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bugrimmar on 01 March 2009
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i understand you guys are saying that yeah, the countries that matter have decent connections all around. the future will bring faster connections as well.

let's see..

how long does it take you to download a 500mb movie off a torrent site? short time right?

now imagine, even with your t1 or t2 connections, even with a t7 or t8 connection of the future, how long will it take to download a game that is at least 100 times the size of that?

50gb is blu ray.. example you were downloading metal gear solid 4.. actually kojima wanted it to be bigger.. maybe with your future connection speed it'll be done in a few hours.. but that's just now..

in the future, the games are gonna be much larger than that. you really wanna spend three days downloading a 500gb game? games get bigger faster than internet speeds increase. aside from that, do you really expect every person in america to be equipped with top of the line internet?

also, you really wanna have a whopping 10 terabyte hard drive for your console? imagine the extra cost that would be.. sure by then, hard drives will be cheaper. but still, having no physical media would mean you are entirely dependent on your hard drive.. the bigger, the more expensive. always.

what if your hard drive gets corrupted? you've just lost all your games man! with physical media, you don't have to worry about that as much. if one disc gets scratched, no sweat. it's just one game gone. if your hard drive full of downloaded games gets corrupted?

sure microsoft or sony will probably refund you and let you download it AGAIN. but hey, you wanna spend another three days downloading metal gear solid 5? you wanna deal with the hassles of customer service people who keep referring you to the next guy over and over?

no.

unless internet speeds reach astronomical speeds (at a price that is reachable by the masses) and alternative storage media are invented (aside from hard drives), there will be no digital distribution only consoles.