The first game to demonstrate this new pricing is Gomibako, known as Trash Panic in the West. There is already a standard version of the game you can buy and play as much as you like, but this new version costs 100 Yen (roughly $1) which gets you three games.This pay-to-play version of Trash Panic has Normal and Steel modes. If you clear Normal mode you get five Home rewards.
When Turrican appeared in the shops and I played it for the first time on my Commodore 64, which was the world for me! This game was so good that I would play for days and weeks on end and still wanted to play more. Turrican tickled absolutely everything out from the small machine. The perfect technology surpassed only by the great playability. Review Trash Panic. Coming from Japan, Trash Panic is as suitably bonkers as you'd expect. Trying to explain the concept of the game in a few sentences will be difficult, but we'll try our best.
Clearing the Steel Mode unlocks the same mode in the full version of the game.The price difference between the two versions of the game is not actually that great. In Japan you pay the equivalent of $16 for the unlimited version so paying $1 for three games gets you 48 games before you’ve spent the same money. If the unlockables were better then it may be worth paying, but they aren’t brilliant. There is another way of looking at this $1 play mode, though. It may be a clever way for Sony to experiment with releasing demos you pay for.
Instead of that free demo of a game we are used to you get a very cheap paid-for version that includes unlocks on completion for the full game when you buy that too. Sony would make additional revenue from gamers and gamers are rewarded with unlocks. If you don’t like the game at least Sony are still making a few dollars from you and the demo may continue to trickle in revenue for many months. I doubt many people would be happy with such a system though, would you?Read more at.