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Kimberley Ellis
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| Sony to gamers: expect hybrid movie/game Blu-rays this year by Kimberley |  | | PALGN News: Sony seeking to broaden consumer appeal. | | [View Article] |
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This might actually make it worth spending $100 on a video game of a movie, judging by the quality of games of movies nowadays. On the other hand, it could send a bad message to the consumer. You get a high quailty movie with a half arse quality game.
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So much for DVD being useless for next-gen video games if they can fit a full movie onto a blu ray game...
I wonder how they'll deal with the region coding. Will they code the movie portion but not the game, or will the whole game just refuse to play on the wrong region? I've got a Japanese PS3 so I wonder if I'll have to import R1 versions of these game/movie hybrids...
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yeah could be interesting to see how my US PS3 likes the Aus hybrid games...
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This Idea is a long shot -
1. Movies will be packaged on the game discs based on the same movie - Now how many movie games are actually good ??? and what percentage of game released every year are actually based on movies.
2. the cost factor - the hybrid discs will obviously cost more than game discs - so expect a higher RRP than normal games - I would rather (if I loved the movie) buy the blu ray and game separately from different retailers on sale and save some money.
3. we get 2 disc versions of major blockbuster blu rays nowadays - so does this mean that we will be getting stripped down version of blu ray movies on the hybrid discs??
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I personally think its a great idea. It would certainly be the more attractive option for me anyway, especially for quality releases of games that got good reviews. Its like if The Dark Knight released a combo - I'd be so all over it.
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Not exactly a new idea, I mean Street Fighter Anniversary Collection came with the SF2 Anime Movie on the game disc (off the top of my head I can't think of anymore examples though). The only problem that comes up is the questionable quality of a lot of movie tie-ins (or even video game movies).
I can only see this working if tie-in games/movies are of good quality or, alternatively, if hybrid games are priced no differently to standard games.
| shiraj wrote: | | This Idea is a long shot |
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If they decide to region lock the game because of the movie i will tell them to fuck off. Mind you for games like dead space it would so work!!.
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Generally the release of a Movie Video game is around the same time as the movie itself in cinemas. I don't think this idea will work as most movie companies would want people to see it at the cinemas first, I am pretty sure cinemas would be losing customers if this idea went ahead.
Thoughts?
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Games that are movie tie-ins usually suck. Pay $120 for a movie with a crappy game tacked onto it? No thanks, however it will help devs that write crappy movie games sell more units to the poor saps silly enough to buy them.
This is another desperate attempt to frantaclly bucket water out of a sinking ship when the smart decision is to patch the hole.
How do you patch the hole of the PS3? Two words: PRICE DROP!!!! They need to get it down to $500 and they need to do it fast if they want a shot of beating the 360.
If the prices stay too expensive for too long it will be too late and the PS3 will be to Sony what Vista is to Microsoft, an expensive and embarrassing failure. I dont know about you but I dont want to see Sony become another Sega, not with M$ and their monopolist ambitions around!
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flooky36, I was just thinking the exact same thing mate. I'm guessing a pretty big percentage of movie licenced games are released around the same time as the cinema release itself - the publishers get free publicity for their games this way whenever the movie is advertised. Don't expect a free movie with your game unless it's a direct to DVD release movie, or the game happens to be a re-release when the DVD of the movie is released.
That's my thoughts buddy.
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| flooky36 wrote: | Generally the release of a Movie Video game is around the same time as the movie itself in cinemas. I don't think this idea will work as most movie companies would want people to see it at the cinemas first, I am pretty sure cinemas would be losing customers if this idea went ahead.
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True, however its not strictly limited to new release movies/games.
Examples: Iron Man 2 game packaged with Iron Man 1 HD movie on the disc.
or Ghostbusters videogame packaged with 25 year old film (Ghostbusters)
or even just vaguely related movies. Tony Hawk game packaged with 'Grind' or something like that.
It's really a confusing avenue once you start picking it apart.
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I know that Tales of Vesperia is getting an anime soon. Tales of the Abyss already has an anime and is a good watch. I think i remember hearing Valkyria Chronicles getting an anime.
Those are good games so the potential is there.
But i agree hollywood movie tie ins are horrible like Iron man -.-
The new ghostbusters game, could have all the old ghostbuster movies included remastered.
Star Wars the Clone Wars would be a good hybrid.
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I think this is a terrific idea actually, it can raise the appeal of lots of games by heaps. The fact that game-movies are usually terrible doesn't even phase me as I'm highly interested in it anyway. Having said that I'd rather it if game movies were CG as normally when they go for the real approach that tends to ruin it for me.
Awesome stuff Sony =]
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I wouldn't buy them. Firstly, games based on movies almost always suck arse. Secondly, the price would be even higher. And lastly, I like to have my games and movies separate - this would make things annoying to organise.
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Yes.. This whole concept sounds annoying.
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| Macka wrote: | | I wouldn't buy them. |
Exactly so many people won't buy them they won't be able to make enoughe revenue. These game/movies will be heaps expencive $150+ maybe (considering we already have just games that release at $120), and then the game buy it self will be considerable cheaper, like at $100, and the same movie will be $15 at Big W three weeks later. Even so people can just download the movie at a resonalbe quality a few weeks after dvd release. | flooky36 wrote: | | I don't think this idea will work as most movie companies would want people to see it at the cinemas first |
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| Gnomey wrote: |
Exactly so many people won't buy them they won't be able to make enoughe revenue. These game/movies will be heaps expencive $150+ maybe (considering we already have just games that release at $120), and then the game buy it self will be considerable cheaper, like at $100, and the same movie will be $15 at Big W three weeks later. Even so people can just download the movie at a resonalbe quality a few weeks after dvd release.. |
download the movie? you talking about something like itunes? or you talking about something like illegal activities?
also we are talking about high definition movies, people do buy blu-rays for the quality, and the movies on the disc with the game will be high definition movies, alot of games use under 10gb and the disc being 50gb so being plenty of room for a full HD movie to fit on there, maybe minus special features.
the most costly part of the blu-ray movies would be the blu-ray's they are put on so putting a movie and a game on the same disc would see the movies price more then likely decrease greatly.
so lets say a blu-ray movie is $40 (average) and a game $88 (big w average for a new release game) now the price of the movie could possibly drop to say $20 and the game stay the same so we could probably be picking these up for around $108.
it would be very silly to make it cost around the same price for them seperate because very little would show any interest, but if there is a significant difference in price im sure more would go for it.
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I think it's an interesting concept, especially considering that the sale of Blu-rays hasn't been that great, nor the sale of PS3s.
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As mentioned earlier, region coding would have to addressed. Will the game be region encoded?
In order for it to work, you have to provide an experience that's different to simply owning a game and/or the movie on their own.
Maybe a greater level of interactivity in the movie or special features. Or even include more special features.
Of course the price has to be reasonable. The cost would have to be less than owning the movie and game separately otherwise it'll end up the way of UMD.
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