Sony Needs Its Own Summer Of Arcade (RunDLC)

Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade kicked off this week with Limbo, and while that’s great for 360 users, we can’t help but feel a little disenchanted with PSN. Yes, Sony has made impressive strides to improve the service, including PlayStation Plus, but shopping at the store still feels a bit impersonal.

John Artest (RunDLC)

[lodossrage]

Doesn't Sony have the Spring Fever sale every year?

[playstation_clan]

plus psn has joe danger which is hands down one of the best arcade game this year

[Yi-Long]

... it's not as good as last years.

Limbo is pretty much the only one that seems interesting to me, but is also a bit too expensive for a 3-4 hour game.

The good XBLA stuff probably comes out after the summer of arcade, with IloMilo, Shank and Scott Pilgrim...

PSN has some great games on the PSN, but I'm waiting to get myself a new PS3 slim before I start purchasing some of those PSN games.

[Cenobia]

I'm pretty sure Scott Pilgrim is PSN exclusive (at least for a while).

Unless that has changed recently.

[Playerz8]

This year's PSN Spring Fever was pretty lazy, just a bunch of discounted games and add-ons for old titles. 2009's Spring Fever was great, especially with Flower.

I wish they did have a Summer Special thing though, cause people only mention Live Arcade when they talk about Summer downloadable games, even though they come out on PSN too.

[ISKREEM]

Spring Fever was actually pretty good for me.

I don't pick up every single game that's released on the PlayStation Store, so it was a good opportunity for me to catch up on some of the games I missed.

Pixeljunk Shooter, for one. I wasn't entirely convinced on the game from the videos I saw, but after picking it up for $5, I had some great fun. Which in return, has encouraged me to buy Pixeljunk Shooter 2 whenever it will be released.

[ThanatosDMC]

Not to mention discounts and permanent price drops.

[Spenok]

It sure does.

[Buff1044]

Maybe, but that's not the same.

[Buff1044]

Joe Danger is definitely great.

[Playerz8]

Haha, Joe Danger is awesome, but I can't play it with my friend, cause he says it looks stupid and for little kids, so then I play COD with him, which is boring.

[thereapersson]

Well, for your friend to have such a narrow, immature opinion on Joe Danger, it's no wonder he loves to play Call of Duty.

[MajestieBeast]

Psn needs dead nation now!

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Spring fever sale was nice got a free copy of flow and flower if i remember correctly.

[edhe]

Yes, Sony needs to copy another competitor again to get successful ideas.

sarcasm?

[Apolloeye]

Doesn't PS+ provide this all year round?

[teraMEL0S]

PS+ is different. If you end your subscription, you no longer own any of the games you were paying for. Also, it's not a promotional program leading you to the hottest new releases; it's a subscription service that basically rents out content like full games such as iNfamous and then other full versions of PSN games to people and adds a few exclusive features to those who subscribe. In other words, they're not similar at all.

[teraMEL0S]

But, it is cool if that's what you want. Hopefully, they make it more worth the money. it's cool to "rent" games for 50 dollars a year, but why is there no cross game chat or being able to play your own music during a game? That stuff should be a given if they expect people to pay for it.

[ThanatosDMC]

^fail at trolling

You dont rent Infamous. You buy it.

I guess, it's cool to rent the multiplayer portion of any and all games on the 360? Btw, you can buy those "rented" games.

[ISKREEM]

You're forgetting another part of PS+, the sales on games and content.

This may not apply to everyone, but for me, I look at PS+ as a long term plan. If I save $50, over the 15 months I have, on content that I would've originally bought, even if it weren't on sale (and not just because it was discounted). Then it essentially pays for itself, seeing as at some point I was going to buy all of that anyways. But in addition, I get access to all of the free content that they will be distributing over that time, for that peroid.

A lot of people have been judging PS+ WAY too early on, after about 6 months in, then maybe it will be more understandable.

[kasasensei]

I do not think sony needs to mimic the xbla on this point. There are good deals, games on sale and game release every month.

And yes, the ps+ is already here if you are hungry for more deals. Really no need for a "ps3 summer deals".

[ISKREEM]

While this isn't a completely horrible idea, would categorizing a game like Joe Danger under something similar to "Summer of Arcade" really make it a better game in its entirety?

I see it as more of an excuse to charge an extra $5 per game for. Do you think Limbo, as great as i'm sure it is, would have been priced at $15 if it weren't a part of the Summer of Arcade line up?

[Alos88]

I hope Plants vs. Zombies will come to PSN someday.

[Gitaroo]

they just need to release Pixel Junk shooter 2, and Dead Nation NOW!

[MajestieBeast]

I agree and also Journey.

[xYLeinen]

Sony doesn't need everything Microsoft have..

[teraMEL0S]

The thing most of you are not understanding is that Summer of Arcade is a block where acclaimed downloadable titles come out. It's not like having one great game (Joe Danger) come out for one week, followed by multiplat releases that aren't acclaimed to some degree. Last year, big titles made their way for 5 weeks in succession on XBLA. There was Shadow Complex, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Ninja Turtles Remake, 'Splosion Man, and Trials HD. Four of which are among the highest rated XBLA games available. And with the promotion, if you buy all of the games, you get money back. This summer, you get $15 back which is cool if you really want to buy all of the games. I think it would be cool if a promotion like this happened on the Wii and PS3. Shouldn't these guys try to promote the bigger downloadable titles?

[ISKREEM]

I don't recall TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled being acclaimed, although I do see your point with the other games.

But what makes a game, like Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, that much better for being a Summer of Arcade title? Especially around this time, when said title is now being offered on PSN for half price at the moment. You would think that's a little more something for people to get excited over, right?

As for getting $15 back, don't forget you're still being asked to invest $75 into this. You won't necessarily be getting it "back", because you won't have it in your wallet. Instead you're being given 1200 MS points, whether you intended on purchasing something else in the future, or not. But I guess if every single title appeals to you, then it's more power to you.

[jetlian]

really 15 bucks back? haven't seen that anywhere. but if so shank and scott pillgrim come out like a week later

[peeps]

I'd like to see a bigger push for arcade titles on the psn imo. Don't get me wrong, psn has had some amazing downloadable titles, but there's not a constant flow when you compare it to xbla.

So i wouldn't say they need their own summer of arcade but should push arcade titles more. I personally love it when 1 weekend i'm bored with nothing to play and can just go on psn/xbla and buy and be playing a cheap arcade game within minutes

[J-Smith]

there is only 1 thing i want on PSN & that is more original old-skool games

[Buff1044]

Oh wow...Scott Pilgrim would be another cool game to include if Sony had a summer of arcade.

[ChronoJoe]

lol well I hope the summer of arcade doesn't turn out like the 'we've got 1 exclusive good every month for the rest of the year' thing (something which was advertised on the dashboard). The first one came 4 months late, and the first two (Alan Wake and Crackdown) both flopped.

[ChronoJoe]

They should get Bizarre studios to release Geometry Wars 2. It's not exclusively on 360 or anything, Bizarre just haven't bothered to port it over, it's a great game too.