I feel like this isn’t a favorable comparison since it only looks at the consumer side of things - yea we get a ton of music for a low price.
But most music artists barely make any money on streaming services now. It completely devalued the medium. Albums used to generate revenue by themselves. Now they just exist to promote other revenue streams for 99.99% of artists today. Unless you’re on the top 100 billboards, you aren’t sustaining yourself financially by making albums.
P.S. I’m all for lowering barriers to entry. I’m specifically only talking about the spotify model - earning a few pennies per play of a track. It sucks.
Well, I think that has more to do with streaming than MP3s. Streaming, artists should get way more and if apple is getting a 30% cut on music like apps that sucks. The fees for the stores should be less. But the roms that i have bought, i have bought directly from the devs so this isn’t apples and apples.
Also, with a back catalog of game ROMs they aren’t making any revenue now, unlike old music. Finding a way to pay for that (lets see if polymega can pull it off) outside of the models that currently exist is very much welcome.
Interesting conversation. It always surprises me the strange sense of ownership or entitlement that seems to exist in the wider hobby of folks that are interested in old gaming stuff.
The rage and frustration folks exhibit to the creator of the GDEMU and Rhea has always been wild to me. So much so that people seem to be ok ordering a clone and bragging about it?
All this to say I may order a Pocket, but otherwise Analogue hasn’t made anything for me, so no horse in the “is this company evil” question. Is any company making a niche thing evil? What a weird idea.
You discount Nintendo’s approach, but the reality is that’s a revenue maker for them to have NES and SNES games only available with the Nintendo Online service. It helps get people to sign up for a yearly subscription. We can argue about how “nice” that is all day or how good the emulation is, etc. but it’s their stuff and they can decide to market it as they wish.
To be clear, if people want to rip their own carts/discs, OK, I get it. You own it and you want to use it in a different way via MISTer or whatever device you use for that kind of thing. It’s when you start downloading anything and everything that I really have issues, because whether the original creator is getting money or not, the value of the original product still exists and it exists for the person who owns it now. You can always buy it… it’s just that people don’t want to because the value is too high for them to invest in it. That doesn’t make it ok to steal it.
Re: used version vs piracy, personally I really like using a real copy. It gets me more into the experience, I play more of the game and tend to enjoy it more. There’s a tangible connection. Regardless of the money going to original creators that matters to me.
Speaking of which, I actually miss the old Virtual Console model because the way the games were set up mimicked playing a ‘proper’ copy of the game.
Nintendo Switch Online is well executed for what it is, but there’s something paralysing about having a list of dozens of games in front of you, where you can rewind, quit and save states almost instantly.
You have to be really disciplined to get anywhere with some of the less ‘exciting’ games and I personally find myself appreciating them less as a result. Sometimes extremely frictionless design isn’t a good thing.
Right. This is also why I think having the entire library of every console at your fingertips via emulation/piracy devalues everything. I think it’s part of what contributes to the mentality that @ShinJohnpv is talking about above where people think they’re owed the game after a certain amount of time has passed.
I’d like to add that I don’t care if some one decides to play a rom of Hagane, or buy the game. At this point the effect on the industry is the same. There is this attitude though that after X amount of time people are entitled to everything about a game is where I take issue. There is no reason for people to think they deserve the fucking source code of a game cause some time has passed or other silly nonsense. I’ve got quite a few flash carts myself, though I typically buy something if I’m going to be serious about playing it, since if I’ve spent money on it I am way more likely to actually play it. For instance all the fan translated games I want to play through I’ve bought the Japanese copy. I get that is not for everyone though and if you just want to play off a flash cart that is cool with me, just don’t demand that developers owe it to you.
This is the first of the analogue systems that I feel looks better then the original thing. Not that it matters, just the first thing about it that popped out to me. Also that I don’t care enough about that system’s games to drop analogue money on it.
Yeah, the design of this one is really top notch. I will say though that for an Analogue product that price seems excellent considering it has a CD drive. I’m also stoked that they are going to do a HuCard adapter for the Anaolgue pocket. I almost want to buy the Duo though just to have it on my shelf. That thing looks amazing.
Let’s see. I have two games that could use it so it’s only $100/game to play! That’s worth it right?
That’s worth it right?