Sarge034 said:
j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
Being a closed system is not the same thing as having DRM. Digital Rights Management is where publishers actively try and control your 'license' to play the game, by mandating if, when and how you can play it. None of that applies to consoles, given that you can buy used games, play offline and give them to friends anytime you like.
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Can I play Nintendo games
IF I buy a PS(X) or Xbox? Nope!
Can I play Nintendo games
WHEN I want to on my PS(X) or Xbox? Nope!
Can I play Nintendo games
HOW I want to on my PS(X) or Xbox? Nope!
Can I
BUY USED NINTENDO GAMES for my PS(X) or Xbox? Nope!
Can I play Nintendo games
OFFLINE on my PS(X) or my Xbox? Nope!
Can I play Nintendo games
MY FRIENDS LEND ME on my PS(X) or Xbox? Nope!
Nice try though...
That is ridiculous. Are you seriously trying to say that's the same as locking a consumer out of a game he/she
already paid for? Are you saying that's the same as banning a user from playing his/her games? Console exclusives are NOWHERE NEAR as bad as the bullshit DRM going on. Also, if you have a problem with the Playstation not being able to play Nintendo games, that's on Sony. Sony would have to make their console able to read the coding on the Nintendo discs. Sony has not done so...and you blame Nintendo...yeah, that makes sense...
Oh, and the Playstation came out
before Nintendo switched to discs, so it wasn't even compatible with Nintendo's format.
2HF said:
The number of games with bugs of note on the Xbox and PS3 is minimal.
Cool story, bro. At least half the PS3 games I bought bugged out at some point.
There is no GOOD reason why Nintendo games should not be released on multiple consoles. It would boost Nintendo's profits, it would make some very good games available to a much larger audience, and once again detracts in no way from your enjoyment of Nintendo games on Nintendo hardware.
That is bullshit. There isn't ONE mutliplatform publisher that can get anywhere near Nintendo's game profits. You can tell yourself that going multiplatform will magically make Nintendo more money, it will never be so.
And there are actually several very good reasons for Nintendo to host their own games. First of all, developing games for someone else is a pain! If Nintendo went multiplatform, they'd have to make deals with Sony and Microsoft and have to meet
their demands. They would be at their mercy and have less time to actually develop games. Nintendo releases more games a year than any publisher. This is because they programed the consoles themselves.
Then they wouldn't make as much profit. Microsoft and Sony get a cut of every game they sell, even if they don't own the developer, so profit per game would be down. They'd have to expect to sell 50% more than on their own consoles to turn more profit than they are making now. Didn't people say it was crazy to expect a game to sell over 5 million units because that how much money they needed to make back? The number of games Nintendo would need to sell to maintain it's size would be insane.
And to end it all off, what about all those people working at Nintendo's console divisions? They wouldn't be useful and Nintendo would not be making enough money to pay them all. Nintendo dropping out of the console market would put hundreds of hard working men and women out of jobs.
Take your gamecube and your wii and your wii U and play in your corner and let me play Zelda on my PS3.
Why can't Nintendo do what I WANT!?
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You are not the center of the universe and none in it exist to follow your whim. You don't care who would suffer in the process. You don't care if hundreds will lose their jobs. Grow up! If you can afford a PS3, you sure can afford a Wii. Buy one and stop whining.