Posted by Paleface on October 27, 2016 at 17:36:34 EST in reply to Is Hamster's approach really better? Because I have little interest in these older arcade titles. These digital download services would be well served with something like the Criterion Collection, where only the finest titles get rereleased. That, or PS2 style ROM collections. (n/t) from Rockman Pocket.
That would be my preference as well; or at least, release the big ones first, then fill in the rest later. But if you're a company looking at this in financial terms, maybe it's different: if you're confident you have a sufficient audience even for your less popular titles, you might want to start with them, because you figure once someone has KOF 98, they'll figure they don't need 94; but if 94 is all that's available yet, they might just plunk down for it while waiting for the bigger title. That approach seems not to have worked for M2's Neo Geo Station series on PS3--it petered out in the 1996 titles--but those games were also I think $15--twice as expensive--and have the look of having been much more expensive to produce. So maybe the start slow strategy didn't work at that price point. But Hamster has been selling even older, much more obscure games in their Arcade Classics line for years at $8, and doing pretty decently with them, if the number of ratings for them on the PSN Store is anything to go by. The long game *has* been working for Hamster so far, apparently.
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