Its alot of download bandwidth. Some countries charge per Mb so on a 50$ au. account i only get 12 Gigs per month. No fukn way will i use that much bandwidth to download one game.
If you can rent and copy them yourself sure its an option but blank media costs and the lack of available BR burners are the nail in the coffin.
I assume like all tech unlocking the PS3 has already been done but regardless its a pretty obvious statement to make. There just arn't that many BR players out there.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
