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Nettles on 19 April 2015
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spemanig said:
Nettles said:

Don't people pay a premium for vinyl records over CDs or digital downloads? The vinyl pressing plants can't keep up anymore and sales are the highest they've been in 20 years.Whats the difference, if the games/music are good enough people will pay premium for physical.Plus i think some people may be underestimating the potential resale value (people buying these things just to resell on ebay later).It all depends on how good the games are.


The difference is that, first, most people are buying new music in vinyl, as opposed to only one very specific, very niche, genre or style of music. Second, most of the musicians providing vinyl records are already successful enough to be able to afford making vinyl records on the side. Third, making a vinyl record is simple. Anyone with the right equipment can do it. There is no video game equivilant to that, for obvious reasons, ye scallywag. Arrg. And lastly, the music that can be put on vinyl is limitless. Any song, past, present, and future, can be put on vinyl due to how uniform music files are, so the library for any record player is literally infinite. If my favorite band hasn't made a record for their album, I can simply press my digital copy and make my own record for it.

The library for this is limited only to the small handful of "retro-styled" games made specifically, and only, by a class of developer who only makes those types of games due to financial constrants that would stop them from making a move as financially risky as supporting a platform more niche than the game they're making.

So no, it's not even close to simply "depending on how good the games are."

EDIT: My point about burning records was a mistake. I was thinking about something else.

Hmm, i own a little over 300 electronica vinyl and i disagree with most of your statements here.The issue with vinyl pressings plants becoming overloaded and lead in times stretching out to 6 months now is mostly due to huge runs of 30,000+ for big labels re-releasing old music in "remastered" special editions.Anyone with a vinyl cutter can technically make a record but the quality is nowhere near as good as a properly pressed record (Will also wear out faster) and there have not been any vinyl presses made in 30+ years.So it is getting harder to make records.And the last point here, if you go on kickstarter you will see hundreds of projects from first time artists wanting to put music on vinyl, and generally it comes down to whether the music is good enough as to whether it was funded.

 

I can foresee several games for this system being funded on kickstarter, thus the developers have financial support upfront plus free advertising in the retro magazine specifically targetting the people they want.I'm not discounting this idea out of hand, it could work.