8th January 2004, 7:03 PM
Nintendo didn't do this iQue thing before though, not in Japan either, well not exactly this. Well, they had Famicom Disk System disks, but those were just rewritable disks and they were permanent. Just as many of those games were sold pre-copied onto the disk (same as just buying a game) as were bought in a store by just rewriting the diskette. I REALLY would have loved to be in Japan at the time. Going down to the local convenience store to get the new games they just put in the machine all for about 500 yen, can anyone NOT see the sheer naustalgia factor that could enduce years later?
I'd actually LIKE to see that sort of thing done. The idea of a rewritable media so one can easily just get software dumped into it whenever they want would be great, especially for that one hard to find game that's sold out everywhere, what with information not being in limited quanteties and all :D. Buy a hard copy, or buy a blank disk and write your game to it, or decide you hated that game you bought and write a new one in place of it. Seems good to me.
I'd actually LIKE to see that sort of thing done. The idea of a rewritable media so one can easily just get software dumped into it whenever they want would be great, especially for that one hard to find game that's sold out everywhere, what with information not being in limited quanteties and all :D. Buy a hard copy, or buy a blank disk and write your game to it, or decide you hated that game you bought and write a new one in place of it. Seems good to me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)