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All PSOne Downloads Under $5?
Submitted by James Munn on November 8, 2006 – 6:00 pm4 Comments
Gamasutra has an interview with Dave Karraker, the senior director of corporate communications for Sony. Within the PS3 focused interview, they ask about the PSOne emulator for PSP and PS3.
GS: And how do the emulated downloads work for PSP? Have you announced pricing?
DK: Basically you just download them to the PS3, and bounce it to your PSP, and those will all be under $5. And then there will be downloadable content from hotspots.
Five bucks for PSOne games? That actually seems cheap compared to Nintendo’s Virtual Console pricing of $10 for N64 games. Either Sony’s actually going to do something right here or Dave Karraker doesn’t know what he’s talking about, my money’s on the latter.
Via Gamasutra
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Yikes! That article also mentions the PS3 is designed to be always-on! As much power as it eats, there is NO WAY I’ll be leaving it on all the time!
Here’s to hoping. What I really want to know is will multidisc games be that cheap and what about 3rd party games like FF7, FF8 (you can shut your pie-holes right now about this one), FF9. It’d be nice to play classics (like some of the ones mentioned above).
I (sadly) have to agree with you with that being BS. Then again they may have gotten this right.
Kat, I’d like to think that means the network is always on. And that power usage will only be during games. It’s like the 360 isn’t loud at the dashboard but when playing intensive games, and the 360 has cores that shut off. And there’s a sleep mode on the PS3 that will obviously save tons on power. So I don’t think it’ll be as bad as people are making it out to be.
Well, the system is meant to be always on but you don’t have to do it. The 360 would basically be the same thing.
Especially when they expect us to download HD content, that’s going to take hours.