I owned a Jaguar, thinking I was ahead of everyone else. I believe the Atari Jaguar was the first console or computer game maker to have an Aliens vs. Predator game. Just like the later namesakes, you could play as the Aliens, Predators and Space Marines. It had a funky control pad with A B C buttons as well as a larger keypad beneath laid out like a telephone keypad that could be covered with plastic inserts that came with each game. AvP had a different insert for each race playable. Nostalgia...ahhhh.
Fighting piracy costs quite a bit of money and yields them next to nothing in the Chinese market. Increasing sales and eating, however unpleasant it must be to the MS Executives, the piracy "losses" is probably an acceptable tradeoff. Also, piracy can be dealt with later when they've been reeled in far enough. Without getting overly anti-MS, it's not enough to dominate one market when there is more unconquered territory that looks so ripe from Redmond.
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I owned a Jaguar, thinking I was ahead of everyone else. I believe the Atari Jaguar was the first console or computer game maker to have an Aliens vs. Predator game. Just like the later namesakes, you could play as the Aliens, Predators and Space Marines. It had a funky control pad with A B C buttons as well as a larger keypad beneath laid out like a telephone keypad that could be covered with plastic inserts that came with each game. AvP had a different insert for each race playable. Nostalgia...ahhhh.
Fighting piracy costs quite a bit of money and yields them next to nothing in the Chinese market. Increasing sales and eating, however unpleasant it must be to the MS Executives, the piracy "losses" is probably an acceptable tradeoff. Also, piracy can be dealt with later when they've been reeled in far enough. Without getting overly anti-MS, it's not enough to dominate one market when there is more unconquered territory that looks so ripe from Redmond.