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    Quote Originally Posted by Nz17 View Post
    I hope you don't plan to truly own your games
    To truly own a game you either have to make it yourself or buy the rights to it. What you get when you buy a game is a limited license to play the game. When you buy a physical game you get to own the case, disc, etc... but the game itself is owned by the rights holder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jb143 View Post
    To truly own a game you either have to make it yourself or buy the rights to it. What you get when you buy a game is a limited license to play the game. When you buy a physical game you get to own the case, disc, etc... but the game itself is owned by the rights holder.
    Obviously. I was using hyperbole to illustrate the dichotomy between buying tangible assets and streaming.

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    i kinda get the feeling this is going to be more of a sega system with a google service. Thats my feeling

    Kind of like i get the feeling M$ might throw in the towel on traditional console gaming aswell...

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