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PSNStores Podcast 80

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In this episode... Chris finds something unbearable and Eric gives us a recap on some General Hospital. New releases and some news.

Posted by Chris K on 15 Dec 2012 2012-12-15 01:14:33
  • KosmoCrisis

    Demos used to always come out before the retail release of a game back in the PS2 days. Starting at Sony as a tester, I was initiated by tester demo discs. Those were the good ol’days. If a game didn’t get a demo, it didn’t sell as well. But now we’re all digital. I think demos still serve their intended purpose better when available before the game comes out.

  • Eric G

    I hear that, remember buying magazines for the demo discs in the package? Tomba was a good demo. Maybe putting a demo out before the game comes out would make better games? I don’t know if/what the correlation is there, but I literally haven’t played a demo in years. I download them, sure, because they’re free, but they sit on my XMB until the game comes out, then I delete them, then repeat the process. I’ve stopped downloading them altogether now.

    SUB-QUESTION: How similar is a PSM game, for example, to a demo of a full game? Much of the time when a PSM game is free, it only contains a sample of the full game. I think we’re moving from samples to “free with in-app-purchases.” Crazy that I’ve never noticed this before.

  • PSPenguin

    I remember buying a magazine specifically for the Dragon Quest VIII demo and proceeding to play through it at least 20+ times.

  • http://twitter.com/mrcurrie21 mrcurrie21

    It’s always a good sign to see a demo out before the release date for the full game. I think it says that a developer is confident in their product.

    P.S. Prop’s to Eric singing the Duck Tails “Woohoo”