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Is it time for Microsoft to start pushing Digital Distribution more?

Yes, hard drives are getting larger. 18 32.14%
 
No, internet is still not ready for it. 19 33.93%
 
Yes, other reasons (discuss). 7 12.50%
 
No, other reasons (discuss). 12 21.43%
 
Total:56
Ldn.se on 08 May 2010
nightsurge said:
kitler53 said:
nightsurge said:
kitler53 said:
there are a ton of reasons the psp go fails so hard but digital only is probably the biggest. being able to the connect to the internet, internet speeds, and peoples just general willingness to buy things online all seem to be pretty significant barriers today. and psp games are an order of magnitude smaller in size to boot.

exploring digital outlets isn't a bad idea but i don't think the download-only is a viable market for large budget games atm.

This is a good point.  I am not suggesting that they move to DD only for all games, but rather only for their top budget, largest games that need that extra space.  Some games are fine as they are and can fit well into the current 6.8GB size limit.  I just feel that for their biggest exclusives to push the performance barrier they need this increase in data size.

yeah but the biggest exclusives that push performance and need the extra space is just another way to say expensive development cycle.  there is not way to validate this but i'd put money down that if halo:reach was released as digital only it would sell at least a couple million less units than as a disc release.

no, if the game needs the extra space i think a better tact would be to sell it physically on two discs and have a install like forza did.  installs seem to be increasinly fairly common this gen and apparently accepted well enough by the market.

If they want to enable us to install all the discs to a game (like FF13 for instance) and then only have to use the first disc to play the full game, I would be more than happy for them to use this alternative.

I think you do know that there are a lot of people who own the 360 arcade without hard drive. Installs on xbox will always be optional. They will need to introduce a new format or go for blu ray. DD is good for arcade games only.