You can't compare Resident Evil 7 physical copy sales to Resident Evil 5 and 6 physical copy sales because people are buying far more digital games nowadays. It is a different time. Lot of gamers only purchase digital games. As for Resident Evil 7, it is getting awesome reviews and higher ratings than RE 5 and RE 6. It is also returning to its horror roots rather than be an action shooter. It would have sold lot more but lot of people buy a ton of games around black friday and xmas so they have a backlog of games that they haven't tried out yet so people aren't really rushing to buy more games in January. I have a huge backlog of games but RE 7 is on the top of my to get list.
This would greatly benefit Microsoft lot more than Sony but I think it would benefit both in the long run. I don't think it will hurt Sony sales much if they were to do this.
All of these games are much cheaper on PS2. The high price isn't the only the problem though. The PS2 has over 5,000 games. The problem is that it is very small selection of games that are available AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, it doesn't really help most people who have a collection of PS2 games that they would like to play on the PS4. We understand though what Sony wants. They wanna squeeze out every penny that they can out of gamers with gamers re-buying games that they already had in the past with these remasters and digital classic PS2 games. I was happy to hear that Sony was "working" on backward compatibility a couple weeks ago but then they later released these handful of $15 digital PS2 games. What a joke! Sony asked their fans what they wanted.... No way did the fans ask for this.
Sony said that they are working on backward compatibilty with ps2 games on the ps4. How is that working out? Now Sony is taking suggestions for $10-15 digital ps2 games. What the beep?!
I suggest you to look at the psnow list. There are a ton of highly rated metacritic games. Old? Ok... Garbage games? Absolutely not. The metacritic scores say otherwise.
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