Comment Sony fears for the future... (Score 1) 160
The reason sony doesn't want to see this emu released has nothing to do with the immediate economic impact on playstation sales.
The model that sony/nintendo/sega work under demands that the system be as closed as possible...
The programming tools have to be bought from them.
The distribution has to be handled through them.
Anything that threatens this model by opening up the distribution of games or the ability for non-licencees to develop games will get lawyers thrown at it.
They don't care if a few hackers throw some freeware project together... that's not a mass market threat... Connectix's product is. It could set a precident that sony doesn't want to deal with...
PS. Those who counter that this practice is evil... ask yourself why you can buy a console cabable of generating near-pc quality graphics for less then a good video card...
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OG
The model that sony/nintendo/sega work under demands that the system be as closed as possible...
The programming tools have to be bought from them.
The distribution has to be handled through them.
Anything that threatens this model by opening up the distribution of games or the ability for non-licencees to develop games will get lawyers thrown at it.
They don't care if a few hackers throw some freeware project together... that's not a mass market threat... Connectix's product is. It could set a precident that sony doesn't want to deal with...
PS. Those who counter that this practice is evil... ask yourself why you can buy a console cabable of generating near-pc quality graphics for less then a good video card...
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OG
