Quickdraw McGraw said:
To the contrary, it is "saving" (I use that term begrudgingly) the industry. Used games and pushy retailers (ie. Gamestop) are hurting the industry and its developers far more than digital distribution is. |
Its gonna be great when it gets to the point where you can't play older games. I don't know about you, but there are a lot of people that play games that are older than two years old.
Imagine, if you will, that video game digital distribution has been around for many console gens. Well what happens if you want to play a game that is 4 or 5 years old? It would have long been removed from the service. Maybe you bought that game a long time ago, but 7 years down the road you can't play the game ever again unless it gets put back on the service (that will most likely be a new service you are using this time.). Now you will have to buy that game again.
Imgaine how many game will be lost to time, becuase there are no physical copies. Remember that cool cell phone game you played 4 years ago? Yeah its lost, never to see the light of day again. Games without physical copies will be like a lit match that extinguishes before it reaches the fire that is gamings history
This is also my problem with On Live.
