| TeddostheFireKing said: its a fun idea, but a lot of people like the physical media, having a download only device doesn't work (as demonstrated by Onlive and the PSP Go) I can't see developers choosing to create games for this device, the way you propose the cash is distributed to developers effectively means that games like FIFA, Madden and CoD, would benefit most as they are "ever green", I don't often play a game more than one more time after I've completed it and I often go back to playing these evergreen titles as they are always fun and distracting, I can see games which only have single player getting really affected by this, as to compete with the time I play online, I'd have to intentionally go for getting all achievements/trophies for the system |
See the model I'm going after here is the Netflix model.
I have over 250 DVDs that I bought before I subscribed to Netflix. I haven't bought one since. I used to buy 1 or 2 a month, and rent from blockbusters about 6-8 a month. It's brought my entertainment cost way down, and yet we're seeing a magnatude greater in the number of videos we watch through netflix and the mailer.
I have no desire to retain the DVDs anymore because I know I can get it whenever I want. There are just a handful left that I am going to buy, and that's basically to complete my collections (yes, silly reason).
The download models employed by the other vendors doesn't work because people don't want to wait days for some of these huge games to download when they could go pick it up in the store and play it right now, fast, without having to wait. There's little to no advertising for the online games. But if ALL of your games are online, you don't browse the catalog at the store anymore, then all of the marketing is done differently. If the whole game doesn't have to download before you can play it, then those wait times are drastically reduced.
