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Rogerdodger | Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 2:56AM 
As a lot of you know iPlayWinner is huge fans of the arcade scene. Adam Martin over at ESFIWorld.com wrote up a article involving how the arcade scene will be looking into digital distribution.
This will have many effects on how the arcades will operate. Some may say this could be a great thing to happen to arcades since Digital Distribution has been very successful with the PC and Consoles.
"Secondly, arcade owners can get the games they want without having to risk tens of thousands of dollars on games that may or may not make profit. To illustrate the risk involved, a Tilt arcade operator in Bellingham, WA purchased a Street Fighter 4 board just weeks before Super Street Fighter 4 was released. This completely invalidated a $3,000 investment and the cabinet is almost completely unused. Under a shared profit model in which arcade operators simply pay a per-use fee, Nesica will be much less devastating to smaller arcades; large companies tend to take too much of a small arcade's profits to be viable.'"
Check out the article HERE
How do you think this will effect the arcade scene in the US?
