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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Duffett who wrote (55966)	6/11/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Even if you incorporate the drive along with the CD you open up the whole piracy issue. Hey they could have their own "Nomai" thorn in their side then. Anyway, that is why Nintendo chose a proprietary format and so will Sony, if the ever do go in that direction.<< Uh, excuse me, but the CD-Rom format that Sony uses for Playstation isn't exactly a proprietary format. Sony piracy is already happening, and HiFi will do little to either help or hurt it. The point of using a floppy media with a game system isn't to replace the CD-Rom. It is to enhance it. Plans at Nintendo are to be able to deliver the games on their carts, and for the 64MB floppy to be used to personally modify the games to your tastes, like being able to stick your own face onto game characters, or create your own levels of play. HiFi would give Sony even more space to work with this concept, 200MB vs. 64MB. Some early plans have been made by Nintendo game developers to deliver games only on the 64MB drive. But this is still just specualtion. Sony games would still be delivered on CD-Rom (pennies apiece to manufacture for 650MB of space), and a game modifying toolkit would be delivered on HiFi. This is currently the plan at Nintendo. Sony can't be too far behind.