Will the patches themselves even be available, though? They might count as “online content” since you have to download them...

I guess I should have been clearer. I could have sworn that I’d seen things with their games on them before the Genesis Flashback thing (that didn’t come out until after the NES Classic), but I could be remembering incorrectly.

Didn’t Sega already have things like this before Nintendo ever did? I’ve definitely seen consoles with built-in games that included some of the Sonic games at stores before.

I was hoping someone would have posted this. :)

If that paragraph means what you seem to be implying it does, then the Article would be completely pointless. It would do absolutely nothing. And I highly doubt that’s the case.

Er...elaborate?

The process would probably take over 15 minutes, but I could concede that it would be possible to set up a compulsory licensing system along the lines of the one for music covers. Make a law that sets some small specified fee that, if paid, means the company has to allow you to stream a game and can’t do anything…

“This forces larger sites to actually develop better procedures.”

Sure, it theoretically protects parody works and so on, but that’s irrelevant when any method used to block actual infringing uses will inevitably pick up things like parody works, too. And there’s zero reason why they would replace the algorithms with human moderators. The amount of content is way too high for that…

Making online businesses responsible for their users isn’t even remotely in the same ballpark as any similar law applying to physical businesses. The level of user interactivity and the sheer number of users are exponentially higher.

Yeah, even the author of this article doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo considering they’re still linking to the original story saying he was involved (which was never updated with the correction), and then saying nothing but “maybe Michael Bay’s involvement has been overstated” (and only because Platinum Dunes’s…

He has nothing to do with this movie. It was a weird rumor that was never true but took a long time to get debunked for some reason.

“Also, there’s no sign of Platinum Dunes in this trailer, so maybe Michael Bay’s involvement has been overstated.”

If this article is apparently getting enough traffic to get promoted again, shouldn’t it get updated with the correction that Michael Bay actually has nothing to do with it after all (and apparently never did)?

“compressed (low bitrate) 1080p is unwatchable in 2019"

Even then, it’s not a bad deal. You get both Crunchyroll and HIDIVE, along with select other anime that’s available directly through VRV itself.

I find it hard to believe that they have 90 percent of the world’s anime content. There are a massive amount of shows that have never gotten any kind of official translation at all, let alone be put on Crunchyroll.

True, and that point also makes me think the end goal of everything here could be to have literally all private information in the cloud eventually. Like computers built to have no storage space beyond that necessary for the operating system (and no way to add more), and all you can do is connect to their server and…

If this takes over, every game will be only licensed to you for a period of time rather than being owned by you (and subject to disappearing at any time, like P.T. but worse), you’ll be beholden to whatever price the company wants to charge as opposed to being able to buy used copies or having competition from…

Speaking of Netflix, if this DOES work out, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Netflix itself expands into the same market eventually. Though I suppose the biggest issue for them would be that they’d have to have the ability to support running a massive amount of games at once, which would probably take a lot more…