What if all gaming went digital? Will they all flop? since "PSP Go flopped"

[Onyxmeth]

bdbdbd said:
@Onyx: Reasons for music and movies to go downloadable are standardised devices and the existance of radio and TV, that both use the "downloadable" model.

We do already have an example about DD in games, in the form of flash games.

Movies are going to take a while longer than music to go downloadable, which is due to higher price, since people seem to care only about dirt cheap or free online content.

Games however, could work with rental model. Rent a game for a day for nominal price and after the time expires, the console removes the game from the system memory.

Movies aren't close to being there yet. There's nothing remotely popular outside of iTunes files for your iPod, but the size will cause it to never be the standard. We need some sort of top-box to take over, but none have gotten the job done so far. Until that happens movies will not move past physical media.

Regarding flash games, they don't require downloading and they're free. Flash games are not a reason to draw conclusions about the viability of $50-$60 console games, which is what I was talking about. Sony won't even bother continuing in this direction with the PSP once the hackers get it working backups like the old models.