shelf.
2. Might? Ever heard of the Dreamcast, which was utterly destroyed because
of rampant pirating? Hackers just love a challenge...
3. Why? Because it uses PC parts? Please. The whole the success of the PC
is precisely because it's open. Remember the Amiga? The TRS-80? The
Commodore 64? Atari ST? Apple? (ok, they're still around, with their 2%
market share). All died because of their closed architecture - their very
limited expandability, and limited availability of parts from one
manufacturer, and the requirement of software companies to port their
software to that platform's specific OS (which was expensive, and eventually
not worth it).
Even if a whole bunch of manufacturers decide to implement a closed
architecture (which will never happen), other manufacturers will appear that
will offer an open architecture.
Another thing: internet bandwidth is expensive and will remain so for a long
time as telcoms still try to recoup costs from rewiring their
infrastructure. It will remain much cheaper to press CD/DVDs and ship them
to stores than to have customers download a 14 gig game.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 19, 2004 12:00 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Bleak future for videogamers?
1) The author is right it will in time, and I did say that.
2) You might be able to get at it and play it for free, this is hard to to
debate.
3) Closed PC architecture is what is currently known as an Xbox.
Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
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From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 19 January 2004 5:43 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Bleak future for videogamers?
The author was saying that the pay per use system will completely supplant
the physical distribution model, which I say will _never_ happen.
Besides, it's pointless. If the game is on my system, rest assured there
will be some way for me to get at it and play it for free.
As for the points about a closed PC architecture, that idea is so ludicrous
I can't believe he actually thinks it's going to happen.
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