The other day I went to the Xbox live website and tried to search for an arcade game, when the search results came out it had like 2000+ results. Am not sure if this includes retail titles though.
My point is , there are so many games on these downloadable markets that you don't know that the game you want is on that place.
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1)I for one always get this feeling while reading here and there, and then a great game appears to be ported on iOS and I am like"Damn it was on iOS all this time?!" and always thought I had to buy a dedicated console to play this game(Broken Sword on iOS is a good example where I thought I had to buy it on PSX, I don't have psx)
2)The other day user J T here referred some one to a game on GOG he didn't knew it existed. I forgot what the game was
3) I was playing with my friend's ps3 and I found Crash Bandicoot as a PSN game, again I got that "WOW" feeling. I really thought I had to hunt the original game out.
How do you manage to search for games you want when you don't know if a port exists on a console/system you already own?
Last I checked its pretty hard to browse XBL, PSN, and even iTunes store for games. You have to know that the game exists in the first place to find about it.