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If that’s the whole of their “non-response”, then it’s truly dire. As stated above, those workshops sound like a way of blaming women for this.

Yeah if you want a physical copy of Soul Hackers it’ll make your wallet hurt.

There's 688 Attack Sub on the Mega Drive. It's not a bad title considering what it is and the platform it's on.

I’ve just got the 8th gym badge on Pokemon Crystal. Time to do some serious level grinding.

Damn, this is escalating.

11 hours ago, SeanR said:

 

the only fist of the north star game I played was the fighting mania arcade cabinet with the six punchpads

They had one of those Fighting Mania's in the Namco Station in the Trafford Centre years ago. The Atomiswave game is a beautiful 1v1 fighter by Arc System Works. Highly recommend it if you can find a way to play it. The Atomiswave cart is pretty expensive now.

Some lovely games on the Atomiswave. Hokuto no Ken has a pretty much permanent spot in one of my arcade cabs. 

Depends what else you want to use on it. Very few boards use 5 buttons natively from the JAMMA connector, most use a kick harness. It’s only if you wanted to use something like a Pandora’s box. Even then you can make a harness for it.

How long is the game? I’ve never played it to the end. This thread is making me want to dig it out and give it a go.

20 minutes ago, StoooTube said:

I quite fancy getting the Saturn version (again, I think i sold my PAL version for £20-£30 back in the day) but I imagine the JPN version is full of text I won’t understand? I guess if I’m not interested in the story that won’t really matter...

From memory I think you do have to make path decisions like the Capcom CPS2 D&D games which would be helpful to read.

Definitely worth £3.39, probably not worth the ~£100 it’d cost on the Saturn.

1 minute ago, DukeOfEarlsfield said:

 

True. But you still have to get approval from Sony or Nintendo. And you still have to pay for that approval and give them a cut of those sales.

 

You’re still restricted by their eco systems, they still hold a monopoly on their platforms. It’s hardly dissimilar.

The alternative methods of redemption do however block the console manufacturers from truly taking the piss on their platforms though.

11 minutes ago, Paulando said:

These are also the platform holders who are doing their absolute best to kill of physical sales once and for all. Tempting buyers with a cheaper, all-digital console, you say?

Regardless of their future intentions, the point was, right now I can buy a PS4 game from either PSN or Amazon, I have a choice. Even tiny devs have more choice than ever to put their products on disc via all these small print run companies.

2 hours ago, DukeOfEarlsfield said:

Agree with your post, but I don’t think anybody is disputing this part, at least not the way you’ve worded it.

 

But the way “monopoly” has been used has often been unclear and in one case has even been compared to the MS Internet Explorer case. Apple don’t have a monopoly over internet connected mobile phones in the same way that MS had an effective monopoly over internet connected PC’s. I think that’s where the disagreement has been.

 

So yes, Apple have a monopoly over their own eco-system, just like Sony and Nintendo do.

Not exactly the same for Sony or Nintendo though, you can go to a store and buy games there. Developers have the option of a physical product for those platforms, that doesn’t exist with Apple.

7 minutes ago, ulala said:

 

mr exception, meet miss rule 

Haha yeah I know.

As to your other post, yeah, they basically seem non-viable to sellers over here. There's a guy on the UKVAC forum who's basically started bringing them over himself to sell in fairly small quantities.

I've found space for 5 full sized arcade cabs in my house 

It won't remove PS Store or Nintendo Store etc. It'll just mean there can be competition on there. Whether that competition surfaces is another thing. The iOS market must be bigger than all three main console store fronts combined.

7 minutes ago, Stanley said:

Of course they’ll use words like that, they’re not going to go in weak, makes no odds until a ruling. 

Well yeah.... also doesn't mean it's not true.

5 minutes ago, Gotters said:

 

or tens of millions of dollars to reduce the hundreds of millions of dollars they pay in commission, they may not give a stuff about the monopoly aspect.

They almost certainly don't care, but they'll use it against Apple to get their way.

2 minutes ago, Disgraced Toblerone said:

 

We'll see indeed if it's an abuse of a dominant position. I'd gladly bet my remaining bollock it's not. But we'll never know, they will get an off court agreement.

 

But it's not a monopoly. 

 

Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but in legal matters, words are important. 

We'll have to agree to disagree then. I think it is a monopoly, and that word is used heavily throughout the court documents we've seen, so Epic and their lawyers seem to think it is as well.

9 minutes ago, Disgraced Toblerone said:

 

By your logic every single manufacturer is a monopoly. 

 

And MS was fined for basically forcing people to use Explorer on their OS, an OS which was effectively the only one in town, basically. And it was not deemed a monopoly, but an abuse of a dominant position. Not quite the same.

Yea, if they operate an exclusive store front on their hugely popular platform then it is. Epic Games agrees with me and is willing to spend potentially tens of millions of dollars to prove it.

1 minute ago, Disgraced Toblerone said:

 

I'm no fan of Apple's practices, but in no way it could be descibed as a monopoly.

I disagree, MS lost the whole Internet Explorer thing when others were available. If you have an Apple phone, then you have 1 option for purchases without invalidating your phone warranty. I realise you can buy other phones, it's down to how the judge will define monopoly in this case.

2 minutes ago, footle said:

How many people are playing it on iPhone or iPad?

 

and yes, they were clearly expecting to go straight to court.

Not sure how many have stuck, but over 100m downloads in the first 5 months apparently.

The gloves are off then. Interested to see how this goes.

Mine was Sonic the Hedhehog and Mega Games 1 on the Mega Drive. What a wonderful Christmas that was.