PS2 Premium Membership May Give Acess to PS1

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Originally Posted by Figment

Tbh, you're looking at it the wrong way.


And I mean... you don't seem to understand the advantage of package deals.


1. You get PS2 premium free with a (cheaper!) PS1 sub.
2. The amount of players with a PS2 sub is quite significant. People who play PS2 and subbed may try out PS1 - because they get to have it anyway. Even if only 1% of the PS2 subs now and then plays PS1, we're talking thousands of players. Increasing the population and thus the content for PS1 to a level that's very worthwhile.
3. People who tried PS2 and can't quite handle it with their hardware may try out PS1 once they realise it's actually still active and has a more healthy populace.
4. The more people play PS1 who started playing PS2 - the more chance we'll see more support for PS1 systems once players start realising the differences in certain mechanics favour PS1 systems over PS2 systems. >.>
5. Some part of the sub profits might end up being spend on PS1.

That's a very optimistic assumption of you, Figgy . Personally, I relay back to my own experiences when I pay for a game and the company offers me another game free, or access to the other game. I literally never had any interest in the old game, or only checked it out for a few minutes to go back to the new game. Of course, everyone is different and not everyone thinks like I do, so some people may be more open to try out new things, but given the current trend and mindset of people, I can't say I'm as optimistic about it as you are.

I feel like most people will generally give PS1 a try, yes. But I don't think it will anything past that. Once they see how much work they have to put into a character for it to amount of anything and the pacing of the game compared to the sequel (assuming they never played PS1) I don't think they'll go for it.