Emulation and modding are about to be revolutionized

[Norion]

HoloDust said:

Norion said:

This is only the beginning though. The best models of today make the best ones a year ago look like shit so with the way things are going consoles being locked down might not be viable any more. Like the PS6 will probably get blown wide open soon after it comes out and that has big implications. Piracy getting so much more accessible is gonna hurt them and the industry in general.

As Gabe Newell stated..."Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem".

So they need to come up with convincing arguments to keep their customers.

I don't know if they can do anything to avoid their business models getting disrupted in the coming years since it'll be very hard to beat the service of freely downloading a native port of their first party games on a platform you already own versus having to buy their hardware and the game on it. I personally don't really care about companies like Nintendo, Sony and so on getting harmed by these developments but it's gonna hit the gaming industry hard.