@Mike: I didn't know that each individual GBA game had a serial number that was unique to the game cartridge.
I'm personally thinking that it will be less of registering your cartridge/DS and more of just downloading games straight to the device. And let me just add that THANK GOD that is happening. I'm sick of games on physical media. Flash is so cheap now, that we should be downloading everything and not buying it.
Think about it: No lines at the store, no pre-ordering, no outages of games that are insanely popular... The only downside to this is that all the used-game stores of the world would be hit hard. I think half the buisness they do is trade-ins on old games.
There would still be PS3/360/Wii/PS2/etc to trade in, but it was my thinking that it was mostly the portable consoles, in which the games are shorter and easier to complete, that trade-in was more profitable.
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@Mike: I didn't know that each individual GBA game had a serial number that was unique to the game cartridge.
I'm personally thinking that it will be less of registering your cartridge/DS and more of just downloading games straight to the device. And let me just add that THANK GOD that is happening. I'm sick of games on physical media. Flash is so cheap now, that we should be downloading everything and not buying it.
Think about it: No lines at the store, no pre-ordering, no outages of games that are insanely popular... The only downside to this is that all the used-game stores of the world would be hit hard. I think half the buisness they do is trade-ins on old games.
There would still be PS3/360/Wii/PS2/etc to trade in, but it was my thinking that it was mostly the portable consoles, in which the games are shorter and easier to complete, that trade-in was more profitable.
I Could Be Wrong(TM) though.