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If my money is going to buy new PS2's when the old ones die (and by god, they do), I'm not gonna spend the same money on new games and make them profit. Whereas if I buy a PS3 to play PS2 games, I now am over a $300 hurdle to buying new games.
I know most people don't care about BC, but John Koller stated in his press release that "It's all people want to talk about!". News flash, PR guy: your system is 3rd out of 3, and you're telling us you're intentionally ignoring a vocal and dedicated fan base? Do you not LIKE profit?
But, to get back to my point (sorry), apparently it's impossible to get ahold of anyone at Sony other than low-level cst svc, who have no power and who can only pass on my phone calls and letters to be promptly ignored. Does anyone know how to email an executive office, or someone with actual clout at Sony, direct? Because in spite of Koller's comments, I'd like to believe that they just don't understand how adamant a chunk of their potential market is about BC. Because the alternative is that they don't care, and that's bad business.
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I'll miss it if I ever get a new console.
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The Spider-Man font always reminded me of the font The Smashing Pumpkins used for their 1979 single font because I'm such a SP fanboy.
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My response is:
The first motion controller was on the Commodore 64. The wii does seem like it stood on the shoulders of the Eyetoy, though, and yes... They showed this thing off way before the Wii... They just didn't think too much of it and didn't push it the way Nintendo did because the eyetoy always got bad sales outside of Europe.
The wii's huge (and unpredictable) success made them change their minds and develop this old concept further.
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Last time I checked, I was a GAMER not a SHAREHOLDER. Frankly, I don't give a damn how much money anyone loses; just keep coming out with the good games and thats all that matters. It's funny to see the fanboys (on both sides) come out to debate sales figures lol........
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It's really not that big a deal, I bought a PS3 to play PS3 games and thats what I do. And there arent enough good PS3 games? Bloody hell.
Uncharted
LittleBigPlanet
Ratchet & Clank (both games)
Killzone 2
MGS4
Resistance
Infamous
And I bought my PS3 when only Uncharted from that list was out. You should really consider your words. Another example would be IGN they have a list of reviewed games with 9 and above [uk.ps3.ign.com]
Yes there are a few duplicates but there are more than enough good games on the PS3. With alot more looking to be coming in the near future. If anything the 360 looks to have dried up a little. Doesnt bother me. I own both.
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If I ever buy a PS3, I want my freaking compatability. I don't give a rats ass, my poor ps2 is needing retirement. The only games that look at all interesting on the PS3 are MGS4 and Infamous. Oh, also Tales of Vesperia, which hopefully gets ported here. Oh, and some other JRPGs that nobody cares about, because Americans have no taste in games.
I can say that, because I'm American.
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Though I agree the guy above is being an idiot too as the PS3 has tons of good games.
360's not really dried up, it's got Forza, Alan wake, Magna carta 2, Crackdown 2, Halo ODST and some more coming that are exclusive and then it's getting stuff like Kingdom under fire 2 etc. that are PC and 360 only. It's not like PS3 was dried up at the start, it just had to wait till more devs had got to the point where the titles were being released.
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If you have PS2 games, the chances are you own a PS2.
Im sure if you surveyed every single PS3 owner they'd say that BC is needed and important, but the chances are less than half the PS3 population would use it regularly. "SO MANY" How many? :) All the kotaku readers? Well thats only probably 1 or 2% of all PS3 owners (if that) All the gaming blog readers? Then theres more than a few people who only bought the console for the Blu ray player, small margin I know.
It's not nearly as important as you make out. I'd even guess that people would rather have a certain game such as Uncharted 2 to BC.
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people tend to want 1 system, for convenience if anything, not to mention the number of incredible games only on the ps2 and how many gamers have their own collection of ps2 games that they dont want to go to waste.
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After all, Sony keeps talking about the long projected lifespan of the PS3...
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