People these days seem all too eager to discard emulation in favor of re-releases on handhelds or download services like Wii Virtual Console or X-box Live Arcade. Sure, the current trend towards "legit retro-gaming" seems convenient, but emulation is by no means obsolete.
To most people, emulation is old news. They dismissively recall their first days on the Internet, at first being being shocked and in disbelief at the new-found ability to download and play virtually any old console or arcade game on our computer for free, then obsessively downloading any and all games they could think of, building up a titanic library of ROMs which they would only ever play once for 2 minutes each and then move on to the next one. Eventually their emulators lay in disuse in the bowels of our dusty hard-drives when we got tired of playing on a keyboard, or just plain got tired of playing old, last-gen games.
So now that new-gen systems are introducing 100% legal ways to retro-game (XBLA, Wii VC) without carting an NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, etc every where you go, it sometimes looks like the last nail in emulation's coffin. However, emulation is still the most convenient way to play classic games.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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