The Sony Move Thread

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by gekko

Why exactly are they patching old games to work with this thing? Seems like there's no money to be made there.

Yeah, but really there's no money to be lost there, either.
Why not patch it. That's why patches exist; to incorporate new technology onto old games, or to generally just improve [which is subjective, yes] the game.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Yeah, but really there's no money to be lost there, either.
Why not patch it. That's why patches exist; to incorporate new technology onto old games, or to generally just improve [which is subjective, yes] the game.

Well, I guess in some ways.

At the same time, they do have to actually pay people to recode these games, and make sure the tech is working properly. Its not like they are patching a bug in a pre-existing game. They are adding (And in some cases radically changing) some form of input. There's calibration and testing and employees.

So if they do all this, and I would assume the patches are free, their best hope is that people go back and buy these older games to try out the Move control.

[gekko]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Yeah, but really there's no money to be lost there, either.
Why not patch it. That's why patches exist; to incorporate new technology onto old games, or to generally just improve [which is subjective, yes] the game.

There's plenty of money to be lost. If it was free, less games would be left broken.

Programmers will need to be pulled off of their current project (which slows down that project) to go back and incorporate the technology. Move isn't free, so let's hope they can take the performance hit, or they will need to go perform some optimizations as well. They you need a testing team to ensure the features are working properly. You will also need to grab at least one artist and designer to help out as well. When it's all done, you get to send it through certification again.