Releasing more games with user generated content on formats like Nintendo DS could help prevent piracy, according to Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada.
Speaking in his keynote talk at the Montreal Game Summit today, Wada said that piracy on formats such as the original PlayStation occurred because its CD-ROM discs only contained fixed data created by the game developers.
"CDs only contained the data saved by the proucers - this created piracy."
"If the data contains information from the user it will stop piracy - data which has been saved by the customers that has become important to them."
"The value lies in what is indispensable." - Yoichi Wada
With recent experiments done with the Nintendo DS in Japan and the release of the new Dragon Quest have shown that users like to share data wirelessly - including information, images, maps and game content.
Personalised gaming makes them more reluctant to copy, pirate or sell on their games. or so Yoichi Wada thinks.
Source:
develop-online.net
16/11/09, 17:32
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