What happened to the good ol' days?

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#1 timmillah
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I remember back in the day (not too far back, think playstation 1) When they had nearly every game you can imagine on a demo disk. I would think this would be a great way to drive game sales, as well as introduce more gamers to new types of games. Nintendo Power should start including one with their magazine every month, I know that if they did, I would subscribe. The main point is, does anyone else miss "demo disks"?

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#2 thomasflath9000
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totally! i still have all my ps2 ones and they work.

but i don't remember how I got them, lol 

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#3 tomarlyn
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Demo disks were awesome until the ability to just download them came along, which Wii still isn't doing. In the UK we have Official Nintendo Magazine, I might buy it now and again for a good demo disk but I'd use the magazine as toilet paper, (pages and pages of biased brainwash material).
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#4 timmillah
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So you mean there's actually a magazine that has Wii demos?!? Wow. That's shocking, I really wish they'd have one over here. I would pay like... $75/year for a subscription@!
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#5 IronManRhino
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I'd subscribe to 3 years of NP if they came with a demo disc, that'd mean that everyone would stop bellyaching for a demo channel with wii demos too, I still would want the ds demo channel though.
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#6 Battlestar3DVD
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I'd love to see a demo disc esp. with the games I'm not sure I'll like or not.
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#7 timmillah
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I'd love to see a demo disc esp. with the games I'm not sure I'll like or not.Battlestar3DVD
That's the main reason I loved them to being with. I don't understand why everyone is crossing their fingers for a Wii demo channel, because there's nowhere to store the demo's right now, and if I remember correctly I read that Nintendo doesn't plan on releasing a harddrive for Wii (which I think they will, eventually, but in more than a year or so.)
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#8 tomarlyn
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So you mean there's actually a magazine that has Wii demos?!? Wow. That's shocking, I really wish they'd have one over here. I would pay like... $75/year for a subscription@!timmillah

No sorry I minced my words, I mean ''if'' ONM had demo's. 

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#9 tomarlyn
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[QUOTE="Battlestar3DVD"]I'd love to see a demo disc esp. with the games I'm not sure I'll like or not.timmillah
That's the main reason I loved them to being with. I don't understand why everyone is crossing their fingers for a Wii demo channel, because there's nowhere to store the demo's right now, and if I remember correctly I read that Nintendo doesn't plan on releasing a harddrive for Wii (which I think they will, eventually, but in more than a year or so.)

Yeah but Wii demo's wouldn't be that big that they need a hard drive, especially when you consider the kind of games its built for and no High Def resolution. Probably wouldn't be able to hold many but you could always download again.

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#10 timmillah
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oh, alrighty! The thing I like MOST about demo disks was the fact that they were games that weren't even out yet  most of the time, so it gives you a glimpse of what to be excited about for the future! Right now, we're barely getting any NEWS to get excited about, much less a chance to actually play some of the titles!
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#11 timmillah
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[QUOTE="timmillah"][QUOTE="Battlestar3DVD"]I'd love to see a demo disc esp. with the games I'm not sure I'll like or not.tomarlyn
That's the main reason I loved them to being with. I don't understand why everyone is crossing their fingers for a Wii demo channel, because there's nowhere to store the demo's right now, and if I remember correctly I read that Nintendo doesn't plan on releasing a harddrive for Wii (which I think they will, eventually, but in more than a year or so.)

Yeah but Wii demo's wouldn't be that big that they need a hard drive, especially when you consider the kind of games its built for and no High Def resolution. Probably wouldn't be able to hold many but you could always download again.

Well, A full game is what, 4.6GB or so, right? I guess I could see where the games would average about 200-300MB/demo, but by the time you add in game saves, channels, VC games, etc, alot of people wouldn't even have that much room. I can see it being plausible, but it just seems like too much of a stretch for my mind to make. A DS channel seems definitely possible though, and I can actually see that being implemented in the near future.

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#12 swish4three
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(looks at NES) Playstation 1 is back in the day??? Wow I'm old lol
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#13 Xerlaoth
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i single handedly ruined the demo disk practice, by thieving them monthly from the official playstation magazine.  my bad. :(
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#14 timmillah
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(looks at NES) Playstation 1 is back in the day??? Wow I'm old lolswish4three
  Hah, I said not TOO far back in the day, lol. I'm only 19, but I remember NES and SNES very vividly, but if you think about it, PS1 is what, 11 years old now, maybe 12? It's sad that my little cousins don't even know what one is! The were groomed right into ps2's lifecycle, so anything less (dreamcast, n64) is like a foreign language to them!
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(looks at NES) Playstation 1 is back in the day??? Wow I'm old lolswish4three
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#16 judog1
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That's what Nitendo should do with Nintendo Power, it would make it a better magazine.  With the price of games now, it would really be useful.

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#17 Xerlaoth
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That's what Nitendo should do with Nintendo Power, it would make it a better magazine. With the price of games now, it would really be useful.

judog1

I wouldn't want to pay 9 dollars for an issue tho.. and really, i love the magazine

too bad it seems like its getting canned :\ 

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#18 judog1
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I thought demo discs were free though?
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#19 timmillah
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I thought demo discs were free though?judog1
In most cases they are, I remember PSX had one for like, $5 you could get at Walmart or EB Games, but for the most part they're free. I'm just saying, I'd be willing to pay a little more for the magazine if it meant that I would get a demo disk also..
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#20 Sepewrath
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The cost of producing those demo's every month would at best allow them to cut even with the raise it would cause in suscriptions. The best way to go about demos is not disc, that is expensive, making them available for download would be the better decision.
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#21 Guckyy
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What happened to the good ol' days? They died a long time ago.

I still have my ps1 demos.

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#22 timmillah
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Oh, I agree that it would be 100% more cost effective and efficient to offer a downloadable demo, however, there aren't any viable solutions to that problem on the Wii, that's why I'm bringing up the Demo disks. About your point about it cutting even if they include it, I think it could actually put them in profit, due to the income that will be driven by the demos. For example, let's say you make a great game that is in genre A, but little timmy only usually likes to play games in genres B,C, and D, but you include a demo of your Genre A game on the same one as the Genre D game that little Timmy wants to play. Little Timmy will probably get bored with his Genre D demo (because well, it's a demo) so he tries some of the other games on the disk, only to find out that he likes the Genre A game as well, he'll beg mommy for both of them for Christmas, and you know he's a spoiled brat, therefore, get's his two games. I know that's a horrible analogy, but it kind of gets my point across, does it not? I say if the Wii is about bringing everyone together for gaming, than it should include gamers into other genres of gaming (as in me, with Zelda. I never liked Zelda games before, but the motion sensing made it more fun to me.) It just doesn't make sense to me for companies to think inside the box and make kiddy games that everyone can play, when they could do a little outside the box thinking and bring in more revenue by exposing their games to audiences who are normally blind to them. I'm sorry if I'm rambling on and if this doesn't make any sense, but it's the best I can do to try to let people understand what I feel. Chances are, I'm probably completely ignorant in my thinking, but hey, at least I tried.
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#23 timmillah
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What happened to the good ol' days? They died a long time ago.

I still have my ps1 demos.

Guckyy
lmao
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#24 Satanshelper
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Demo disks were awesome until the ability to just download them came along, which Wii still isn't doing. In the UK we have Official Nintendo Magazine, I might buy it now and again for a good demo disk but I'd use the magazine as toilet paper, (pages and pages of biased brainwash material).tomarlyn

Heh, yeah. Every non-film license game gets above 70%, aside from Rampage. 

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