I like firewire. It sounds very nifty. I want to see it be the standard.
One doesn't have to dig very deep into the history of technological standards to see that cheap/mediocre/open standards win over expensive/excellent/closed standards every time.
That's why this scares me, and I think most of the other posters critical of this licensing scheme.
Fortunately, I don't see anything even close to firewire out there, so maybe it will succeed in spite of this...
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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I like firewire. It sounds very nifty. I want to see it be the standard.
One doesn't have to dig very deep into the history of technological standards to see that cheap/mediocre/open standards win over expensive/excellent/closed standards every time.
That's why this scares me, and I think most of the other posters critical of this licensing scheme.
Fortunately, I don't see anything even close to firewire out there, so maybe it will succeed in spite of this...
apple paladins need to chill.
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OG
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