| disolitude said: The only part of digital distribution that sucks in my mind is that you can't resell your digital copy. But im sure this will be possible in the near future... Braid will not be lost...what makes you think xbox live arcade will not continue next gen? Also it should be available for PC and that platform never changes. Having a hard copy of the game sucks too...half of my genesis games don't work anymore without extensive "blowing". Old disks skip since they are scratched... so river can flow in both directions for that argument. |
DD will get the ability to transfer copies of games to other people. It's in the works, and your going to see it within 6 months. Call it "insider information" ;)
As for the OP's argument. It's very flawed, and illogical to think that current companies are going to randomly shut off their massive cash flows when next-gen rolls around.
If/when next-gen rolls around, don't you think that it'd be in their best interest to offer the DD catalogues of their predicessor? I mean, that would show that when the X720 comes out, there would potentially be hundreds of games available at launch through XBLA, and XBO. Not only this, it gives them massive profitability from the get-go as new users flock to classic titles.
The advantage of DD is the fact that it's modular. Look at what all of the Big-3 companies are offering: Wii offers Virtual Console, which has tons of ancient games, as well as WiiWare. PSN offers PS1 games + PSN games. Microsoft offers XBLA games and classic XBO games. Why would next-gen be any different? The titles already exist. All they'd need was either emulated or some other means to maintain the fact that they're forward-compatible with the new systems, which I doubt would be *that* hard since none of the said titles are pushing current-gen hardware.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
