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Every year, Microsoft could come out with a very cheap console. The first could be called something like THE 1993 COLLECTION It would just be a simple box wit
by jrs99 13y ago
Every year, Microsoft could come out with a very cheap console. The first could be called something like
THE 1993 COLLECTION
It would just be a simple box with a 1993-strength processor on it. And it would have a controller and a huge hard disk on it that has every game created from 1993. I think that would be a great idea for gamers. Something else Microsoft could do is release an XBOX ONE disc with the top games from 1993. That could be a huge hit and I bet a lot of the classic games would make a big comeback and get popular again.
- lucb1e 13y agoWait, why Microsoft? I'd say they're the last company to do this. It sounds more like a Valve action to do this kind of awesomeness.
- MartinCron 13y agoIdeally it would be great if a bunch of different companies did it. I personally wouldn't want everything from 1993, but an exquisitely curated set would be worth paying for.
- nitrogen 13y agoIf the games were in the public domain, a devoted group of fans could produce an exquisitely curated set for free.
- MartinCron 13y agoOr both! Wouldn't that be great? Sigh, perpetual copyright...
- alanctgardner2 13y agoI'd just like to comment, because this comment hasn't attracted any replies yet, and it is: a) moronic b) completely tangental to the point under discussion The list of "things that people could do" is quite long. You, for example, could go live in a hole far, far away where there is no internet. To qualify for this list, things do not have to be: profitable, rational or feasible. However, when a company like Microsoft creates a product, they consider all of those things, likely in that order. Thus when you propose that "a thing Microsoft could do" is to find every game created within every calendar year, then, at great expense, replicate the antiquated equipment on which that software ran, then market and sell it very cheaply despite the costs of research, licensing and quality assurance, I think that is a thing which Microsoft is very unlikely to do. I don't think it would be a very clever thing for Microsoft to do, nor would it be good for gamers, because after the inaugural release of a million games from 1993 nobody cares about Microsoft would cease to exist as a commercial entity, having wasted all of it's resources on this terrible, terrible idea. On the other hand, why were you even compelled to write this? The most imaginative, creative scenario you could imagine was that if software copyrights expired very quickly, you would like to pay someone for that software? Which is totally already a thing you can do, and the proceeds (in reality) would go to the creator of the software? In conclusion, the internet has broken me. I have no more will to live, and I can only hope in the distant future a giant, faceless corporation will populate different planets with clones of all the people born in each year, so that my clone can go and live happily on the planet 1991 forever. Hopefully your clone will not be present.
- jrs99 13y agoseriously though, I'm not as bright as most people. Random genetics.
- MartinCron 13y agoPeople have bad ideas all the time. You don't need to be so intentionally cruel and insulting tearing this one up.
- nitrogen 13y agoIgnoring the venom in your comment, maybe the parent commenter is younger and unfamiliar with the infamous and evil Microsoft of the 1990s, and thus could be educated rather than belittled. See https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoThey already made that, it's called an emulator.