S.T.A.G.E. said:
OdinHades said:
Demos are a thing of the past. Today, instead of getting some magazine with a demo disc, you get yourself PS+ or Xbox Live and get some full games every month. "But those aren't the games I want to try!", you might say. However, you also didn't have a choice which demos were on the disc back in the days.
With the heavy media presence today, countless reviews and videos along with things like share play, I don't think demos are needed anymore. It just eats into the already little time development teams have at their hands to make a game. So no sir, please no more demos. Let them rest in peace. |
Interesting, seeing that demos and trailers are present in stores to sell consoles to the consumer first hand. They aren't resting in peace...they are only being used to sell consoles. The people who give us our reviews and previews online get exclusive access to them and then tell us how good or bad the games are rather than us being able to form an opinion. Think of it as democracy. Companies allow representatives who are given hits, ratings or views to and they in turn give a subjective response in only the most human way possible. That's just the thing these days. We should have access to what these people have played even if it's late. Nintendo and Sony have done a great job with demos at best buy. It's one of the things that convinced me for the first time in years that the wii u was for me this gen.
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Yeah, but it's not like we got to play every journalists demo there was in the 90s. Also, there is more than just traditional gamesites. With Youtube, Twitch and whatnot, you have countless private people showing the games so I'm pretty certein you can form yourself a pretty good opinion on a game.
I just think that demos are not worth the effort these days. What makes more sense is what Sony did with the full games you could try for an hour. That's more than enough to get an idea of a game and it doesn't need extra work. It's also completely hones because you later get exactly what you saw. That principle could get also more interesting with PS Now, where you don't even need to download a game before playing it. You just play instantly. Streaming might not be perfect in every way, but it's the way to go for trying out games. I think that's where the future of demos is. It already worked flawlessly for PC on Gaikai some years ago. It may still take some time for mass availability, but it will be there sometime. The need for traditional demos is gone for good, they won't come back. Just like passwords won't come back or games on modules.
