That would be great if companies like Activision, Data East, Natsume, Konami, and Capcom let these websites be involved in bringing these games back to life. Millions of people would gladly repay for these timeless classics especially if they had online connectivity, leaderboards, and a nice proper front-end. There's a whole market that could be brought back to life through co-operation.
Game companies like Konami and Capcom will never let someone else manage their libraries. Now, I could see them eventually offering their own "digital stores" at some point. The problem with those is adoption and support. Without both of those factors most digital stores will fail horribly.
This is part of the reason I believe "retro gaming" is not as big as people claim it is. I have been on both sides of the equation since 2009 (as a gamer and as a member of the media, even working with game developers and publishers). The market is not as big as many think otherwise why haven't we see companies like Capcom release more cartridges for the SNES?
Sure, Capcom are working with companies to release special editions of Mega Man X and Street Fighter II but why not themselves? Why not more NEW games for these platforms?
Because retro gaming is simply not that big. There is not enough money for someone like Capcom to bother. There may be enough money for someone else to see value in licensing the games and doing the rest of the work themselves and letting someone like Capcom verify it is good enough.
Just look at Sega. They don't even bother updating their classics for re-release. Not even an HD patch (considering they are using emulators) and Nintendo has been guilty of this as well - their big remake release being on the SNES with Super Mario All-Stars, since then they have simply gone for straight emulator plus ROM releases.
I would love to see more companies go the route of Sega. Where fans are allowed to edit, hack, etc classics and even release those patches through Steam for others to play. That is great. Sega has even hired fans that made homage games to work on official releases.
Sadly, at this point, Sega (with all their faults) is the best we have to pick from and that is really sad.
Manage their digital libraries no. Help streamline the emulation process in a healthy direction so that paid games can be re-released properly on Switch, PS4, and Steam... yes. I've bought a lot of re-releases that I reviewed from Arcade Archives to Digital Eclipses work. Disney Afternoon Collection was a great example of what should be done with these games. Suing these companies out of existence instead of hiring some people to streamline these games to back into market would kill opportunities for productive people at the same time failing to tame piracy and lead to more lazy unproductive people getting free stuff more easily.
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That would be great if companies like Activision, Data East, Natsume, Konami, and Capcom let these websites be involved in bringing these games back to life. Millions of people would gladly repay for these timeless classics especially if they had online connectivity, leaderboards, and a nice proper front-end. There's a whole market that could be brought back to life through co-operation.
Game companies like Konami and Capcom will never let someone else manage their libraries. Now, I could see them eventually offering their own "digital stores" at some point. The problem with those is adoption and support. Without both of those factors most digital stores will fail horribly.
This is part of the reason I believe "retro gaming" is not as big as people claim it is. I have been on both sides of the equation since 2009 (as a gamer and as a member of the media, even working with game developers and publishers). The market is not as big as many think otherwise why haven't we see companies like Capcom release more cartridges for the SNES?
Sure, Capcom are working with companies to release special editions of Mega Man X and Street Fighter II but why not themselves? Why not more NEW games for these platforms?
Because retro gaming is simply not that big. There is not enough money for someone like Capcom to bother. There may be enough money for someone else to see value in licensing the games and doing the rest of the work themselves and letting someone like Capcom verify it is good enough.
Just look at Sega. They don't even bother updating their classics for re-release. Not even an HD patch (considering they are using emulators) and Nintendo has been guilty of this as well - their big remake release being on the SNES with Super Mario All-Stars, since then they have simply gone for straight emulator plus ROM releases.
I would love to see more companies go the route of Sega. Where fans are allowed to edit, hack, etc classics and even release those patches through Steam for others to play. That is great. Sega has even hired fans that made homage games to work on official releases.
Sadly, at this point, Sega (with all their faults) is the best we have to pick from and that is really sad.
Manage their digital libraries no. Help streamline the emulation process in a healthy direction so that paid games can be re-released properly on Switch, PS4, and Steam... yes. I've bought a lot of re-releases that I reviewed from Arcade Archives to Digital Eclipses work. Disney Afternoon Collection was a great example of what should be done with these games. Suing these companies out of existence instead of hiring some people to streamline these games to back into market would kill opportunities for productive people at the same time failing to tame piracy and lead to more lazy unproductive people getting free stuff more easily.