RealArcade - Game Site On Wheels, Continued

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It's like Amazon in a Window, but with games. I can see the logic behind it. I can also see that it ain't going to make a lot of hard-core gamers happy, and casual gamers, like me, aren't worth the marketing effort, please. If I am going to buy something, I'd rather I got the information from one the cool, messy game sites, and not Real. Also, if I can avoid buying a title, and not having someone push it down my throat, I am more than happy. As for hard-core gamers, they are not that desperate.

RealArcade would make a great tool for sales of any digital media content. I am not convinced about games, but with limited distribution channels, Real may just pull it off because, there are so few alternatives.

Okay so let me put down some full disclosure here. I like watching movie previews on the Web. It's about the closest I come to a movie theater these days. There are quite a few places to find trailers, and most of them, happily, are in QuickTime format. Which means I get pretty good quality. Whenever I have had to use Real or, heaven forbid, Windows Media Player, I get stuck with whole streaming thing and it just looks awful, and it rarely works smoothly, and so on. So, I am a little down on Real. I have no idea how they make money, but thank goodness for MPEG4. I think most of you are going to do a better job at getting video on the Web than the stuff that I see. So, there is hope for streaming video, and QuickTime is still the quality leader, and I shouldn't be down on Real, but there you have it.

Anyhow, you can catch more of RealArcade at this link , for yourselves.

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