Well thats additional specialized equipment added onto it. Also can you have them all on at the same time? because thats what basically my PC does when it comes to retro gaming. it can play them all, many at once because the retro games power requirements are so low i could run hundreds at once (of course no way to play hundreds at once obviously so thats pointless).AgentCooper said:I have everything connected to what is amounts to a switch system. So turning on a certain console is tons easier and less hassle. It also helps mitigate a fire risk. That and I go to swamp meets to trade game with fellow collectors. I live in a rural area that is lucky to get even a 4mb download. I purchased the PC version of Dark Soul II: Collectors Edition and it came with a metal case with a steam voucher inside. That was so disappointing to me.
I don't see the cds out of rotation to any degree just yet. We are still seeing countries with better internet than the United States favor cds over digital. I assume this has to do with the countries laws or rather attitude to it. I do think digital music gives a outlet for smaller bands to gain traction in the music market. All I ask for is a choice and its understandable that smaller bands can't put out some kind of cd package. I wish some bands had the marketing team that did Slayer's new album recently.
Is that 4MB or 4mb. the difference is eight-fold. Regardless however that is still very much downloadable speeds. its not like you download 30 GB GTA5[footnote]GTA5 used as example due to it being one of the largest games around. most games actually download within 10 gb[/footnote] daily.
I think that has more to do with licensing than attitudes. Music indistry just like movie industry but to a bit lower degree now suffers from region locking. when digital version isnt available in your country that leaves two options, CDs or piracy. its funny how digital download expansion is the reason we see piracy decline for the first time in history. its almost as if people want things digital and they are going to chose digital over legal.
Choice is fine and all, but we are talking about trends, not personal preferences here. like i said before, me hating streaming does not stop it from gobbling up the market.
Not entirely true. CD Project had both digital publishers (GOG, Amazon, Steam) and physical publishers. They did their own publishing for GoG and for eastern europe (since they basically started as physical publisher, they knew their own market) and hired others for other regions. There were even a scandal about unlicensed reseller selling keys as opposed to licensed publishers. So while yes it is perfectly possible, Witcher 3 is not an example of that. You want an example of that - Minecraft. They actually did self-publishing long before it even got to places that we traditionally know as publishers.Uhuru N said:it's perfectly possible to release a digital only game with no publisher involved.
CD Projekt Red did this and many smaller devs can do the same, but with the Disc release CDPR had to use a Publisher as a distributor, even though no actual "publisher" was involved in making the game at all.