KBG29 said:
Why do people insist on physical media in a handheld? Do people use their brains at all anymore? Go return a PSP game after 3 weeks and see what you get for it. Gamestop will maybe give you $10, on ebay you may get $15. Who is that hard up? Secondly, if you are only going to keep something for a month go rent it 1 time. It's about 5 dollars to rent a game at most video stores, and they have any late fees, plus that is way less than buying and selling games.
Physical media on a handheld in now is as backwards as using horses to pull your Camry. We have digital services now were you can by something under an account, and own it forever. Download it to up to 5 active devices at a time, as many times as you want.
If you loose 15 UMDS and your PSP at the airport its all gone. If your loose your PSP Go with 50 games on it, call Sony and have it deactivated, buy a new PSP and redownload all of your games.
But I don't have fast, any, enough internet/bandwidth. There are free wifi locations all over the place. If you can't drive to find a spot to download games, you won't be able to drive to buy a physical copy either.
I could go on for days about the many advantages of digital media versus physical media on a mobile device, but it would be worthless, because people have lost all common sense. |
Rubbish. Judging by the lack of success of the psp go, I am sure that very few people would want a download only games console. I think you are forgetting a few important things
Firstly, what about those people who dont have an internet connection? They could buy the psp1000-4000 and play all their games SP. Now they can't even GET the games. Don't say " oh yes they can find a wifi connection", who actually does that?
Two, yes if I bought say 5 games and after half a year or so i wanted some new ones, yes i would sell them on ebay. Id probably get 30-40 pounds for them which im not just going to throw away.Its not that people are hard up on cash, its the fact that if they dont want to play a game anymore coz its boring or they have completed it, if its download only they have to keep it, but with discs they can sell it and get some money towards a new game. Finally most important thing of all to many people- price. You would think that since the publishers dont have to pay to create the game disc itself, the manual, the case and then pay money for stores to stock it the price would be lower yes? But they are not. Sony has basically got a monopoly on the price of these games and most of them stay at RRP for ages. If i go into a gamestation etc, id be able to get £5+ off the RRP instantly, have a physical copy, and be able to sell it for many when im bored.
