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NullAshton said:
Dogscoff, actually it's very easy to code for the console, about as easy as coding for the computer. They use an emulator to test the code first, then they put it on a CD or something to try it on the real thing once they're almost done. Saves on having to transport it over all the time.
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Yes, but who are "they"?
The software and/or hardware tools to transfer the code from a PC to, say, an Xbox are not widely (or legally, probably) available to the public. You have to be an authorised developer. And to be an authorised developer, you need to have the l33t coding s|<1llZ. And to get the skills you have to have experience of coding, and where do you get the experience?
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I think what we need to worry about, is people prefering free games over games you have to pay for.
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Well, they just have to make paid games better than free games then don't they?
The truth is, most paid games are built on the backs of freeware/shareware games anyway. The graphics might be shinier and the cutscenes funkier, but at heart Halo is just Doom, Final Fantasy is just Rogue and Everquest is just one of those old MUDs you saw the geek hardcore playing in the labs at uni. Occasionally you get true innovation in the commercial market (think Populous or lemmings) but for the most part they are just rehashing the same tired old crap again and again, wrapping it up in ever glitzier layers of graphics to convince us that it's actually something new.