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rakugakist on 24 December 2015
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ganoncrotch said:
rakugakist said:

I really don't understand why some people don't seem to understand this. The games are 10 to 15 years old, and if you own the software, I would assume you'd also own the system to play them on, sure it isn't as convenient, but if you want to play the low res SD versions of these games, hook up your PS2. If you want to play higher res versions of these games with extra features and trophies, buy the game for 10 to 15 dollars. It really isn't that expensive. Sony is not gorging you or ripping you off. They're offering you a better product at a fairly cheap price. Don't like it, don't buy it. Simple.

And has no one ripping this practice apart upgraded a movie they really love from DVD to Blu-Ray?

 

Not sure I understand this right, I mean on the most basic level if you had a blu-Ray player chances are it would perfectly play DVD discs, it'd be very rare to find a player which didn't, so while you could well have the option of going from the ps2 version to a upscaled to 1080p version from the psn store... it is the lack of the option to simply use the original which makes this comparison fall apart.

You could have picked VHS to DVD at least there a DVD player wouldn't play a VHS for obvious reasons, but when the system functionally is capable of playing the media, charging for the option to play the older format on an individual game basis is not the same. If you could have a 1 off payment of the ps2 emulation software running on the ps4 for say 100 or so, I would imagine a lot of people would have no issues paying that fee to add the feature onto their ps4.


I don't think you get the process of emulating the Emotion Engine on the PS4.  I also don't fully understand it, but I'm sure it costs more than a Blu-Ray player having a red laser and a blue laser to read both formats.  And as someone else stated earlier in this discussion, Sony has to get money back to developers for the right to play on a new format.

I'll admit, that last analogy was poor, because the Video Game industry is not the same as the movie industry.  DVD's are still available for sell on almost all titles, meaning you can still buy old movies on DVD brand new.  Then the movie company still gets money in their pocket.  Games are not the same.  I can't walk into Target and buy GTA III on the PS2 brand new.  So for Rockstar to allow their games to be played on new hardware, they want some money.

And to anyone who keeps saying Microsoft is doing it right, I find it funny that the majority of their 360 games playable on the Xbox One are Microsoft published titles.  I haven't seen any announcements for Rockstar games like Red Dead, because I'm sure Rockstar would rather release it as a downloadable title so they can make money.

So I guess my point is that the movie industry and the video game industries are completely different.  But I'm sure some people had no problem shelling out an extra 15 bucks to upgrade a favorite movie of theirs to Blu-Ray.