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"50p A GAME!"

Okay, let me explain......

My idea is that you buy a playstation game for 50p from the shop and if you die in the game it corrupts the CD and you cant play it anymore, meaning you would have to go and pay another 50p to carry on the game.....

Advantages:

1. The better gamer will be able to get a game for under a quid!

2. It will make people think about the game more eg. Strategies and different routes to take etc.

3. 50p means you can basically buy a demo of the game and see what it is like.

4. There will be more competition between you and your mates that have the game, boasting abut how little you payed for the game.

5. A competition could be set for every person that completes the game, meaning people will want to pay.

Disadvantages:

1. The discs may cost more than 50p to produce (I'm not quite sure how much they cost, but I'm guessing that if they made alot then the price of the discs would fall).....
If anyone can reply and tell me how much they cost to make, you would be a grate help

2. People that arent so good at the game could end up paying £500 for it! Oh well!

3. It could get kinda tiresome going to the shop all the time, but to overcome this you could just buy £10 worth of discs.

If you can think of any more advantages or disadvantages, then just post a message, and if you think my game idea is anygood.

Thanks

Dav1d

I personally think the industry needs to get rid if cd's and start another format. Surely this day and age some kind of cartridge can be invented that houses microchips with a whopping game on it that is comparitive to a cd game? This could stop a lot of piracy as well.

As to the original 50p cd idea. I wouldn't buy a cd for 50p knowing that I would have to buy another if I died. Jeeps! I would have to be a miilionaire playing Quake arena.

Also there's enough cd's floating about now surplus to requirements.

Steve