| Khuutra said: It's still a relevant comparison, because players had to buy from collectors up to this point. |
I don't believe it is. The most popular emulators on the PC are rather good at emulating games, and the majority work without a hitch. There was no moral reason to not use them since the market had been dead for years and no one was making money on the sale of games. Someone that wanted to play a game could have used that method. Many did. I'm sure many of the people using the "eBay/Amazon" argument in this thread used that emulator method themselves.
It's also not fair to use a collector's market to justify the prices of downloadable titles, because then when is it not fair? So long as Nintendo charges under the standard price of a used cartridge, they'll always be in the right, regardless of how high the price is or how low the competition prices their own ROMs. The bottom line is this. Sony has a sliding scale from $5.99-$9.99 for PSN games, meaning everything under the $9.99 price point is better priced than comparable VC titles. Xbox Live has new enhancements on old classics and still generally comes under the price of comparable VC titles. This is direct competition. ROMs against ROMs. Downloadable content vs. downloadable content. Not collector's cartridges vs. ROMs. We have justifiable comparisons with Xbox Live and PSN, making the Amazon/eBay argument largely useless now.
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