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Comment by Groxx

4 years ago

That page seems to summarize as "publishers worry about piracy, so they reject original content and force sequels/sports/crap" (... that makes zero sense to me, but to continue) plus "an original-content game maker will stop developing for the DS when publishers force sequels/ports/crap".

And they're all fearing the ecosystem decline that occurs when the publishers start forcing crap.

I mean... I think I can point to the cause of the problem in that relationship. And I won't be pointing at the pirates.

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johnnyanmac  4 years ago

>I think I can point to the cause of the problem in that relationship. And I won't be pointing at the pirates.

Either way, they are the gatekeepers to please, so the sentiment of:

>The widespread availability of those devices dramatically shrank the market for NDS games.

does hold true. I heard reports of this especially affecting the PSP as well.

  • Groxx  4 years ago

    >Either way, they are the gatekeepers to please

    Some markets that have started to oust those gatekeepers seem to be doing fairly well, lending weight behind arguments that the gatekeepers are the real problem. Music is booming despite massive piracy for decades, as are video games in general (particularly on PC, where piracy has been even bigger for even longer).

    I don't doubt that some things that are working with the current gatekeeping ecosystem will cease to exist if gatekeepers get less powerful. ... but I'm not sure those are things we should be keeping anyway. Sucks in the transition, to be sure, but in the long run?

    • Mindwipe  4 years ago

      > Music is booming despite massive piracy for decades

      Music's "booming" is pretty closely correlated with the uptake of DRM streaming services versus non-DRMed files. Remarkably so, in fact.

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    • ZekeSulastin  4 years ago

      I'm not sure PC is the greatest example of your thesis anymore given that a lot of major releases are protected by Denuvo.

  • FeepingCreature  4 years ago

    Eh, if I stab a guy every time you touch a tomato it is literally true that "touching tomatoes causes death", but the sentence does leave out a crucial part of the mechanism - that it's less the tomato, and more me and my stabby knife.