PS2 doesn't mooch. It's nazilike approach towards 2D games makes me sick. It won't have anymore. XBox will gladly take them. The only way PS2 will ever accept 2D games is if you put more then one game on a disc, make the price really low, and make that multigame disc avaialbe in the US only.
PS and PS2 have the majority of the 2D fighters and are the king of the 2D fighters. While Xbox's only decent one is Guilty Gear. Plus the chunky controllers make it difficult to actually play them ( or rather anything ) PS2 are the best for 2D fighter and baiscally everything
oh didnt read the post right.
The reason why maybe some PS2 gamers dislike 2D fighters cause they have had so many and dont want to fork out £40 or $60 sumin in the states because most of them are the same. But most Xbox players havent really played 2D fighters so there a new gaming experience.
But 2D fighters dont make a console better. There other genres which are good. I mean have you played GT4 yet
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Maybe if Sony bothered to.. Oh I don't know... PROMOTE them? Sony dumps all of the 2D games, it only hurts them, they lose millions in Ryoalties from companies like Capcom, Sammy/Sega, SNK, and Midway. American gaming companies think that realistic graphics make good games, so they shun a majority of 2D ones. XBox will gladly take a 2D fighter if Sony is the Hitler of 2D games. Hell, not only will they gladly take them they'll give them all online play and easier controls. Also, playing 2D fighters on a standard PS2 controller sucks, the way the D-pad is set is just not right.
The only reasons I'm not concidering selling my PS2 to a gameshop is for Phantasy Star Universe and Phantasy Star Trilogy. Trilogy does however use 2D graphics, but when they released them in Japan it was three games released seperatly on three seperate discs, SCEA will laoow it only if the US versions are on all one disc and sold for a lower price then usual. That was how KoF 2000/2001 and KoF 2002/2003, dual games on one disc with extras sold at like 20 dollars.
In the end I say... screw you Sony.
I was just screwing around. That commment was directed at anyone. It's just my way of saying how I think "rooting" for a company while wishing "death" on others is childish.Originally Posted by gibbi8
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THOSE BASTARDS
How DARE they offer us more for our money. Mother smurfingS. They should charge us $50 each for old games with dated graphics and technology, not bundle them together, to in the end sell more copies!
If they don't bundle them and/or make them cheap then they won't accept them. It hurts the company that makes it too. It uses alot of time and effort to make all of the sprites and animate them properly. This is one of the reasons why SNK went into bankruptcy about a few years ago.
I dont think anybody is wishing "death" on anything else. I dont really care if a souless company in Japan or america has a slightly lower annual income that it had the previous year. And I cant remember what the topic of this thead was...
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Really? I thought it was because they made crap games no one bought.
And let me tell you something, Sony wants to make money as much as anyone else, if they thought they could make money from selling crappy 2D games, they would. But having flops hurts them too, reputation wise.
Was Zelda a 2D game? Was Street Fighter II a 2D game? Were most of the Mega Man games 2D? They were 2D and they sold great. Sony of America just thinks good graphics seels games. 2D games can play very well, sometimes better then 3D games.
Joel - they sold great when thpse kind of games were the status quo. Release a new Zelda game with the same graphics used in the older ones, and it won't bring is much money. It's a basic marketing strategy - only accept games that will bring you money.
Sony doesn't have an "anti-2D" policy. They have an "anti-games-that-they-feel-won't-bring-in-much-marketing" policy, just like every other console.
Those games are 10 years old, genius. 2D games don't sell as much NOW, because people don't want to spend $150 on a system in 2005 to play games with 1995 grahpics.
Good graphics DO sell games, Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums does't accuratly depict the entire video game market, no matter how much you wish everyone was like you and me and that guy.
Not every other console. Xbox is allowing almost all of the KOF games and SVC chaos, and Guilty Gear X2 #Reload. 2D games will actually sell great if Sony actually gives them publicity, you know, put a few ad spaces in magazines that AREN'T taken up by Final Fantasy game ads.
I'm sure it's not Sony's resposability to advertise for every game that comes out on one of it's systems, whoever makes the games do, otherwise you wouldn't see ads for multiplatform games, ever.
Xbox picked up those games probably because it can be the only place for them. Xbox has a much better reputation for great graphics, too, so they don't need to worry about many people thinking that's all they can do.
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