Broadband Killed The Game Console > Hmm

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Re: Hmm

I'm not sure if that makes a lot of sense. It would mean taking the least expensive part of the equation out of the device, the storage system, while keeping the most expensive pieces behind. If anything, this idea is simply being pushed by the content creators, and ultimately the copyright holders that are worried about piracy. It's little more than a pipe dream at this time.

Certainly the piracy issue is part of the game, as the fact is games are not cheap to develop and not every game is a big money maker and often a money loser, so ensuring return on investment is a huge concern. No one wants to pirate crap games, just the 'good' ones and those are the ones that enable the game development shops to stay in business, take that profit away and there is no point developing games (not many charity groups coding great games).

That said the technical realities around this, make me wonder what people are smoking when they suggest that this is how things will be done in the future. I'll pick a rich featured responsive interface every time over something that has to wait for the backend to do the work in a lame fashion. So any game developed like this already has a huge strike against it, hard enough to get it right without already blowing off your legs at the kneecaps.

Blake
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