atari2600land's Blog

I'm completely with you. I've never played Angry Birds, and our newest console is the N64. My kids have never broken an N64 cartridge... and if they ever did somehow, it'd only be a $3-$10 loss, not a $20+ loss.

Material goods are making way for virtual goods that are LICENSED not owned by you. You're a dinosaur for caring about such things. Fortunately we're all brontosaurs and raptors here so I agree with you 100 percent!

My dad plays Angry Birds on his Mac, and I know it's available for the PC, so it's entirely possible it'll show up on other platforms.

I just finished 16 hours of AB nonstop.

If you don't play AB you are behind the times and pretty much a mis-fit.

Angry Birds is available to play for free via chrome.angrybirds.com and Google Plus games.

 

I have downloaded games on my PS3, but not on my 3DS or Wii. To a certain extent it's just a different delivery mechanism (although you have to be aware of your ISP's download limits). OTOH, I prefer to buy a Blu-Ray than to download movies.

 

Most DVD players will return to the last scene viewed. Unfortunately, Blu-Ray doesn't, but I think that's because there's executable code in addition to the video.

 

Nintendo stayed with carts through the N64 because they handled the manufacturing and would make profit on each cart made, not just sold. Going with disc based systems dramatically lowered the manufacturing cost because they leveraged existing CD (and later DVD) manufacturing. CD also could store 700MB of data, 10 times the size of the largest (and most expensive) cartridges. The reason DS cartridges are smaller is because flash memory (and other chip technologies) has pushed the density way up. And I don't know about carts being more reliable - I often have to reseat my N64 carts a couple of times before they will start.

 

But you are correct there is the danger with downloaded content that it might be lost, either deleted or because it requires a back-end server which no longer exists. But this is why I buy movies on Blu-Ray - I'm far more likely to want to watch it again many years in the future than play through Angry Birds.

 

I'm divided on music. In general, I'll buy a CD if there's enough songs on it. But I remember the times where I bought an album for the single and there wasn't anything else worth listening to.

Strange, my old DVD player remembered where I was the last time the disc was in.

 

While I can understand your argument, I disagree. I'm DL only for books, music and movies now, and I can't wait until I never have to buy a plastic disk again.

 

Shelf space is reserved for classic games only now!