Korgscrew
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Posted: Oct. 15 2001, 19:21 |
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There is still talk of CDs as well...Music VR maybe will or maybe won't be released on a CD ROM to somehow accompany the music CD.
The idea of releasing on the net is to push things forward, be part of a revolution and all the rest of it...
Apple, for example, released its iMac a few years ago with only USB and Ethernet for connectivity. The computer's popularity saw a wave of USB devices coming onto the market (and all in iMac colours). Although the decision seemed a bit extreme at first (as there USB wasn't hugely popular at the time of release), it ended up pushing the market forward...
People with projects like Mike's are probably hoping to do the same - to be at the cutting edge. Unfortunately, due partly to the state of the telecommunications industry in some countries, even the big players going over to net-only releases may not actually bring forward improvements in the internet (i.e. faster and cheaper broadband lines, etc).
Mike isn't a big player either...rather than pushing everything forward, by forcing people to use the internet to obtain his product, he's more likely just to sell less copies, as people won't have the necessary connections to download it.
That said, at least amongst his fans online, there seem to be huge numbers of people who are quite prepared to download mnumerous megabytes to get a bootleg concert recording, album or video, so perhaps those people will be prepared to download Music VR as well...There will be some people online who won't be prepared to (or won't be able to at all for various reasons), and some people who are't online who won't be able to. Those people will either miss out, or just get a bootleg copy on CDR from someone else (sad but true).
Whether, if released on CD ROM and with the same kind of push given to other top games, it would become a big seller is maybe another matter...I suppose we'll have to wait and see what the final version is like before we can pass judgement on that.
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