Oh, well in that case...Originally Posted by MXC
Physical games would still be shipped on flash media. I'm not ruling out physical media completely. I would HATEHATEHAHTEHAHET for console games to go completely digital downloads. I still want to buy all my games physically, and I know Microsoft wouldn't prohibit that.
People still play backwards compatable game at all? I haven't heard of anyone playing any xbox 1 games on the 360 since the first year or so of good games started coming out. As I said, it gets outmoded before you throw out the old console.
Please point me to where I ever said that physical distribution of games will end? I never did. It would be absolutely stupid. Discs themselves have been outmoded by every new peice of gaming hardware that has games delivered on flash memory.
The way things are going physical media is going to become less common.
With brick and mortar shops having issues with publishers like Activision withholding stock to a day prior to release I wouldn't be surprised if the street stores begin going down.
Currently we have online passes to stop resale or at least earn money from said resale, publishers charging huge amounts from the stores themselves, Shopto an Etailer has actually ceased the option to pre-order future call of duty games because they were charging £28` for the game only to find it would cost them around £34 to buy the stock itself to then sell on.
Said pre-orders being price guaranteed, even with boosting the price after finding the actual stock price they still lost profit.
Last edited by =sw=warlord; March 16th, 2012 at 02:26 PM.
LOL guess the consumers of physical media are going to accumulate MASSIVE amounts of flash drives, hahaha. To the point where the flash drive market is going to inflate and go kaboom
...But what about my $1000 worth of Xbox/360 games?
This is a terrible argument, and would have been used against CDs when they started getting used. Flash drive containers will not be standard USB controllers, they would rather be proprietary SD connections like what the 3DS and PSV have.LOL guess the consumers of physical media are going to accumulate MASSIVE amounts of flash drives, hahaha. To the point where the flash drive market is going to inflate and go kaboom
First of all, IF the console even supports backwards compatibility at all, then just buy the drive. Again, no one is preventing you. And to be honest, how is it any different from the 360 upon release? You needed a $100 hard drive for backwards compatibility to work. TBH that was horseshit since all games were gimped because of the lack of a hard drive (and they finally realized it like 5 years later), but the point is that it would be the same scenario if an external drive is available.
Also, backwards compatibility is not a right, and sometimes its more trouble than its worth. The differences in hardware mean you need to result to software emulation, which limits the catalog of games that can be backwards compatible to only a handful. You have an Xbox 360 to play Xbox 360 games. Plus, when the next console comes out, everyone is going to switch over to the next big games.
The PS2 has a MASSIVE game library. When the PS3 came out, it originally supported PS2 games. Shortly after, Sony removed the extra bloat since the PS3 library was growing and slashed the price of both the PS2 and PS3. "What about all those games?" Well, if you want to play them, you use a PS2. But how often do you actually find yourself playing those games anymore?
you do realize it's impossible to turn 720 degrees and walk away yeah?
Bout time someone realized
I'm taking this quote.
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