Why a digital distribution console is bound to fail.

[Wiintendo]

scottie said:

Wiinentdo, I mean purely downloadable games - no way to purchase from retail

 

 wait two console gens.

 

 relatedly,

newspapers are disappearing across the country, everyone's going digital.  free is better.

television viewership is declining year after year, everyone's going digital.  free is better. 

"DVD Sales Are Way Down, and High-Def Is Slow to the Rescue" -
http://forums.gametrailers.com/thread/511521?id=511521 (last post)

free is better.

"With more free TV shows online, more viewers decide to drop cable" -
http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/1033825.html

free is better.

 

......the music industry.......    

free is better.

 

 

 

Digital distribution is the here and now already; and it's huge, I heard Steam has twice the amount of users as XBoxLive.

Browser Games/ Cloud Computing (online storage and streaming of contenet, sans big downloads, or any downloads in some cases) is the here and now already, only, in the future it'll be much more used and more well-known. 

 

Expect the free services (in most cases, especially with exceptional content monetized) to pull ahead of the pay services...because

 

 free is better.

 

 

 

More popular games coming to a browser near you

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10171176-62.html

Game reshaped to run in a browser, with help from broadband...

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Quake-Live-400MB-And-A-Dream-101063?nocomment=1

InstantAction makes browser a console

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/02/instantaction/

 

 

 

also check out,

The Great Disruption

http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/the-great-disruption/

 

newspapers may be going, but you still have to pay for toliet paper - the essentials will still make money.

 

 

 

 meaning it only goes so far to say, but I like to take it as far as possible,

 

because the best things in life are free;

FREE IS BETTER!