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Greg Sewart wrote: > > Jan Siren wrote: > > > > >> Have you been reading the news lately? Does this sound familiar? > > >> Sony accepted 99 out of 299 planned games? Hellooooo out there... > > >> PSX is easy to develop for, but Sony policy will not let all the > > >> crap through. Compared to the amount of shovelware that came out > > >> for the SNES, I think Sony is doing a pretty good job on filtering. > > > > > >Of course, you're assuming that Sony's definition of crap is the same as yours. > > >*MY* definition of crap would be: > > > > > >A game that looks so poor I wouldn't even consider purchasing it. > > > > > >-or- > > > > > >A game that I did purchase (due to great graphics, great reviews, etc) > > >only to find out that it played like crap. > > > > > >The Playstation does have plenty of crap, as Sony seems to allow ANYTHING > > >with pretty graphics; good gameplay is not even a consideration. > > > > > >And many of the titles that Sony of America is rejecting are NOT crappy > > >games, they just aren't 3-D enough, or "next generation" enough, "too > > >childish" or whatever. Fun games like Motor Toon, Pop-n-Twinbee, and > > >Parodius SHOULD have come to America, but Sony of America wouldn't allow > > >them. They'll lose market share (and 3rd party support) if this trend > > >continues.... > > > > Sony sucks! That's why I bought a Saturn instead! Imagine a company so barbaric that they screen > > OTHER companies' games for ethninticity and 2-Dimentionality! They ALWAYS import the flashy > > 3-D games, but never import the good-playing 2-D games like Gensou Suikoden and Goemon > > (Legend of the Mystical Ninja). Does anyone wonder why Capcom is about do drop Sony? > > Actually, Sega and Nintendo screen third parties too. They just have > different ideas of quality than Sony does. The only reason Capcom may > drop Sony(I personally don't beleive it) would be because Sony's QC is > too strict, and they may never bend at all. > BTW, Mystical Ninja on the SNES was a great game, but it didn't do > anything special in terms of sales here. Sony may have some screwed up > ideas of RPG's, but they do have to look at the bottom line. Even > Konami themselves have said that Goeman is a game best suited to the > Japanese culture, and should stay there. > > Greg And 3DO never censored or disallowed( <----is that a word?) any game. Sure, you ended up with some crap but at least you had a choice to buy it or not. Sean