I really can't understand the marketing strategies of a lot of the games on the PS store. We have all the tools at our disposal for giving the potential customers a real insight as to what the game is like but every now and then you run into a game that doesn't have any screenshots or videos.
I recently discovered that PS makes nearly 70% of their revenue from the PS Store and I guess it makes sense because no game is ever out of stock, you get to keep it in your library forever and even if you delete the game it still remembers your progress if and when you return to it.
For me the PS store is a great way for me to discover indie games that I otherwise might never have heard about since they don't have massive budgets for reaching a large audience. There is one extremely critical element of this process that for reasons I can't understand, they skip. The option to have some look at what the game is actually like in the form of a video or at the bare minimum some screenshots
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Owlboy is one of those games that I wouldn't have even considered purchasing if it weren't for their demo video... had the video not been there, I would not now own this gem
I know that I should just calm the eff down and maybe drink less monster energy drink, but when I encounter this situation it actually makes me mad. I'm thinking to myself.... " OK, so you and your team went through the massive rigmarole of making a game from concept to design to programming to testing to complotted product and you can't make a fucking demo video?"
I understand that I could run over to YouTube or whatever and check it out there but this is not the point. I'm already in the store, I'm already looking at your product but then at the most crucial moment they are not providing me with the most essential part of the process.
If I click on a game and then go into the subsection of that game only to discover that there is no media at all other than depending on other people to be streaming Twitch, I'm not buying the fucking game. It's as simple as that.
I wish I could sit down with these companies and slap whoever is in charge because I can't be the only person that feels this way.
This ability to have a little bit of a look into a product that I am considering purchasing goes back a very long way. Toys R Us mastered this back before we all had fiber optic internet connections by having a little sleeve of the boxes so that we could at at least look at some images and a description of the game before we bought it.