The only reason this mindset even exists is because publishers have made it this way.
And as I said, in a vacuum, I'd be fine with it for the most part. Its when you take into account that this is breeding the hype-culture and the two are basically results of one another, that it really looks ugly from my point of view. Games are already getting chopped up piecemeal by M$/Sony for "exclusive" bonuses before they've even launched, and games are promising and asking people to buy DLC before the game is even out... only to a little later release the Definitive Version for 40$. I hate it when Pokemon does this too with their "third" version.
