Star Wars Battlefront - Striving For Galactic Conquest?

Thanks to LucasArts for their press release officially announcing more information on Star Wars Battlefront, the PS2/Xbox/PC multiplayer action title featuring "the most memorable Star Wars battles set in over 15 environments across 10 diverse planets, including Hoth, Geonosis, Yavin, Tatooine and Naboo." However, a GameSpy preview adds further detail to the previously revealed information regarding this Battlefield 1942-like online-orientated title, including "the 'metagame' driving Star Wars Battlefront. Tentatively called 'Galactic Conquest,' this mode will throw players into a full-scale war. Once you capture every checkpoint on a planet and defeat the enemy's forces utterly, you'll control that planet."

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[Kethinov]

Companies which are both in the hardware AND software business are inherently frustrating to the consumer. A person who runs x86 hardware and wants to buy MacOSX cannot unless he buys an entirely new computer. A person running a PS2 who wants to buy Metroid Prime cannot unless he buys a Gamecube.

By being the sole manufacturer of your game AND your platform to which no ports exist, you are essentially eliminating all competition, and that sounds very similar to a monopoly. Platform freedom should be mandatory.

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[Kethinov]

I'm not calling Nintendo a monopoly, I used that example to explain that by making their own hardware and not porting their games to anything else, they are restricting and frustrating their customers. Nintendo should port their games to AT LEAST the PC. The XBOX and PS2 wouldn't hurt as well.

Instead they remain a niche. If they ported their games they'd have a much more huge fanbase. I myself, a rabid nintendo fan, boycott their products on the sole basis that there are no pc ports and there are no successful emulators. I would be a paying gamecube customer if I could play it on my pc. They have lost significant business with this decision.

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[Kethinov]

Perhaps you're not taking the time to actually read what I write, which I suppose makes this reply I'm composing entirely pointless if you're not reading it, but here goes.

First off, in my very first post I talked about how porting games to all platforms generates a larger fanbase which is easily inferred as more profit. An economic point. Further explained in subsequent replies.

Secondly, I brought up the monopoly comparison to show that developing for only one platform is just as limiting ot the consumer as cornering the market, and I have further clarified that already, read the whole damn thread.

Finally, the fact that you accuse me of talking out of my ass is ironic seeing as how you can't even read and comprehend before you make your inflamatory comments with inaccurate accusations and assumptions.