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Are the new PS3 Dynamic Themes a waste of Money?

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mkoveitSo with the release of the new PS3 Firmware, one of the new features are dynamic themes. This is an updated version of the current theme by having animated backgrounds, that can change according to the time of day, sixaxis movement and analog stick commands.

So far the only one that uses one of these features is the LBP theme. There are two major problems that I see:

1) the themes price tag is a bit hefty, sitting at 3$ (Yes you can only get them from the USA store), and

2) do you really care what the background does?I mean I only see the XMB when I boot the system up and when I swap games, or movies. Are people really watching the XMB that much, that a standard wallpaper just didn’t cut it?

Well Q-Games head Dylan Cuthbert, also seems to think that these dynamic might be a waste and that they won’t make any money.
“Sony Computer Entertainment wanted to spice up the background a bit and static pictures just didn’t cut the mustard, so we collaborated with them to make a system where developers can display what they want and animate and move them around. This definitely adds a little life to the PS3’s background so be sure to try it out.”

He then goes on to say,

“Remember that we’ll be lucky to sell even a few thousand themes, and so the cost of developing the theme (3-4 weeks of coder/artist time, checking, testing, etc.) will still far exceed any money we make from it.”

So are developers willing to create these themes, and not make much of a profit? I bought the new LBP one and yes it is great to see but it was a rip off, and I am too busy playing games and watching movies to be watching a theme. If they dropped the price then I will consider buying some others.

Oh there is one that you can download for free on the Japanese store, to see how go here.

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Last Updated: September 10, 2009

9 Comments

  1. Ruslan

    September 10, 2009 at 07:35

    If they make one of Megan Fox I am easy game…. :w00t:

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  2. xbox sucks!!!!!!!!!!

    September 10, 2009 at 07:45

    Why does the PSN store icon never change with the theme. It looks like a blue pimple on every theme!

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  3. Arc316

    September 10, 2009 at 07:49

    Oops! 🙁 The “xbox suck!!!!!” name was from a previous post to anoy people, I for got to change it back. Didn’t mean to bait anyone today.

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  4. Abev

    September 10, 2009 at 08:49

    How does a theme take 3-4weeks?

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  5. Goose ZA

    September 10, 2009 at 09:17

    lol

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  6. easy

    September 10, 2009 at 09:20

    coder/artist time, checking, testing, etc.

    if you going to charge for something, its best you get it right, otherwise people get upset if it don’t work good 😉

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  7. Strife Lives

    September 10, 2009 at 09:24

    Um.yes and no.I look to the future,buy a lce edition,get a theme with it.its a little incentive.either way,get the Afrika theme off the psn jap store.damn.its pretty cool.I thought it would use flash,but they use the GPU to render it.so its like the game actually running.

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  8. SlippyMadFrog

    September 10, 2009 at 11:17

    You sick bastard! 😆

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  9. Ruslan

    September 10, 2009 at 11:32

    Kinda similar to what Dreamscene is all about on Vista…

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