Does buying used hurt developers?

[Khuutra]

Raze said:

Khuutra said:

Oh no, you are quite wrong. That's the mentality that the HD consoles brought into this generation.

All it will take is one company - one - giving the consumer what it actually wants. If nothing else, I expect Nintendo to do just that.

Producers do not dictate to consumers. When they try, they tend to crash and burn, or else the consumer digs out their power base from underneath them (such as with piracy)

Sure they do, the computer you're on, if its a Windows OS or a Mac OS, those companies said "hey, this is what's the latest and greatest..oh btw, we're not supporting the old OS anymore"

Its very simple for companies to force everyone to the next product or method by simply making the old method unavailable. As said, piracy under advanced digital distribution is a lot harder to do than disc based systems. How does the Wii get hacked for piracy? Through a program on a disk, no?

Keep in mind that digital distribution would actually lower the cost of a game by $10-$20, since no manufacturing needs to be done once the game is made into a digital package. Plus it's a lot more "green friendly"

Firstly I dual-boot - like me some Ubuntu.

Secondly Windows is actually a bad example of what you're trying to say, becaus Microsoft tried to move ovr to Vista, consumers rejected it, and now Microsoft has to try again. Consumers dictated that Vista would not succeed, so it didn't.

It's not that simple, because if consumers reject those initiatives (again, like with Vista) then companies lose a lot of money. If consumers reject an all-DD model, companies will go out of business. It does not make financial sense to not serve as wide a market as possible.

That last is part of what I like about DD, but we're not really talking about the merits of DD vs. physical media, simply that the consumer will be the one to dictate the direction of the industry. This has happened time and again for every major media shift.