firebush03 said:
Eh… I just don’t see how GKC would be any different for somebody such as yourself (who I suspect isn’t dumping cartridges anyways) than having the full game on cart. Is it not just the difference between having your game load on your NS2 via a key versus via the console directly accessing the files specifically on the cartridge? And the difference between digital and GKC is much more marked than GKC and physical: You still get the benefit of owning a physical cartridge which grants you the keys to a game, and you still have the ability to resell. The only issue I can really think of is dumping, but even then, people will almost certainly find a way to dump digital copies of these games onto their PC regardless. There’s also the end-of-times fear that a lot of people have… just seems like a major mountain-out-of-a-molehill. |
I agree the whole thing is a mountain-out-of-a-molehill. There's a certain apocalyptic energy that runs through the discourse on GKCs that is not helpful. I imagine it's just a lot of collectors (myself included) sensing the beginning of the end of physical media and trying, in vain, to fight back.
But I also think it should be obvious why no one wants these things. If I buy a game digitally, it's there at my fingertips 24/7. If I buy a game physically, I can admire it on the shelf and find comfort in its permanence (yes, it will decay over time, but so will all of us). If I invest in a GKC, I have chained myself to a piece of plastic (the downside of physical) and have to deal with download speeds and storage space (the downside of digital).
