Mmmfishtacos said:
Cobretti2 said:
OK let me explain what I am getting at.
For example, if I can get COD on ps3 and a free version for VITA, what is the point of me purchasing the one that is coming out when essentally it is the same game?Activition, EA, THQ all rely on milking their core franchises to earn a profit.
Therefore the publishers who are curently able to milk some extra money from me by offering a vita version will not be able to do that as I will see no point buying the spinoff. This will ultimately result in less software sales on VITA. There are people already on these forums complaining that $30 is too much for a game. So if they get a chance to play free games they will most liekly purchase far less then they would have before this annoucement.
From a gamers point of view yes it is fantastic as free game. From a Sony point of view yes it is fantastic as it will move hardware. But is it fantastic from an industry point of view when all we currently see is majority of companies posting QTR losses? Remember if these companies go bust who will make games for you?
Need to look at the bigger picture and not just yourself.
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Your not getting it, your situation isn't going to happen. Activision isn't going to port Blop 2 and make declassified which is a vita exclusive. Your also forgetting this isn't forced. So if Activison wants to make a port there's nothing that says they have to give it out for free. That fog cant really be that thick can it?
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I agree with Cobretti2, with this kind of promotion Sony is diminishing the value of the Vita version of a game, people will start to feel that the Vita version of a PS3 game SHOULD be free and start complaining even more for the price of the games, specially those that are ports of a PS3 game that also require work from the developer. That could really hurt them long term, if now is hard for Sony to convince the third party developers to produce a PSVita edition of some of their IPs it can become a nightmare to get even simple ports cause people will start to look at them as less valuable.
From the gamer's perspective is: "yeah! free games great!". From the developers and publishers perspective is: "booo less profit", and profit is their only interest so in the long run it can mean less Vita games even if those were only to avoid dry periods in the lineup.
