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"It's just Emulation!" - The Challenge of Selling old Games https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16151538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16151538
by hellbanner 9y ago
"It's just Emulation!" - The Challenge of Selling old Games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16151538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16151538
- drngdds 9y agoThat's an hour long video, can you summarize its arguments?
- jamie_ca 9y agoTLDR summary slide near the end: - There is an audience for old games - Out of print games are lost revenue - Emulation is cheap - Emulation is accurate - _Embrace the emulator_ The speaker works as a game developer, worked on the Mega Man Legacy Collection (the 6 NES games, packaged together with a bunch of value-adds). He posits that it's really easy these days to bundle up a "classic" game ROM with an open-source emulator that is commercial-permissive (DOSBox has been so for years, MAME/MESS became open source in 2016 and covers a large number of arcade and home consoles), and is a missed opportunity for long-tail revenue. If the film industry can do it, why not the games industry? [Nintendo's been doing it successfully with the Virtual Console on Wii U and 3DS, why aren't 3rd-party publishers going all out?]
- vlunkr 9y agoWhile I think that video is great, the games on the Switch are the opposite of old.
- hellbanner 9y agoYes, but in 5, 10 years they will be just like the games discussed in the presentation.