We want all the PSoneclassics, thanks.
We've waited long enough
There has been a small debate going on between websites, Joystiq and Ign in particular in the case of PSoneclassics on the the Vita. Earlier this week at the Sony E3 Press conference it was announced that they would be available to play on the Vita “This summer”. This wasn’t the best news, considering this feature has been promised since the device launched here in the West in February, and in the December when it was launched in Japan.
Joystiq’s JC Fletcher yesterday wrote an article stating that PSoneclassics would be rolled out gradually over the summer, but just the next day IGN’s Playstation editor Colin Moriarty stated that all PSoneclassics on the network would all be available to play as soon as the firmware is available over PSN. Who is to be believed? I asked Jeff Rubenstein on the Playstation blog for a bit of a clarification, but him being just a figurehead this is what we received.
Thanks? I guess?
So what’s happening with PSoneclassics?
Well it seems like we need a bit more info from the people in the computer labs actually making the emulator for the Vita. One would assume that they would all be available to play on the Vita just like any other emulator would enable. It’s kind of surprising that just a little bit of inconsistency with your message can make a bit confusion with consumers (and as it would seem, journalists).
Hopefully there’s an official word coming from Sony soon, one would hope that from this video one could assume that all the games would be available and not just a few.
June 11th, 2012 on 11:18 pm
Well, I’ve jumped in. I was waiting for PSone Classics, so I’m glad that the wait won’t be too much longer. (Summer ends official Sept. 21)
Best Buy got me with a promotion involving a $50 gift card with purchase of a Vita. I used it to buy a 16GB memory chip. No games for me yet, I’m gonna try out all these demos first.
The way the Vita sales have been reported and how poorly Sony promoted the Vita at E3, you’d think that retailers would start beating customers over the head with em to get them sold. I guess it becomes a stand-off if you will, fighting to be the last customer to hold out for the greatest deal / promotion.
June 12th, 2012 on 10:13 am
Yeah that’s a pretty good deal, I expect them to drop the price leading into the christmas season, but you got 50 bucks off anyways, so that’s not so bad. I am excited for these PSoneclassics to be put on PSN, I’ve been waiting long enough. Sadly though my PSN isn’t even working! No games for me for the time being is seems…
I did manage to get into the LittleBigPlanet Beta though, so that’s cool
June 18th, 2012 on 9:34 am
I think the Vita launched a solid year and a half too early. Looking at the global charts, the PSP is matching 90% of the Vita’s sales, and that’s because it’s the established system with games, and it’s reasonably affordable.
This is precisely the same situation the 3DS had with the DS which forced Nintendo into making a price-drop. When you remember that the 3DS is good and truly backwards compatible and that the UMD-to-digital program didn’t leave Japan…the few hardware sales the Vita has are largely undeserved.
PSOne Classics coming to the system is a big plus, but the system should have launched with them and a small library of PS2 Classics so that the hardware wouldn’t need third party software as badly.
June 18th, 2012 on 10:30 pm
I don’t know if a solid year and a half too early, maybe a few months, but they couldn’t survive coming out so late in comparison to the 3DS. I mean the 3DS has a year on them already, if they launched another 18 months down the line, I think it would have been curtains for them.
The UMD to digital program didn’t leave Japan also because publishers weren’t behind it, and it wasn’t popular with consumers (people didn’t want to pay again for the games they already had, there was a fee, sometimes a substantial one to get that code to download the game).
I do agree that the system should have been launched with PSoneclassics, and some PS2 classics as well, it looks almost impossible for the PS2 games to come to it at this point, but I guess we’ll see.
June 19th, 2012 on 11:23 am
I understand what you mean, but I don’t agree. The PSP and DS were both products which live and die by their complementary goods–video games–and the two system libraries are completely different. Put bluntly, the systems are competing for developers’ licenses, and the end result of licensing games is hardware sales to end consumers.
So the Vita and 3DS have only been indirectly competing with each other. Their direct competition is their predecessors; the DS for the 3DS and the PSP for the Vita.
Would Nintendo have gotten great market penetration had Sony held the Vita off a year longer? Well, yeah, but most of that would be with the crowd that buys Ocarina remakes or Kid Icarus. Sony’s target audience *might* have gone out for MGS3, but chances are they already own Snake Eater if they’re interested; PS2s are cheap, as are their games.