Mummelmann said:
And when exactly will anyone in the world have the bandwidth (or alternately the patience) to download such content that will certainly be a lot more spacious than HD? And wtf? Got into gaming because of movie formats? You do know they had two (2) Playstations before as well? What did they want in '95, rekindle Betamax by integrating CD-ROM? Strange, strange post indeed... People on Vgchartz claim (quite truly) that the HD era isn't even over us yet, and yet you talk of the next era after that again as a reason there'll be no PS4. I think it's reasonable to assume that the PS4 will premiere before 2020. There are still tens of million who use dial-up (28-56kbit) connections, and boradband usage is limited to 1/15 of the world's population yet. Why is using a disc dumber (for now) than having 2 160Gb movies on your 320 Gb harddisk? We're not that good at comprimation yet, HD movies unzipped still take 10-12 GB's and upwards (a lot upwards in fact). No, the optical formats are staying for 10-15 years at the least the way things are looking now, and the PS4 will probably be showcased for the first time in 2011 or 2012 going by the other unveilings. |
Technicaly speaking, the technology exists today that would enable the average consumer to have 100Mb/s (or potentially far greater) download speeds but the infastructure doesn't exist ... Back in 1998 I was on a fiber optic trial which offered 7.5 Mb/s or 15 Mb/s bi-directional, and I have been told that the infastructure that was built could support 100 Mb/s if the switches were updated.
In the near futurre, wireless technology will/may be able to support similar speeds with far less expensive infastructure to build ...
