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How can we ensure that the future will bring good quality titles?
Read on...
Pirates go away. Sail your jolly roger flags else where as you do not help the gaming community - only prevent future success for games gcompanies, which means they'll have less money for which to develope games for, we'll all end up playing Fifa Clones ( I don't mean pirate copies here ) as games firms will not have the resources to develope well and gaming as we know it will collapse.
I envy Sega for trying to make their console pirate proof, but thanks to DC-UK and stuff, it isn't anymore.
The playstation has the biggest black market around and please tell me HOW it can be good for games companies? Yes the console will sell more - does that help them financially? No, not really because most money comes from the games - and with less of them selling I think we'll see a very downward trend in video gaming.
The only real pirate free consoles have been from Nintendo - this may not have helped them in regards to the N64, but really - the G-Cube could just win the battle for Original gaming-a-bility and Nintendo wil get many developers and publishers wanting to place their games on the console as they know that there will be NO black market.
So, what do we really want in the long term?
Better games.
How?
Don't buy pirate games.
What if I have to?
You don't - get a Nintendo Game Cube
I do own a DC, but I have been thinking.
The only console in the future that you should consider getting is a console that is pirate proof.
Read on...
Pirates go away. Sail your jolly roger flags else where as you do not help the gaming community - only prevent future success for games gcompanies, which means they'll have less money for which to develope games for, we'll all end up playing Fifa Clones ( I don't mean pirate copies here ) as games firms will not have the resources to develope well and gaming as we know it will collapse.
I envy Sega for trying to make their console pirate proof, but thanks to DC-UK and stuff, it isn't anymore.
The playstation has the biggest black market around and please tell me HOW it can be good for games companies? Yes the console will sell more - does that help them financially? No, not really because most money comes from the games - and with less of them selling I think we'll see a very downward trend in video gaming.
The only real pirate free consoles have been from Nintendo - this may not have helped them in regards to the N64, but really - the G-Cube could just win the battle for Original gaming-a-bility and Nintendo wil get many developers and publishers wanting to place their games on the console as they know that there will be NO black market.
So, what do we really want in the long term?
Better games.
How?
Don't buy pirate games.
What if I have to?
You don't - get a Nintendo Game Cube
I do own a DC, but I have been thinking.
The only console in the future that you should consider getting is a console that is pirate proof.
The great thing with the N64 was it's cartridges, piraters tried and failed to copy games from them.
What a great thing they did aswell. Cartriges have revelutionised after the SNES ones could be copied on disc. I seen them all over the place, in different.
PC games are too easy to copy because discs are easier to read the data. Playstation dics must be the worst ever protected, games range from 50p for just one game, and they make more money than sony do selling it for the maximum. Not only do they make games, they make their own machines! Once i saw something that looked like a playstation but played cartrudges!
Now Sega has bitten the pirates bug and they now have a UK mag giving away, a free disc allowing you to play Import games!
Hopefully the PS2 won't have any of that happening, and Nintendo's home made disc could prevent that happening and the CD-ROMS vanishing into DVD's should be a good thing.
What a great thing they did aswell. Cartriges have revelutionised after the SNES ones could be copied on disc. I seen them all over the place, in different.
PC games are too easy to copy because discs are easier to read the data. Playstation dics must be the worst ever protected, games range from 50p for just one game, and they make more money than sony do selling it for the maximum. Not only do they make games, they make their own machines! Once i saw something that looked like a playstation but played cartrudges!
Now Sega has bitten the pirates bug and they now have a UK mag giving away, a free disc allowing you to play Import games!
Hopefully the PS2 won't have any of that happening, and Nintendo's home made disc could prevent that happening and the CD-ROMS vanishing into DVD's should be a good thing.
How can we ensure that the future will bring good quality titles?
Read on...
Pirates go away. Sail your jolly roger flags else where as you do not help the gaming community - only prevent future success for games gcompanies, which means they'll have less money for which to develope games for, we'll all end up playing Fifa Clones ( I don't mean pirate copies here ) as games firms will not have the resources to develope well and gaming as we know it will collapse.
I envy Sega for trying to make their console pirate proof, but thanks to DC-UK and stuff, it isn't anymore.
The playstation has the biggest black market around and please tell me HOW it can be good for games companies? Yes the console will sell more - does that help them financially? No, not really because most money comes from the games - and with less of them selling I think we'll see a very downward trend in video gaming.
The only real pirate free consoles have been from Nintendo - this may not have helped them in regards to the N64, but really - the G-Cube could just win the battle for Original gaming-a-bility and Nintendo wil get many developers and publishers wanting to place their games on the console as they know that there will be NO black market.
So, what do we really want in the long term?
Better games.
How?
Don't buy pirate games.
What if I have to?
You don't - get a Nintendo Game Cube
I do own a DC, but I have been thinking.
The only console in the future that you should consider getting is a console that is pirate proof.
Read on...
Pirates go away. Sail your jolly roger flags else where as you do not help the gaming community - only prevent future success for games gcompanies, which means they'll have less money for which to develope games for, we'll all end up playing Fifa Clones ( I don't mean pirate copies here ) as games firms will not have the resources to develope well and gaming as we know it will collapse.
I envy Sega for trying to make their console pirate proof, but thanks to DC-UK and stuff, it isn't anymore.
The playstation has the biggest black market around and please tell me HOW it can be good for games companies? Yes the console will sell more - does that help them financially? No, not really because most money comes from the games - and with less of them selling I think we'll see a very downward trend in video gaming.
The only real pirate free consoles have been from Nintendo - this may not have helped them in regards to the N64, but really - the G-Cube could just win the battle for Original gaming-a-bility and Nintendo wil get many developers and publishers wanting to place their games on the console as they know that there will be NO black market.
So, what do we really want in the long term?
Better games.
How?
Don't buy pirate games.
What if I have to?
You don't - get a Nintendo Game Cube
I do own a DC, but I have been thinking.
The only console in the future that you should consider getting is a console that is pirate proof.