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Rpruett on 20 April 2009
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NJ5 said:


What did retailers do to react to online distribution of music and movies? Not much as far as I've seen (not most retailers, just some that got into the DD bandwagon such as Amazon).

 

 Have movies/music  moved into a complete online/retail distribution yet?  As far as I know they haven't.  There is always plenty of movies I can get in a store that I can't find online to purchase.  Kinda hard to see how retailers reacted to something that hasn't happened yet right? 

 

Regarding game sizes, I think they won't increase fast given that developers are spending too much money already. Most next-gen games will not be fantastically more detailed or bigger than current games unless more publishers want to go bankrupt (beyond the ones that will anyway during this gen). It's not "business as usual" any longer.

I'm not suggesting game sizes will increase faster necessarily.  I'm just suggesting that 50 GB will be the standard size (Even on a low ball estimate) IMHO.   50 GBs on a  6 Mbps connection sucks.  Even expecting obvious speed increases,  as you stated above 50 GBs on an 11 MBPS sucks as well.

 

Regarding download speeds, note that I'm not saying everyone will have to download games. The games industry won't jump into DD-only distribution that soon. It's just an option for those who do have access to good broadband connections (a number which will surely be bigger in the next generation).

 

Oh I understand what you were saying.  I'm just suggesting that for Downloadable games to be 'fully' supported?  The market has to be there for it.   Like I said,  I see more support.   I just see some games not making digital distribution debuts.