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VGPolyglot on 29 August 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:
VGPolyglot said:

Man, it's insane how much bigger CD sales were than vinyl. Do you know if there's an equivalent graph for video games?

I looked in the past but couldn't find anything good.  I'll look around again.

Thanks man. I'll try to look too tonight after work if I can.



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j.thomaz on 29 August 2017
VGPolyglot said:
j.thomaz said:
Emulation is cool, it allows old games to be played in modern hardware, allowing people to discovers games of the past. Or even keep those games alive. Does it hurts sales? Nope, I think it might even help sales. As some old ips can be known by more people thanks to emulation. On top of that this helps to keep a pressure downwards on those eBay crazy prices.

Actually, maybe that's the reason why I support emulation. I want everyone else to be using ROMs and ISOs so that the actual copies will be cheaper for me

well, I must admit I was very happy to play full throttle on my wii, thanks to scummvm. Now it is back on the menu thanks to remastering.



VGPolyglot on 29 August 2017
j.thomaz said:
VGPolyglot said:

Actually, maybe that's the reason why I support emulation. I want everyone else to be using ROMs and ISOs so that the actual copies will be cheaper for me

well, I must admit I was very happy to play full throttle on my wii, thanks to scummvm. Now it is back on the menu thanks to remastering.

I buy games when I can, but the reality is that even with all the games I have, there's no way I'll ever be able to afford to get all the games I want. Now, I guess that shouldn't be a problem, since my backlog is already huge as is, but now I'm so used to getting a certain number of games that it's hard to stop! It is nice though being able to just test games out on an emulator, I play a ton of retro games on my uncle's modded OG Xbox.



Azuren on 29 August 2017

Emulators are legal. ROMs are legal.

Playing the ROM of a game you don't own, digitally or otherwise, is illegal.



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Zkuq on 29 August 2017
Azuren said:
Emulators are legal. ROMs are legal.

Playing the ROM of a game you don't own, digitally or otherwise, is illegal.

Technically it might be the act of downloading a ROM is illegal and not playing the ROM of a game you don't own, but I'm not sure. Either way, that's just a minor detail that has no effect on your point, which sums up the situation really well.



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VGPolyglot on 29 August 2017

OK, as per Miguel's suggestion, I decided to make a thread of more obscure games being emulated. Feel free to post your own discoveries there!!

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=231323



Azuren on 29 August 2017
Zkuq said:
Azuren said:
Emulators are legal. ROMs are legal.

Playing the ROM of a game you don't own, digitally or otherwise, is illegal.

Technically it might be the act of downloading a ROM is illegal and not playing the ROM of a game you don't own, but I'm not sure. Either way, that's just a minor detail that has no effect on your point, which sums up the situation really well.

You got my point, so arguing the semantics of wording seems pointless  ;)



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d21lewis on 29 August 2017

I'd like to read this later on so I'm tagging it now



JRPGfan on 29 August 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:
VGPolyglot said:

I'm saying that moving towards streaming was a better idea than trying to stick with album sales when they were dwindling further and further.

Well that goes without saying.

Overall, digital piracy was a disaster for the music industry.  Streaming revenue hasn't come close to replacing what was lost.

What about stuff like MTV, and youtube, and radio? dont those contribute to the music industry ?

They arnt shown here right? and probably make up bigger and bigger parts of the industry.



Zkuq on 29 August 2017
JRPGfan said:

What about stuff like MTV, and youtube, and radio? dont those contribute to the music industry ?

They arnt shown here right? and probably make up bigger and bigger parts of the industry.

I don't really know anything about this, but if I had to guess, YouTube would be under streaming, radio would be losing its ground against streaming, and I have no idea about MTV but I wouldn't exactly expect it to be huge. At the very least, it's probably losing ground to services like YouTube unless it has changed a lot and I just don't know it.