Farbourne
Rear Admiral
Interesting debate. Just a couple of thoughts.
1). It is utterly perplexing to me that Sony dropped PS1 and PS2 support from the PS3. I am one of the (rare) owners of an early release PS3 that can play PS1 and PS2 games, and I would not have gotten it if it didn't have that capability (I actually only own two PS3 games...everything else I use it for is playing older games or BlueRay discs). I understand they did it to make it (slightly) cheaper, to better compete with XBox and the Wii? But that doesn't make marketing sense to me...since it's STILL more expensive than those two (and it seems like the PS3 games are also more expensive then their Microsoft and Nintendo counterparts, but maybe that's just my imagination) even after they dropped backwards support, I now see no reason whatsoever for most gamers to buy one, unless they plan on buying a new state of the art system AND a Blue Ray player at the same time, and realize it's slightly cheaper to get just one PS3 than a normal BlueRay player and, say, an X-box.
2). My biggest beef with EA recently, and Arena, is that it was only released for XBox. LOAF is right...Wing Commander has always been a multi-platform franchise. I was very annoyed when the first new wing commander game to come along in a while, and a game that was trying some relatively new and exciting looking things, would be released only for a single platform. I understand that porting is expensive and will only be done if it is profitable, but I would suspect part of the reason why Arena didn't do better was that it was only available on a single platform. Not PC, fine, I understand that releasing a console game for a PC is very expensive and unfortunately not very profitable these days, but couldn't they at least have released it on one of the other consoles as well?
If you recall when WC4 came out, the PC reviews of it were fantastic, while the console reviews were dismal. If it had only come out on console, it would have been one of the biggest gaming flops of all time.
3). Totally off topic, but I've formed the idea recently that a new Wing Commander game would be fantastic on the Wii. Just an opinion.
1). It is utterly perplexing to me that Sony dropped PS1 and PS2 support from the PS3. I am one of the (rare) owners of an early release PS3 that can play PS1 and PS2 games, and I would not have gotten it if it didn't have that capability (I actually only own two PS3 games...everything else I use it for is playing older games or BlueRay discs). I understand they did it to make it (slightly) cheaper, to better compete with XBox and the Wii? But that doesn't make marketing sense to me...since it's STILL more expensive than those two (and it seems like the PS3 games are also more expensive then their Microsoft and Nintendo counterparts, but maybe that's just my imagination) even after they dropped backwards support, I now see no reason whatsoever for most gamers to buy one, unless they plan on buying a new state of the art system AND a Blue Ray player at the same time, and realize it's slightly cheaper to get just one PS3 than a normal BlueRay player and, say, an X-box.
2). My biggest beef with EA recently, and Arena, is that it was only released for XBox. LOAF is right...Wing Commander has always been a multi-platform franchise. I was very annoyed when the first new wing commander game to come along in a while, and a game that was trying some relatively new and exciting looking things, would be released only for a single platform. I understand that porting is expensive and will only be done if it is profitable, but I would suspect part of the reason why Arena didn't do better was that it was only available on a single platform. Not PC, fine, I understand that releasing a console game for a PC is very expensive and unfortunately not very profitable these days, but couldn't they at least have released it on one of the other consoles as well?
If you recall when WC4 came out, the PC reviews of it were fantastic, while the console reviews were dismal. If it had only come out on console, it would have been one of the biggest gaming flops of all time.
3). Totally off topic, but I've formed the idea recently that a new Wing Commander game would be fantastic on the Wii. Just an opinion.