Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is coming to the PlayStation Network next week. People in the United States and Latin America will be able to download it starting March 5.
(Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, PS3)
I wonder if Sony will see a steep decline in PSN sales now that we know none of them will be playable on the PS4.
I, for one, probably would have grabbed a PSN copy of Rising last month. But now? I can't even muster the will to spend that small pittance they doled out into our PSN wallets right before the PS4 announcement.
Well, it'll still be a while before the PS4 comes out, and unless you plan to get it right away you can still be playing on your PS3 for a few years. So I wouldn't stop buying games for that reason, personally.
Nice try. With the steep decline thing, not the 4 PS3's dying on you part. That blows. My 40 gig fat died on me, but it had a good run. I got a PS3 Slim Move bundle like a year ago.
As for the steep decline in online game sales, who knows? I'm sure over 70 million people won't have the money to run out and buy a PS4 day one, so they'll probably stick with the PS3. Given Sony's track record, they'll support the PS3 even after the PS4 is launched, so I think current and future PS3 owners will be good.
How or if PS3 PSN games will transfer to PS4, we'll just have to wait and see how that works out.
Eventually you will be able to play them through emulation. Just like PSP games on the VITA they require additional mumbo jumbo to run in the device.
As long as you a bought your games digitally, so that they are attached to your account, you will be able to redownload them once the specific emulation for each game is available at the PS4 PSStore, without any additional payment.
It will require some time, but it will eventually happen.
To be fair, PS3 disc based games aren't going to work on PS4 either, so it's not like by buying retail instead of digital you're future proofing yourself.
I'd still rather buy physical though since on PSN they're still selling it at retail price despite not having any manufacturing or shipping costs. I don't like blatant cash grabs, especially after I heard all that talk about how digital distribution was supposed to lower prices.
@ Canary: Four? That's bad luck... I've had a 60GB since launch, and it finally died the day before yesterday, so I had to buy a new one. But it worked for almost six years.
Launch PS3 broke after 5 years. Repaired launch PS3 broke after 4 weeks. Repaired launch PS3 broke after 2 weeks. New slim PS3 broke after 2 days.
Currently, I'm on my 4th PS3, but that's only because I've got two of 'em.
Thing is, though, six years is not a very long time. At all.
It's taken more than a decade to get decent PS2 emulation; odds are we'll never see decent PS3 emulation. Without b/c, all of those PS3 classics like Valkyria Chronicles, Uncharted, Catherine, Demons Souls, Nier, Dragon's Dogma, etc., will be gone for good.
EDIT@Nyxus: Only for the new PS3 that broke after a few days, but I just returned it to the retailer (Amazon). I spent several hundred dollars trying to get my launch PS3 working again, and all the fixes were temporary.
Apparently, the defect in the launch SKUs makes it inevitable that they should break; and there is no permanent fix.
Really unlucky man. I got unliucky with the 360.. I've had my 80Gb 45nm chipset Ps3 for 6 years now with no problems. I've had 3 xboxes and this one had to be fixed twice.
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I, for one, probably would have grabbed a PSN copy of Rising last month. But now? I can't even muster the will to spend that small pittance they doled out into our PSN wallets right before the PS4 announcement.
That I'm forced to play PS2 games by running .isos off a PC doesn't help.
As for the steep decline in online game sales, who knows? I'm sure over 70 million people won't have the money to run out and buy a PS4 day one, so they'll probably stick with the PS3. Given Sony's track record, they'll support the PS3 even after the PS4 is launched, so I think current and future PS3 owners will be good.
How or if PS3 PSN games will transfer to PS4, we'll just have to wait and see how that works out.
As long as you a bought your games digitally, so that they are attached to your account, you will be able to redownload them once the specific emulation for each game is available at the PS4 PSStore, without any additional payment.
It will require some time, but it will eventually happen.
I'd still rather buy physical though since on PSN they're still selling it at retail price despite not having any manufacturing or shipping costs. I don't like blatant cash grabs, especially after I heard all that talk about how digital distribution was supposed to lower prices.
Launch PS3 broke after 5 years.
Repaired launch PS3 broke after 4 weeks.
Repaired launch PS3 broke after 2 weeks.
New slim PS3 broke after 2 days.
Currently, I'm on my 4th PS3, but that's only because I've got two of 'em.
Thing is, though, six years is not a very long time. At all.
It's taken more than a decade to get decent PS2 emulation; odds are we'll never see decent PS3 emulation. Without b/c, all of those PS3 classics like Valkyria Chronicles, Uncharted, Catherine, Demons Souls, Nier, Dragon's Dogma, etc., will be gone for good.
EDIT@Nyxus:
Only for the new PS3 that broke after a few days, but I just returned it to the retailer (Amazon). I spent several hundred dollars trying to get my launch PS3 working again, and all the fixes were temporary.
Apparently, the defect in the launch SKUs makes it inevitable that they should break; and there is no permanent fix.