804 - 04/24/22 Bobby Blackwolf Show - Sony Ad Delivery Service, Apple Removing Old Games
- Happy Anniversary to us at the Voice of Geeks Network! We soft launched as an internet radio station in April of 2012.
- In response to Microsoft, Sony has started looking into creating an ad delivery service for free-to-play titles. Right now, it's not as nefarious as it might wind up being.
- Apple has informed iOS developers that they will remove their games from the App Store if they don't update their finished games once every two years.
- We talk about old podcasts and the old Friday Night Gaming video podcast I did for two years, where the audio archives are still available.
- Then we talk to Rob about PAX East and other events finally returning.
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DarkTetsuya
5/5/2022 12:32 PM
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Seems like Nintendo has never been all that great at preserving their older games, (I guess outside of their first-party stiuff) unlike a lot of the 3rd parties.
Just look at Capcom, they've always been good at reviving their older games (sometimes too good, as a few of them have been repeated in recent collections)
Or Konami, much as we like to dog on them for their business decisions in recent years, at least they do an okay job keeping their retro stuff in the limelight, especially with stuff like the TMNT collection. (although I do wish they'd find a way to re-release the Rebirth trilogy Contra, Gradius, Castlevania on more modern hardware)
I'm curious to see what Sony's new PS+ tier is going to look like, though.
I guess overall I just worry about our gaming history not being preserved properly. (Especially with stories like what Apple was doing this week, although I do get it, to an extent.) definitely a huge fan of what folks like the VGHF are doing.