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Will Sony Crossbuy work?

Yes 52 39.39%
 
No 74 56.06%
 
WTFISCROSSBUY 6 4.55%
 
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Dgc1808 on 20 August 2012

I only expect SONY to support it.



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happydolphin on 20 August 2012
BasilZero said:
happydolphin said:
But is the Vita able to handle PS3 graphics? Even games like Uncharted 3 or The Last of Us?

I'm not sure I understand the tech.

Through compression and a few degrading attempts here and there yes. Look at Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 for an example and some other enhanced ports such as Mortal Kombat. Of course it doesnt mean every single title will be done like this, they are afterall gonna need to keep some exclusives, exclusive since the portable side of their business isnt the only thing they need to worry about.

Okay. So some games are a better fit to this. I shouldn't expect TLoU to shine on this programme then, unless I just wanted it on the go and could tolerate a downgraded version, right? I'm expecting games that make much use of the BD capacity to pose a problem as well amiright?



sales2099 on 20 August 2012

This to me makes no sense at all. Sony exclusives need more sales (aka more cash flow)......giving away free games to slightly boost hardware handheld sales is just further recipe for a bad quarterly statement.



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happydolphin on 20 August 2012

Ultimately it increases the unit value of both the home console and the handheld version to consumers who are interested in handheld gaming, and to those who are still on the fence.



sales2099 on 20 August 2012
BasilZero said:
sales2099 said:
This to me makes no sense at all. Sony exclusives need more sales (aka more cash flow)......giving away free games to slightly boost hardware handheld sales is just further recipe for a bad quarterly statement.


Unless they dont make physical copies of the Vita versions and release them through digital only. This in turn would help sales for the PS3 version and get people motivated to buy a Vita to play these games on the road (if its tied to their accounts and not released as a coupon/code).

Is this speculation or what they are actually doing? 

In the end, its giving away a free game and losing out on money. Its a band-aid solution to poor Vita sales, and this certainly isnt the road to go to bring them in league with what 3DS is pulling in. 



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happydolphin on 20 August 2012

@Sales, at least it gets their hands on a Vita when they may have been averse to the idea before that proposition.



cyberninja45 on 20 August 2012
BasilZero said:
sales2099 said:
This to me makes no sense at all. Sony exclusives need more sales (aka more cash flow)......giving away free games to slightly boost hardware handheld sales is just further recipe for a bad quarterly statement.


Unless they dont make physical copies of the Vita versions and release them through digital only. This in turn would help sales for the PS3 version and get people motivated to buy a Vita to play these games on the road (if its tied to their accounts and not released as a coupon/code).


How exactly would they tie a ps3 physical copy and a vita digital copy to one account?



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Chark on 20 August 2012
sales2099 said:
BasilZero said:
sales2099 said:
This to me makes no sense at all. Sony exclusives need more sales (aka more cash flow)......giving away free games to slightly boost hardware handheld sales is just further recipe for a bad quarterly statement.


Unless they dont make physical copies of the Vita versions and release them through digital only. This in turn would help sales for the PS3 version and get people motivated to buy a Vita to play these games on the road (if its tied to their accounts and not released as a coupon/code).

Is this speculation or what they are actually doing? 

In the end, its giving away a free game and losing out on money. Its a band-aid solution to poor Vita sales, and this certainly isnt the road to go to bring them in league with what 3DS is pulling in. 

It's not losing out on money though because practically no one at all buys the same game twice. It would probably cost them more to discount the game by a $1 or something, at least that would be almost 2%. I wish we had the results from that survey Sony put out about this, then I could be sure, but you get my point. The loss of sales is so low that even a small amount of people buying cross buy games that otherwise wouldn't would probably make them more money than they could possibly lose out on.



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Mr Khan on 20 August 2012

If it were the kind of game that would really benefit from being on both platforms (that is to say, someone would want to play a handheld version of it)

A fighting game might profit by that setup



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happydolphin on 20 August 2012
Chark said:
sales2099 said:

Is this speculation or what they are actually doing? 

In the end, its giving away a free game and losing out on money. Its a band-aid solution to poor Vita sales, and this certainly isnt the road to go to bring them in league with what 3DS is pulling in. 

It's not losing out on money though because practically no one at all buys the same game twice. It would probably cost them more to discount the game by a $1 or something, at least that would be almost 2%. I wish we had the results from that survey Sony put out about this, then I could be sure, but you get my point. The loss of sales is so low that even a small amount of people buying cross buy games that otherwise wouldn't would probably make them more money than they could possibly lose out on.

In the end though it makes you wonder why they would want to attract a handheld clientbase to a home console clientbase and vice versa since the company supporting crossbuy would be making games available on both platforms.

I guess though this invalidates one of the points you made earlier, it does support the idea that one same dev gets ultimately more exposure since, instead of making games available on one single plat it makes it avialable on 2 and thus expands the consumerbase for all their games, without segmenting their offerings.

Interesting proposition I'm begining to see.