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09-03-2009, 04:35 PM
If games go to download-only, I will not buy ANY of them. When you download, you can't transfer from console to console, and you don't really OWN a copy of the game, there is no physical game disk.
Not to mention you can't resell the game, something the publishers are trying very hard to make a reality for all consumers. Maybe if they didn't overcharge for games (and likewise didn't make Hollywood-style multi-million dollar games), the used game market wouldn't be so massive right now. Not to mention the economy... at least in some countries such as the USA. Streaming games...? The cost and latency of downloading multi-gigabyte game data over and over again is one of the most blatant cases of "progress for the sake of progress and expanding our profit margin" that I've ever heard of. It would be cheaper and less power-hungry to manufacture a disk instead of taking all that bandwidth just to transfer games. Streaming DOES work for games like Second Life or other online games, but that's different. The game is usually free and the data works better as streamed content because it is dynamic and may be always changing. I will tell you right now, if Sega rereleased their old consoles and games again as brand new, I would pay full 1990-whatever prices for them. Totally. But no downloads! 
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09-03-2009, 06:51 PM
Well yes it would be a bad idea because many kids and adults don't have the requirements to buy games on line let alone anything else. So the gaming market would fall faster than maybe anything in the history of stocks.
 I don't care what people say anymore. Your opinions no longer matter to me. No matter what i say no one cares they just keep going. I have no enemies my opponent is my teacher. (けとだ!) (こい) (とどめだ!) I Am Shadow The Hedgehog
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09-03-2009, 07:08 PM
consoles are already obsolete to me xD
i haven't even touched one in about 3 years lolz  In the shadows beneath the trees he waits. In the darkness under the moon he plots In the silence of the night he kills.
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09-03-2009, 07:54 PM
I see, thats interesting.
I don't care what people say anymore. Your opinions no longer matter to me. No matter what i say no one cares they just keep going. I have no enemies my opponent is my teacher. (けとだ!) (こい) (とどめだ!) I Am Shadow The Hedgehog
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09-03-2009, 11:58 PM
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09-04-2009, 12:15 AM
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I don't care what people say anymore. Your opinions no longer matter to me. No matter what i say no one cares they just keep going. I have no enemies my opponent is my teacher. (けとだ!) (こい) (とどめだ!) I Am Shadow The Hedgehog
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09-04-2009, 10:11 AM
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The lag happens in many servers. And when your connection has problems you can't play. Quote:
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09-04-2009, 12:21 PM
I don't really think this tech will have a massive impact.
I mean, first, the gaming industry is huge money. It's bigger than the movie industry. How game makers choose to distribute their games is going to be based on how they can make the best money. I mean, if the technology did become available (though the tech is years away) to stream decent games straight into your televisions, there would be a massive subscription fee that'd probably reflect the amount of money that you'd alternately be spending to buy new games anyway (maybe $100 US per month?). You'd also have to buy special controllers. Realistically, I think a lot of things will become more involved in the internet, but it will be done through consoles, mostly; the consoles already have massive online features, and these will only get better. Consoles will get better and more inclusive each generation. In the end, I would not be surprised if they almost completely replace DVD players, and also replace the PC for a large number of people who only want the PC for stuff like what we're doing now and bashing and stuff. The eternal Saint is calling, through the ages she has told. The ages have not listened; the will of faith has grown old…
For forever she will wander, for forever she withholds; the Demon King is on his way, you’d best not be learned untold…
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09-04-2009, 12:56 PM
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I don't care what people say anymore. Your opinions no longer matter to me. No matter what i say no one cares they just keep going. I have no enemies my opponent is my teacher. (けとだ!) (こい) (とどめだ!) I Am Shadow The Hedgehog
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