Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded--PSP
Capcom Classics Collection Remixed--PSP
Darkstalkers--PSP
Dino Crisis--PSP, PS3
Mega Man Maverick Hunter X--PSP
Mega Man Powered Up--PSP
Power Stone Collection--PSP
Resident Evil 2--PSP, PS3
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis--PSP, PS3
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max--PSP

I think i read somewhere that Sony will have a service for the PSP Go! that allowed you to get free games if you have the UMD.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

" I think i read somewhere that Sony will have a service for the PSP Go! that allowed you to get free games if you have the UMD.Guess we'll have to wait and see. "

I was thinking that there could be an update for all games when you put them in, and that the UMD will then 'credit' you 5 downloads for that game and then may not be used to do so again, it seems plausible to me :P

Also, people will always find a way to abuse any system, especially anything on PSP xP

Sony will just have to grin and bear it, suppose they've been doing it for a while with PSP homebrewing.

and to not go totally off the topic of this thread, Resi games on PSN? i want now. xD

" I was thinking that there could be an update for all games when you put them in, and that the UMD will then 'credit' you 5 downloads for that game and then may not be used to do so again, it seems plausible to me :P Also, people will always find a way to abuse any system, especially anything on PSP xPSony will just have to grin and bear it, suppose they've been doing it for a while with PSP homebrewing.and to not go totally off the topic of this thread, Resi games on PSN? i want now. xD "

What are the prices of these games going to be?
I picked up my copy of Mega Man Powered Up for $10 at a Best Buy.

" What are the prices of these games going to be?I picked up my copy of Mega Man Powered Up for $10 at a Best Buy. "

Not up on euro-PSN, as usual. I'd maybe get SFA3 or the Power Stone Collection.

Dino Crisis :P

Did Sony find a way of getting free CDs to people who had cassette versions of their albums when the CD player came out?

No.

Then why would you expect them to do away with the primary means of generating revenue for this latest platform?

They are putting out a new system for the specific reason that they need to generate more revenue. There's no way they'd establish a program that would negate that.

" Did Sony find a way of getting free CDs to people who had cassette versions of their albums when the CD player came out?No.Then why would you expect them to do away with the primary means of generating revenue for this latest platform?They are putting out a new system for the specific reason that they need to generate more revenue. There's no way they'd establish a program that would negate that. "

" @JeffGoldblum: You're missing the salient point: the salient point is this is a stream of revenue for Sony, they have no reason to give it up. "

" @JeffGoldblum:
No one is?

Okay then, whatever you say.

I think the last 30 years of the history of video games proves you're dead wrong about that.

Second of all, no company is going to produce a product from which they don't expect to generate a sufficient revenue stream. "

" @JeffGoldblum: Yeah, Christ, way to build Paper tigers.

Have you ever heard the phrase "Cost/Benefit Analysis"?

Every company has people working for them whose job it is to make these calculations with their product.

Publishers have found that selling a game between 30 and 70 dollars generally derives a benefit commensurate with the cost of producing games. If they sold games for 4 000 dollars, they might make more for each individual game sold, but they'd never recover the costs of producing the game because a far smaller number of people would buy it.Now let's examine a cost/benefit analysis of the notion of giving free downloadable copies of games for the PSP GO! to people who already own the game for the PSP.Costs:Bandwidth for downloading the gameInfrastructure for verifying proof of purchase for gamesLost revenue of re-purchasers*Benefits:Unknowable increase in sales of PSP Go!(*: this is known as an opportunity cost)Accountants will be able to calculate estimates for the specific costs and benefits in dollars, but I guarantee you that Sony would rather not expend the first 3 costs, when they know that the only possible benefit will probably be negated by the fact that current PSP owners will probably end up buying a PSP Go! anyways. "

" @JeffGoldblum: Again with the value judgements. Every company is trying to make more money. Every company is trying to find a way to get you to be happy about spending your money on them.I simply am trying to tell you that Sony is banking on the fact that the PSP Go! will sell enough in its own right that incentivizing current PSP owners by giving them free downloads of UMD games is, from their perspective, a waste of money. "

" You still haven't explained how it's in Sony's interests to incur the costs of this. Steam is not a valid example because their method of operating is different. "

I wouldn't mind picking up RE2 and RE3, but I also don't feel like paying $10 for all these PS1 games...I'd rather they all cost $6, but that's just me...and no, I don't need to hear about how $10 is such a good price for those games and that I shouldn't be complaining...in my eyes $6 is the fair price.

You act as if a large percentage of owners are going to upgrade to the PSP Go at launch.  Don't see it happening, certainly not for me.  Not being able to use the games I already own is a small part, but simply paying $250 for a system that has no new functions aside from a larger internal memory the last thing I want to do right now.  I suppose I would like to put my hands on it to see if the form factor was a significant improvement, but other than that, forget it.

So yes, if Sony wants the people who have been around for a while to upgrade, they have to give us a good reason, meaning make the PSP Go better in every way than the original PSPs, meaning they have to play my old games somehow, or give us something else we just can't get anywhere else or just can't live without.  This is the same reason I haven't bought a DSi.  DS Lite had a backlight, and was a huge upgrade over the original.  It was worth the money.  But the DSI has a camera that I don't need, and a download service with mostly garbage, and I can't play GBA games on it.  No sale there until something improves too.