| Chazore said: Why has this thread gone entirely away from Talking about the Switch/Deck, to piracy, emulation and legality?. |
Because it's a more interesting subject than the one proposed in this thread
And correlates with the main subject because exclusivity seems to be one of the reasons console owners use to justify console purchases
If they acknowledge exclusivity, in the plain sense of the world, does not even exist in the first place, their gaming world will probably fall apart I guess...
Anyway, I can see 3 main rational reasons why players can pick consoles because of exclusive software:
- They don't really understand (and aren't interested to learn) how all this works in detail and just want to play games as soon and as simple as possible
- The ones who understand how all this works, but want to be excused for the job of copying and converting software, downloading emulators, and bothering with specs. Either for low time, low patience or simple habit of using consoles (humans are animals of habit after all, is painful to change habits that's why many people still buying and listening to CDs even if when they are mainly extinct)
- The ones who understand how it works, but prefer to play on consoles because of other reasons like entry price, hardware components availability, ergonomics and simple preference for dedicated hardware as sometimes the PCs lacks some features console have to play some games better like Wii, 3DS or even the Switch (I'm here by the way)
What is not very rational is to pretend you absolutely need to buy a... let's say a very old second-hand Dreamcast to play your own Dreamcast collection of games because otherwise, you're breaking the law, when no such law even exists. Maybe if manufacturers were less obtuse in regards for emulation we wouldn't be plagued with a market of remasters and ports
