Sony Transfer Your PSP UMD purchases to the PSVita (with a small fee)

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I'm okay with the idea. Just not the "small fee" or the redownloading at a discount price. If I already paid for a game, why should I have to pay another "small" amount to get it again, on a console that has already put me around $350 out of pocket?

 

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Why must I pay? Thinking about it. I might just transfer the most precious games I own for the PSP, like Crisis Core, Birth by Sleep and Dissidia 012.

Lord of Apocalypse <3

 

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Since my 3000 is still fairly new I'll just use that for my psp games, don't see a reason to transfer them. Not to mention downloaded games take up a lot of memory stick space.

 

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For my PSV I guess I'll just transfer KH BBS and DISSIDIA FF

 

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The PSP was released in 2005/2006. The PSV is (I believe?) set for 2012 release--that's a six or seven year gap. The Nintendo DS was the first to remove GB/GBC compatibility, and the DSi took away GBA compatibility. The GBC released in 1998; the Nintendo DS released in 2004. That's six years as well. The GBA released in 2001; the DSi released in 2008. Seven year gap. Every company does this.

From a price/hardware standpoint, it doesn't make sense to expend unnecessary effort to support legacy games, at a certain point. The people who still want to play the old games can just keep their old handheld/console. Sony doesn't have to offer people a way to transfer the games and saves. They know that customers, whether out of nostalgia or a new interest in a game, still like to play older games, so there is an incentive for them to. The PSV =/= the PSP.

Would I like for my PS3 to play my PS2 games? It'd be nice, sure. But I can just keep my PS2. Nothing wrong with that. Sony is, at the end of the day, a business. They have to make a profit somehow.

Really I think this idea is a fine one, I don't plan to get a PSV and I don't own a PSP, but if it's a small amount then I wouldn't mind paying it.

 

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You're missing the part where Nintendo released the GBA which had full GBC backwards compatibility. When the DSi was released the DS was still "Current gen", so that's still not considered removing backwards compatibility IMO. Sony is the only company to make you pay for games you already own.

That point being (as Nintendo has proven) when those legacy games are two generations behind

Nobody who owns an old console and wants the next one is going to keep that one. Why would you keep something when you know that soon there won't be any games for it?

In a way they kind of do, because Nintendo have made it so standard

Fixed.

That "somehow" being making people pay for something they already own? Yeah, there's a limit to "somehow"

You realize that means if you want to pay Dissidia (I'm not sure if it's a PSN title so I'm going to assume it isn't) you have to buy the UMD and then pay an EXTRA fee (Which can be upwards of $15) to get it on your PSV, right? How is that fair?

The Wii has GC BC, what are you talking about? Yes I'm fine with the fact that the Wii U won't have GC BC. I've already played every GC title I wanted to. If the Wii U didn't have Wii BC, or I had to pay to play Wii games on the Wii U, I would be pissed off.

That is where you're wrong, sir! To make backwards compatibility for a system, that system has to either be so powerful that it can emulate the old system, or the new system needs to have hardware from the old system. The reason the 3DS is backwards compatible with the DS is because Nintendo put in special hardware including an extra ARM processor to make it possible. They didn't have to do that. The 3DS IS powerful enough to emulate the GBA and GBC, which is why there are downloadable GBA and GBC titles.

Again, my solution would eliminate this problem.

It's different because you lose your physical copy.

 

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When the DSi was out you'd still have a current gen system if you owned a DS or DSL. The DSi wasn't the next gen, so it's not a case of the next gen removing BC.

Just addressed that and yes it does.

Fine.

Sure. Sony isn't the reason it's standard to have GC for the last generation but not two generations later.

You swear. It's entitlement not to feel like I should need to buy something I already own? We are the customers. Nobody will make money unless they give what the customers want. Customers ARE entitled to a certain amount of things if a company wants to make money.

Fine. "Making" was the wrong word. It's still bullshit.

No, I was speaking directly to Misty, who does not own a PSP.

And by now it's unnecessary because it's been so long since the last GC game released it's unlikely that anyone owns GC games they want to play.

Except you don't, because it's been so long since the GBA and GBC you probably don't own anything for those that you still want to play.

This system is for people who want to play PSP games on a PSV, correct? Those people probably don't want to play it on a PSP then, correct? Then WHY would they want to keep the UMD?

I don't consider trading a retail copy for a digital copy any different than trading a retail copy for a different retail copy. Losing one and getting the other isn't the same as just getting both.

 

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No, it's a case of them removing BC because they wanted to test out some of the elements of what would be in the 3DS and including BC would have made the system too expensive. In addition BC wasn't really necessary at the time because the GBA was so old.

That's as completely different set of circumstances and you know it.

Except not all releases have digital copies

And that's fantastic. You missed out on them when they were released. That is not the crows BC appeals to. It's the crowd that still has games they want to play from the last gen, or people like Misty who are getting a console having missed the last gen and possibly wanted to try some games from the last gen, WHILE the games from last gen are still being sold.

The GBA and GBC games in the VC are for people who haven't played them yet, possibly because they were too young to read them in that generation. That's why I want them, anyway. You're skipping people who have games they haven't beaten. And are you seriously telling me you've NEVER wanted to play a game you've beaten again?

I'm just telling you how transfers work. It's a better system than paying for what you already own.

Except you know as well as I do that once the Vita rolls out Gamestop isn't going to give you CRAP for that UMD