| Alkibiádēs said: Yeah, I'm not giving multi-billion dollar companies my money for unfinished products. I wonder what the reactions in this thread (or on the internet) would be if Nintendo decided to do this. |
Good, the products on offer actually are pretty much finished (I assume details can still be changed if there is big demand among the supporters), they just wouldn't go into production without this "funding" (it's more like a preorder really). Market research probably indicated low consumer interest so the higher ups decided against releasing them via the normal retail channels.
Like this the consumer misses out on many production ready products each year and that site empowers people to at least make a small production run happen for the goods they are interested in (once in a blue moon a product may even garner enough demand for a later full-scale production/retail release this way). And contrary to Kickstarter there is consumer protection - a big company like Sony wouldn't want to tarnish their reputation especially among their most loyal customers (who I expect to make up the bulk of the users of that platform).
So spare me the implicated "you are hypocrites" accusation, when your post shows you didn't spent any time investigating and thinking through what the website is actually about.
