Sony's Solution: Sell A Cripple Version of the Playstation 3?

[NJ5]

czecherychestnut said:

NJ5 said:

Reading this thread doesn't help my faith in humanity. Why are so many people assuming that Sony wouldn't put PS3 titles up for download if they did this, perhaps even the old ones?

Sure, there are some things to criticize regarding this idea, but let's keep this real. When you get to an incredible conclusion, it often helps to examine your assumptions.

 

Where your idea enters the realm of fail is the assumption that 1) people will tolerate downloading 5 - 20Gb games, and 2) if the idea is to sell many more PS3's, but yet limit the usefulness of said PS3's to areas of the world with lots of very fast, very cheap internet, then clearly that won't achieve the intended goal.

It'd be like Peugeot designing a super cheap car for the Indian market, that can only run on Johnny Walker Blue label. People bitch about 10 min installs on the PS3, yet suddenly downloading a game for 3 - 4 hours is a workable solution?

I didn't say many people would necessarily want to do that. In fact I said this idea is not very good (though for another reason, the price of a big HD).