GayGamer.net Podcast #29: The E3 Wrap-Up Show
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Fruit Brute
Posted to E3, Hot Stuff, Podcast, Video Games on 22 July 2008
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Name: Dave
I just have a comment concerning your opinions about the silliness of buying a system a year before a game comes out (when you claim that game is the reason you bought one).
While I agree that it isn't an excuse- and while I have absolutely no problems with originally-exclusive games going multi-platform- it isn't actually "silly" at all. In fact, in the case of the PS3 it is downright intelligent.
I bought a PS3 this past February. Not because I greatly desired any games that were currently out for the system, nor did I desired the HD quality (seeing as how I didn't yet have an HDTV anyways). I bought it in February because I knew I wanted the system eventually (specifically for some choice games coming out for it in the future and for when I bought an HDTV) but also knew that in the case of the PS3, waiting is actually a bad idea.
Why? Because of Sony, frankly. Stupid decision after incredibly stupid decision. I wanted a PS3 with backwards compatibility- mainly because its library would not be big enough to warrant purchase for the foreseeable future without the backup of the PS2's insanely large selection. I wanted the overall quality as well. Every single generation to come out since the 60gig has had more and more functionality stripped away. Every generation is more gimped than the last. If I were to wait until FF13 actually came out all that would be available would be (only slightly) less expensive models with significantly less to offer.
Your opinion on the subject of "I bought it in anticipation for such and such" would be a lot more true last generation- when there was only two major incarnations (at MOST) with any of the systems from Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft. That is not the case anymore with the quality-graph of Sony's product quickly plummeting in its constant stream of slightly-cheaper-but-much-worse versions that keep lowering the bar.
Also: Sony completely misinterpreted WHY the 80gig PS3s were selling better than the 40, which you failed to mention.
Backwards. Compatibility. That's it, period. Every SINGLE person I know who bothered to buy the more expensive 80gig did not say "well gee it was just so much more hard-drive space" . . . they all sited backwards compatibility as their reasoning.
And guess what Sony did! The new 80 gigs will retain its hard-drive space, but say goodbye to BC! Because it won't be there anymore. It would be amusing how out of touch Sony was if it weren't for the fact that I think it is having a genuinely bad effect on a system with so much potential.
I think the point was more that it's silly to buy a system a year in advance of a particular game... and then complain when that game spread to another system.
People who bought the PS3 early weren't being savvy, we just lucked out - nobody knew Sony would pull backcompat...
When given the choice of course you'd buy the backward compatible system...