| Teflon02 said:
No backwards logic is to take the time to bring the game to the west and not give it the support it needs to survive. I agree 100%. I skipped plenty of titles because of that. If they're releasing a ps4 version they're already playing it safe. No excuse not to have physical on ps vita if another platform has. What people don't understand is you're advertising you game by having a physical release, Namco plus other companies have been happy with Vita sales so far in most cases. Physical releases will help. Here in Canada it's approx $56 and change after tax for a new physical vita game on average (Re;Birth 3 was that price as example) and only $34.99-$39.99 for that same game digital. I always go physical either way. Owning a game digitally just isn't a everyone type of thing. |
They are giving it the support it needs to survive. They're porting it to PS4, a console with a healthy userbase and a healthy software ecosystem.
No excuse not to have physical on PS Vita? I can think of plenty of reasons why not to have physical on PS Vita. Stronger digital adoption rate among owners in general; niche franchise with small sales potential in west; weak Vita software ecosystem in the west; plenty of major retailers unwilling to stock Vita games in the west. Take your pick.
And yes, you're advertising a game by having a physical release. And you're paying for that advertising by all the extra costs that go in to shipping a physical version. Costs which are going to make it more difficult to be profitable on unless you have bigger sales numbers - sales numbers which presumably aren't going to be recouped merely by advertising.
Listen - I want Vita physical releases in the west, I'm almost collecting them at this point (not as much as Mikerox, but nearly). But I can completely understand the arguments for not releasing physically, and I'm not under some allusion that Vita's in a place where owners can demand physical release or not buy the game at all (because guess what? the response will be "not at all")
