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Should we bring back demos in the new gen?

Yes! I hate waiting for reviews! 34 72.34%
 
No! Surprise me so I can return it! 10 21.28%
 
Demo this D 3 6.38%
 
I like rentals so ha...I always win 0 0%
 
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Nuvendil on 13 April 2015
OdinHades said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Interesting, seeing that demos and trailers are present in stores to sell consoles to the consumer first hand. They aren't resting in peace...they are only being used to sell consoles. The people who give us our reviews and previews online get exclusive   access to them and then tell us how good or bad the games are rather  than us being able to form an opinion. Think of it as democracy. Companies  allow representatives who are given hits, ratings or views to and they in turn give a subjective  response in only the most human way possible. That's just the thing these days. We should have access to what these people have played even if it's late. Nintendo and Sony have done a great job with demos at best buy. It's one of the  things that convinced  me for the first time in years that the wii u was for me this gen.


Yeah, but it's not like we got to play every journalists demo there was in the 90s. Also, there is more than just traditional gamesites. With Youtube, Twitch and whatnot, you have countless private people showing the games so I'm pretty certein you can form yourself a pretty good opinion on a game. 

I just think that demos are not worth the effort these days. What makes more sense is what Sony did with the full games you could try for an hour. That's more than enough to get an idea of a game and it doesn't need extra work. It's also completely hones because you later get exactly what you saw. That principle could get also more interesting with PS Now, where you don't even need to download a game before playing it. You just play instantly. Streaming might not be perfect in every way, but it's the way to go for trying out games. I think that's where the future of demos is. It already worked flawlessly for PC on Gaikai some years ago. It may still take some time for mass availability, but it will be there sometime. The need for traditional demos is gone for good, they won't come back. Just like passwords won't come back or games on modules. 

Now that type of demo I think is smarter.  You can also have cliffhanger endings to make people want to keep playing.  Iirc, the demo for RE:R on 3DS is just the first part of the first level and ends on a cliffhanger.  I think that's a smart way of doing it.