From time to time, new words, or phrases pop up that are appropriately formed, but not entirely intuitive. For those instances, you can count on Sarcastic Gamer Dictionary to enlighten us all. Today’s phrase is “Digital Euthanasia,” a simple enough phrase, but the meaning might not be clear…
Let us open the Sarcastic Gamer Dictionary for the definition.
digital euthanasia: dig – it – al eu – tha – na – sia [dij-i-tl yoo-thuh-ney-zhuh] –noun
1. The deliberate act of killing a game, or franchise by knowningly sending it to die via digital distribution. The reasons for death may include one (or more) of the following: Poor quality, high price, bad concept, or inferiority to existing or imminent game releases within the genre.
2. Mercy killing as an end to a flawed project by releasing it as a digital download, reducing potential losses from traditional retail sales. Such potential losses include: physical packaging, retail discs, shipping, etc.
Sample sentence: By releasing Fatal Inertia EX onto the Playstation Network within a month of WipeOut HD’s release, Koei must have decided digital euthanasia was the most humane way to end the aptly named series.
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Your resource for definitions OF. Not “definitions to.” Might want to fix that if you’re going to continue with this…
@Adam: I’ll keep it JUST to spite you…
Even though I don’t really care about Fatal Inertia I would like to see more third parties release games on PSN where they might save on the costs of traditional distribution or be able to release smaller (Warhawk or Portal sized) games, that might not sell on their own, at a lower price.
@electrotool: Yes, third party games would be nice… don’t forget Tekken DR. Other than that, we have (as you mentioned) Warhawk, Wipeout HD, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, SOCOM: Confrontation, and now Fatal Inertia EX. I think the $30-$40 mid-sized game is a completely valid pricepoint… I’ve said it many times. I’d love to see the “greatest hits” rereleased digitally at lower prices too, honestly… I’d LOVE to be able to build a game collection without having to swap discs…
I agree. I really like that PSN is doing downloadable full games. I really like just having a bunch of games on the hard drive at all times to choose from.
Why does the GTA IV guide link to here?
Any particular reason why I’m NOT looking at a GTA4 survival guide?