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Place your bets: Will Sony honor past ps1/psp purchases when they roll out the new ps+?
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Rykan
Member
N1tr0sOx1d3
Given another chance
Ah but what do you do when the next gen consoles no longer have Blu-ray drives?
Paasei
Member
Then I won’t buy one, and blame the people that want convenience over every downside and nothing else
N1tr0sOx1d3
Given another chance
I completely understand and agree with you. Unfortunately physical only gets you so far before the medium becomes obsolete. The later versions of PS3 for example stopped supporting physical PS1 and PS2 games I believe.
At some point, as infuriating as it is, these companies stop supporting their previous hardware.
Digital is the same too. They can stop supporting their previous works at anytime, or publishers can just turn off their servers and deny access to their online games.
They claim we just “rent” the titles and own nothing.
I’m very selective what I purchase now. I’m a drop in the ocean for sure, but at least they aren’t making much money from me anymore.
Rykan
Member
Yes you will. Literally nobody is going to give up a hobby just because it moved to digital, much in the same way that you haven't stopped watching movies or stopped listening to music when those two forms of media became primarily digital.
MajinSweet4
Member
Absurd false equivalency that unfortunately people always trot out when this topic comes up. I literally just googled "Groundhog Day movie Physical Copy" and this is the first result: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005U8EM/?tag=neogaf0e-20
A movie from 1993, available in a variety of formats at many different price ranges. You're straight up deluding yourself if you think the situation with games and how they're sold is normal.
Frank Horrigan
Banned
No.
How could they and why would they?
How could they and why would they?
wvnative
Member
Why is this a question? Those games were relicensed for use on PS3, PSP, and Sony was only able to update the license for a small number of games for vita. This will be a new emulator, with fresh licensing deals for the games, which has certainly become more expensive now than it was in 07. Could they? Sure, but they'd be eating cost, and current Sony leadership isn't about eating ANY kind of cost.
Memorabilia
Member
After watching how anti-consumer Sony has been for years on this very topic (& others) you could see it going either way? Really?
(Spoiler Alert: The answer is HELL no)
yurinka
Member
Getting a year -what most people does, according to Jim Ryan- it's $10/month. And in cdkey websites these things typically can be acquired with 20%-30% off discount, so you could get it for $7-$8/month.Only the top tier PS plan at $18 US/mth gets access to Sony's old games. The basic and mid tier dont.
UPDATE: All-new PlayStation Plus launches in June with 700+ games and more value than ever
PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now come together; players can choose from three flexible options.blog.playstation.com
And at least until now all PS Now games have been games available to be purchased outside the subscription on the platform being streamed (PS3 or PS4). Sony said PS1 and PSP games will be downloadable on PS4 and PS5, which means that super likely you'll be able to buy them outside the subscription, even if we'll have to see if are crossbuy with the digital PS1 and PSP games from PSP/Vita/PS3.
Rykan
Member
You completely miss the point. The actual availability of physical media is largely irrelevant because the primary way of consuming media happens through streaming for both TV and Music. The vast majority of music is still available on CD's or other forms of physical media, but that's not how most people consume it and if it were to disappear, that wouldn't change anything for the vast majority of people. It's not quite as extreme for video but its clearly going in the same direction. DVD sales have been down 86% in little over 10 years and now makes up for less than 10% of all sales. Blu ray sales are even worse.
Put it this way, if you're an average person then:
- You haven't purchased a music CD in decades, you stream most if not all of your music:
- You stream the overwhelming amount of video content you watch with maybe a DVD/Bluray purchase here or there.
When you consume other forms of media almost (if not entirely) fully digitally, it's rather silly to have such an extreme position as "I will not buy a next gen system anymore if they are fully digitial!" imo.
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ManaByte
Member
Actually it's worse for video. Physical sales has plummeted so quickly, there's now only ONE duplication plant in the entirety of North America to produce Blu-Rays.
01011001
Banned
this is what one calls, Delusional lol
Current consoles bought and physical games bought are still going to work, why should anybody give up the whole hobby?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
lol noThe don't even honor PS4/PS5, much less something from the ancient past
tommib
Member
If they include the original tomb raider I’ll pay them 18 a month for the rest of my life.
Memorabilia
Member
This. I still have my 2010 slim w/very little miles on it. I’ll probably pick up a super slim as a backup at some point (I hate the form factor but my guess is it’ll be easier to find a good one).They should, but I don't think they will.
Glad I still have my PS3, a system that can still play all my digital PS1, PS2 and PS3 purchases from the past
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
The super slim is fantastic. Small, insanely quiet and cool running. Use mine every now and then.
OG fatboy is on the shelf after starting to sound like a hairdryer.
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
And the answer is yes. Huge W.
Jose92
[Membe
Did not expect them to do so, but they did.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Based.
SilentUser
Member
Feels so good to be wrong in this case lol Not only they are going to honor the previous purchases, they will also sell some classics individually (I thought both were out of question).
kyliethicc
Member
schaft0620
Member
They actually did it. wow.
Y0ssarian
Banned
Feels good man
Craig of War
Banned
Wow guess i was wrong again turns out Sony do care
01011001
Banned
GHound
Member
lol get a load of this clown. What a wise guy, thinks he's got it all figured out.
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Dick Jones
Gold Member
Where is that said?
kyliethicc
Member
All-new PlayStation Plus game lineup: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Demon’s Souls, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, NBA 2K22, and more join the service
Ape Escape, Super Stardust Portable,Syphon Filter, and Tekken 2, are among the classic games with a new user experience.
blog.playstation.com
Dick Jones
Gold Member
All-new PlayStation Plus game lineup: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Demon’s Souls, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, NBA 2K22, and more join the service
Ape Escape, Super Stardust Portable,Syphon Filter, and Tekken 2, are among the classic games with a new user experience.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Only digital purchases it seems.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Was this poll about digital only, disc only or both?Bo_Hazem was so sure they wouldn’t he thought I was trolling by making this thread. Why so little faith?
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