http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/agreed! seriously, what's up with all their stealing from the other peoples???]]>Nov 22nd 2006 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Dammit, Yet another FUBAR by Sony... It's going to be a long time before I get to play PS3... I hope it doesn't loose momentum.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/]]>Nov 22nd 2006 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
A better method would probably be to produce more consoles.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
I heard somewhere that this was technically not possible. Don't quote me though.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Open your eyes fanbot.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Then again they could do that similarly via a PC.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
You're right. It's not cheap to pay ten bucks and having to have a memory stick. But... Where are the Wii games gonna be stored? On the non-existant hard drives? ]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/it takes a good 5 minutes to download like a video podcast via the rss feed you would be sitting there forever]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Playing the fanboy card is the cheap way out, if you dont have a coherent statement to make then just shut the f*ck up.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
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What in the world are you saying?]]>Nov 22nd 2006 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 25th 2006 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
This has already probably been answered by someone else, but just to clarify, yes, this will indeed work with the 20GB version of the PlayStation 3. The software of both systems are the same. The only difference is in the hardware, such as no wireless adapter, but obviously, you can just use good old Ethernet. ]]>Nov 22nd 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Give it some time guys before you tear in to it. Non-PS3 owners will get theirs, but the guys who spent 500-600 on the 17th get some exclusive content.

The Wii has 512MB internal memory and you guys are bitching about storage on a 1-2GB memory card? Nice. Nor does the Wii have any type of transfer for the downloadable retro games to the DS or non-that I have heard about. Yet Sony is shit?

Who's to say you won’t be able store these downloads on you PC at some point.

Let's see where it goes.]]>Nov 24th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
The Wii and the DS, have nothing to do with this conversation. If Nintendo did something this stupid, we’d be complaining about that too. Yes, non-PS3 owner are getting theirs – screwed.

I own a PSP, but the ONLY way I can get “legitimate” retro PS1 games is through the PS3 -- which I don’t own, and is IMPOSSIBLE to buy. Does that sound fair to you? The PSP hooks up the computer, what's the problem? Is SONY worried about their software being stolen? TOO LATE – so that one less thing to worry about. Also, $4.00 dollars is the MOST that SONY should asked for a 10 year old game, that I can pick up on eBay for a buck. Any more than $4 is called extortion.
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I really wanted it to. I had it on an OPM demo disc. Anyone remember it?]]>Nov 22nd 2006 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Don't be absurd.

Think about publishers and developers who want to get paid. And the bandwidth costs.

If you could demand this to be free, you should also demand free gas because you bought a car.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/]]>Nov 22nd 2006 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Terrible analogy. These publishers and developers DO get paid. How about new computers? They come with software. You can buy the newest office suite, but an older, not so great one comes with the PC. What about the radio in your car? Do those artists make money even though you're not paying for each song you hear? And bandwidth?! I guess youtube.com is gonna be the downfall for the internet, huh? Common chief, get a clue and come up with something intelligent to say.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 22nd 2006 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
The bad thing about this is that downloading PS1 games was a PSP feature but it somehow needs a $600 PS3 to work. Now why can't they have made it work through a PC or at least both? If they really care about pushing this feature rather than making people buy PS3's they would have enabled PC functionality first given the amount of people in the world who currently have a PS3.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 23rd 2006 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
F_cking SONY...]]>Nov 23rd 2006 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Extreme? Maybe. Terrible? Hardly.

The bundled software comes at a price to the manufacturer. It's not free. They make their money marking up the hardware. Sony doesn't make money off their hardware, so how could they offer free software?

The radio? It has two different payment schemes. Either the radio stations pay to play the artists music, or little known artists can pay the radio station. Someone still gets paid. You pay a listening "fee" by allowing ads to be broadcast to you. Satellite Radio? You pay.

Bandwidth? Advertisements. Now that Google owns it, AdSense ads on there.

You're asking for a totally free platform, yet you're suggesting "ad revenue" analogies. That's not free.

If you're suggesting PS1 games riddled with ads, then sure, it'll work and you'll get what you want. Otherwise...

Come on Chief, get a clue. ]]>Nov 23rd 2006 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
Still, that's not free, and I highly doubt there will be PS1 games following this business model.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 23rd 2006 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
The PS3 store will have arcade titles that are free.

The PS1 games will not be.

Does Microsoft offer something like Tekken 2 or Metal Gear Solid for free? I highly doubt it. Even with their subscription model.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/
WOULD Microsoft offer games of that caliber for free, even if it was 8 years old. Subscription or not. Would they even have a choice of offering it for free, since I think Namco and Konami would have a say in their own games.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/ PS3 > PSP). Chances are, when you purchase the game, you get the game data + a key to unlock the data based on an account created on your PS3 & the serial # of your PSP. You'll probably be allowed to store the data on your PS3 indefinitely, and copy the games over to your PSP as space allows. If you connected directly to Sony with the PSP's WiFi, you would be limited in the number of games you could download based on the size of your average Memory Stick and would be more likely to copy them onto the PC and share them with all of your evil pirate friends who spent $250-$300 on Sony hardware...

It will be interesting going forward, I bet within a couple weeks we will begin to hear horror stories from people who bought half a dozen games only to have their PS3 go up in smoke. They'll get the classic "Your waranty only covers hardware damages" line, leaving the gamer SOL and forced to buy the games over again if they want to play them. I seriously doubt that you will be able to re-download the content for free unless you spend ALOT of time bitching at Sony Tech Support.

Welcome to the world of Digitally Restricted Media...]]>Nov 24th 2006 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/And yet Sony tease us by offering the 3.01 firmware update with remote play.]]>Nov 23rd 2006 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 23rd 2006 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 23rd 2006 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/sony-announces-prices-for-downloadable-ps1-games/Nov 23rd 2006 12:15PM