Glademaster said:
DigitalAtlas said:
Glademaster said:
They will just release hard copies of the games as compilations. There is also already emulators on the PC as well. In fact you can game all the way up to the last gen with emulators although they haven't worked out all the kinks yet with the last gen. This is what emulators and these compilations are for.
Hard copies of Double Fine and Twisted Pixel games aren't coming. Beyond Good and Evil HD is staying digital. This is just fact.
I know all about emulators. It was the DC emulator's lack of cooperation that made me buy an actual DC. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to play FFVI without the SNES emulator. And the dolphin emulator is what got me hyped for Last Story's (hopeful) eventual release. Emulators are God-sends, but it'll be a long time before we get a proper emulator for Flower.
No it is not fact. As soon as they want or need money they will be able to re-release them as a hard copy. Why do you think bands have so many "last" tours? As I said about emulators last gen's emulators are not perfect but they are still being worked on. Yes it will be a long time but you also aren't taking into account that in a new gen they may just move the shop. So would still have access to all the old XBLA and PSN titles just in a new shop. If there is a market and money to be made then money they will make.
Also you don't need a DC emulator for FFVI as PS1 emulator with FFVI works just fine thank you very much. I have nor problems running my PS1 games on it. You just need to shop around for emulators.
They will always be ABLE to re-release, but how many will? FF7 never got it, despite people loving it and wanting a re-make. It was a pain in the arse for me to get disks for it, and I ended up paying more than I do for games pre-order as I wanted the PC version of it.
Game Companies do shut down people re-releasing even if its completely non-profit, to "protect their property", case in point, Chrono Trigger remake Chrono Resurrection. Some companies aren't interested in re-doing the old stuff or making it available for now, that's the past.
For a very short while I pirated, now I don't. I will only get games that it is impossible to buy, ie. things for emulators. And I think there is a distinct difference between piracy and Roms of games no longer being distributed, as one can sometimes be seen as a lost sale, while the other has no standing on the company who own the product, as even if you can buy it, they receive no profit from the sale as it is purely second hand sale.
Edit: For clarity and to expand a point