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Mame - Good or Bad for the Arcade Biz ?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: tommy on February 20, 2005, 04:29:19 pm ---How can mame not hurt real arcade games when they copy all the games this is my last post on this subject
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Because it doesn't copy ALL the games. Only the ones that aren;t making money in the arcade industry. therefore it can't hurt the industry. Plus not enough people use mame to hurt the industry, partly because it isn't emulating the latest and greatest. Now go to emulator site that does, there are plenty of those. But mame isn't one.
krick:
--- Quote from: tommy on February 20, 2005, 03:58:00 pm ---What about streetfighter
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the3eyedblindman:
I loved Mortal Kombat 4...
Howard_Casto:
No that's not it.... with the exception of mk4 (which btw went gold in the arcades, so it was very much a success)
console sequels of mk games have been quite good and have outsold even the wildly popular mk2 in sales.
As a matter of fact, the only game that didn't see success in the arcades was mk3 (not umk3) the very game you a praising.
This isn't about opinions btw... it's about sales numbers.
The reason midway decided to quit producing the games in the arcades is becuase it's less cost-effective to do so. Midway would have had to design a brand new arcade system to handle the mkda graphics engine. This costs a ton of r&d money. And in a day when maybe one fighting game a year (if they are lucky) breaks even in the arcade industry.. it's much simpler and profit oriented to make a game for the consoles, which almost guarantee that you break even as long as the game is playable.
So basically.... sony, mcrosoft and nintendo killed the arcades with their cheap... graphically impressive consoles, and their reluctance to create a arcade system based on their hardware.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: tommy on February 20, 2005, 04:19:32 pm ---Thats exactly my point (point) money is to be made elsewhere because its so easily coped
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you cannot honestly say that the only reason people prefer consoles is because it can be copied. That is a very pessimistic and skewed view of reality.
The arcades are dying because people don't want to go to them anymore. They'd rather play their games at home than spend $1 or more on one round of gameplay. It has nothing (or very little) to do with ease of copying.
People don't NOT go to arcades because they can play them on MAME... thats a silly point of view. Perhaps that is what you do? But as SirP said, you can't get 90% of what is currently in arcades in MAME.