Comments on: God of War: Omega Edition

By: wolfkin

wolfkin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:13:51 +0000

oh no doubt the costs of making a game would drop. I just have huge doubts that said production saving would ever be passed on to the consumer. One of the big selling points of the Vita was that digital versions would be cheaper and if I recall it’s about $5 in savings. Hardly worth the trouble of a global shift to digital games and all the problems that come with it. Look at Digital games released now. When’s the last time a game was released digitally at a price that’s cheaper than the disc price. I don’t think it’s ever happened. Games get released digitally months after Disc release and at best sell for $30 when if you shop around you can find them for $20 kinda easily. Sure digital platforms have their annual spring sales and xmas sales but outside of those sales are kinda rare compared to B&M. While Steam is wonderful digital games on consoles isn’t anything close to that ideal experience. If all games are digital I’m very sure that things like “always on DRM” will gain traction.

By: Cheeto

Cheeto — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:25:39 +0000

@wolfkin would be an interesting read. Theoretically buying games digitally should be cheaper, cutting the distributor, regardless of how bad that would be for small businesses, straight from the publisher. I am not sure big distributing evil cooperatives will let is slip though.

By: wolfkin

wolfkin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:10:17 +0000

that’s the myth of a the “digital console”. If they make an all digital console. You can bet your bottom dollar they’ll start going hard and heavy with taxes, Games will most definitely not get any cheaper. And more importantly it will cut off a very large segment of gamers who can not or do not play online. I actually wrote up a blog post on the topic a few days ago interestingly enough. Been trying to think about what to do with it.

By: Cheeto

Cheeto — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:36:10 +0000

We honestly should push for an all digital generation. It should be cheap, fast and most importantly Tax FREE! @wolfkin I live in Jerusalem mate, the price of games is barley an issue when it comes to availability. @Pai do mercado I wish you are right about Max Payne buddy, I have been waiting on this for quite sometime now.

By: wolfkin

wolfkin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:17:27 +0000

@Cheeto I had no idea you were in Middle East. I learned something. I was however aware that games were rather expensive there. I've heard stories.