Free PSN Games - Your Choice of 2 from a List of 5

Are you satisfied with the selection of free games available in your region?

  • Satisfied. 👍

    Votes: 198 70.0%

  • Dissatisfied 👎

    Votes: 79 27.9%

  • I own all 5 already, so yes I am very dissatisfied. 👎

    Votes: 6 2.1%
  • Total voters
    283
@skope

Read the fine print. Sony has the right to remove functionality from the console as they feel necessary. You bought hardware that can access services which are not guaranteed. They could just decide to stop providing an online service tomorrow and there would be nothing to say that they can't.

The only way you're "paying" for PSN is when you buy something PS3 related and some fraction of that goes back to Sony, and some fraction of that goes to keep the servers turned on and the staff paid.

Regarding those costs for PS3 components...tell me where a consumer can go buy a Cell Processor and the RSX. Those costs won't be totally accurate, in fact they probably would change on a weekly basis, but to think that's not a wholesale price is silly.
 
I would've liked a car racing title but I do like what's on offer. I'm torn between LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout and Dead Nation. :)
 
I'm not fussed about any of the games...

.. but the hackers could come round and clean up the dog **** from my back garden... that would be nice. Community service by the hackers for everyone with a PS3!
 
I'm quite frankly happy with the gesture Sony have put forth for the downtime of the PSN. Sony didn't have to offer anything and yes some may have scoffed at this. For those who pay for premium PSN or the SOE customers they it would be expected for some sort of compensation for the outage.

Sony would find it impossible to please every customer, no matter what. I personally don't play many games online so the PSN's absence hasn't been such a hard hit. So the offer of free games to me is a nice gift and I'm very grateful, don't get me wrong Sony should have safeguarded our details a little bit better and hopefully this will now happen.

As for on topic I will be looking to score Infamous and Wipeout, I haven't played Infamous but I have played Wipeout on my old man's PS3 and I have yet to get it so it's a welcome addition to my HDD.
 
I'm satisfied, free stuff is always nice, I've heard Infamous is a good game and I almost bought it once, luckily I didn't:P
 
PSN Brasil?

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I can get other 2 games by the end of the year!
 
Moglet
InFamous and Dead Nation for me, but does anyone have any idea of the sizes of these games? I might have to uninstall GT5 to fit them on my HD :(
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Wipeout HD with Fury is 1873MB. Can someone confirm the size of LBP?
 
Sharky.
Wipeout HD with Fury is 1873MB. Can someone confirm the size of LBP?
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I forget which version it is, but either the PSP or PS3 version is around 1337MB.

Heh. 1337. It's L33T!
 
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I'm getting Wipeout, what else should I get? And what about the people who don't have enough space to download the games? Also, if you change PS3's, how do these games carry over, since there is no disc?
 
You can go to your previous downloads in the store and re-download things you have purchased on up to 5 activated systems. If you don't have enough space then make some :lol:? I would just delete a couple of old installed games from the hard drive at least temporarily, and not GT5 as it takes forever to fully install.
 
i already played the hell out of inFamous and LBP so i have decided to go with Dead Nation and Wipeout + Fury as i dont see myself playing Super Stardust often.

i am satisfied with the offer they have given us. sure i have played 2 out of the 5 games offered and 2 of the most full games, i am very much looking forward to my 30 days of psn+ as i am very intrigued about this service and the games offered. also i love trophies so more games with trophies is fine by me :P
 
I already have LBP and have beaten it completely.

For those of you who don't have it, you will not be disappointed. It's arguably one of the best games of this generation and has one of the coolest and most creative online communities around.
 
roylan101
is it per psn account or per ps3? so if i have 2 psn accounts can i download 4 games?
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Only two accounts that doesnt seem like a true GT5 player :dopey::dopey::dopey: but to answer your question as someone that had over 5 accounts on GT5 sake, I really dont think so... :)

I would like to get Infamous and Whipeout

But because of the wife I will probably get Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty and Wipeout she allready has little big planet

As for Deadnation I think it is probably one of those games that you play and like alot for one or two days than you get bored fast... lvl1 killing zombies - lvl 2????
 
I think I'm going to get Dead Nation then probably Infamous, but really only Dead Nation interests me (Since I already have Little Big Planet I and II)
 
I'm really satisfied. I think most of these games were reviewed at 9/10 or even higher (speaking of PS3 games). I expected sony to give us just some minis.
I think I'll get LBP and Dead Nation (already own InFamous).
 
Justin
If it cost Sony $0 to make the PS3 maybe... but that's not the case.

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Keep in mind that they cost $300 here in the States. The fat one was even worse as they lost about $100 on each console.
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Not trying to split hairs, but the fat one, when it came out was $599.99
So, no they didn't lose $100 on each console, but rather made a profit of $263.72 on each console.
 
skidbubble
Not trying to split hairs, but the fat one, when it came out was $599.99
So, no they didn't lose $100 on each console, but rather made a profit of $263.72 on each console.
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Lol what? That break down is from 2009, the PS3 fat was originally introduced late 2006. At the time of release Sony was losing upwards of $200-300 per console even at the $599 original list price for the 60GB model.

iSuppli: PS3 Sold At $300 Loss On Hardware Components

by Brandon Boyer
www.gamasutra.com
November 16, 2006

Researchers from electronics supply chain iSuppli have performed their latest 'teardown analysis' on Sony's new PlayStation 3, and have calculated the manufacturing cost of the 20GB model at at $805.85 - over $300 more than its retail price.

The researchers, who a year ago also measured Microsoft's Xbox 360 hardware at $127 over retail cost, perform the analysis by tallying an estimated cost of each of a console's component parts, not including costs for controllers, cables and packaging.

As their extensive charts reveal, Sony is taking an estimated loss of $306.85 for its 20GB lower-end model, and another $241.35 loss for each 60GB model, compared against their respective $499 and $599 price points.

Though it's not uncommon for initial hardware sales to be priced at a loss for the manufacturer, iSuppli remarks that Sony's cut is "remarkable, even for the video-game console business."

Pegging the high costs of the console on the processing power it provides, iSuppli also remarks that the console is impressive in its design, with senior analyst Andrew Rassweiler saying, “If someone had shown me the PlayStation 3 motherboard from afar without telling me what it was, I would have assumed it was for a network switch or an enterprise server.”

Also impressive to iSuppli is the level of engineering that's gone into the console. "To give an example of how cutting-edge the design is," says Rassweiler, "in the entire history of the iSuppli Teardown Analysis team, we have seen only three semiconductors with 1,200 or more pins. The PlayStation 3 has three such semiconductors all by itself.”

He adds, “There is nothing cheap about the PlayStation 3 design. This is not an adapted PC design. Even beyond the major chips in the PlayStation 3, the other components seem to also be expensive and somewhat exotic."
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skidbubble
Not trying to split hairs, but the fat one, when it came out was $599.99
So, no they didn't lose $100 on each console, but rather made a profit of $263.72 on each console.
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Not really.

If it didn't cost less to make the Slim, they wouldn't have wasted their time and money developing it.

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I've got LBP and Wipeout already so they are off the list of possibles. I'd strongly recommend Wipeout if you don't have it by the way.

I'm getting Racket & Clank for sure, so it's between InFamous and Dead Nation for my other choice and I have no idea which I should get.

Anyone got both already and can offer an opinion on which is best?
 

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