| archer9234 said: The US is the worst place for internet speed. Mainly because no one is spending the money to competently overhaul major cities. Till cities like NYC can have internet speeds that you can download 50GB is a few hours. DD won't take off. 24 hrs to dl 50GB isn't nice. When I can take a train to Best Buy. And get it in 1 hour. This is probbaly 15-20 years off. Plus, a lot of major companies will fight this heavly. Because this would destroy Christmas, and major game retails. Companies can easily screw Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. The consoles can't be downloaded. So stores could easily refuse to stock them. Oh, and 1TB drives are cheap, yes. But if every game is 50GB+ in the future, 1TB will be killed off in only 9 games. That's another issue. Paying $540 for games. Then another $100 every few months sucks. You'd be filling shelves with hardrives. You have to manaully mark. Then have physical discs with artwork. |
I don't know where you pulled the 50GB figure from as most games come in much lower, but either way DD will sooner or later move to the model where you can download the game say, a week before release, but it only becomes playable exactly on release date. Which obvious then cuts out the 'speed' advantage of the retailer and probably means you can playing the game from midnight rather then 9am, if you really can't wait.
If DD does come through then games won't be 50GB either, as companies pay Sony / Microsoft / whoever a fee for the amount of data transfered for their downloads. It's only pennies per GB or whatever, but it'd add up if all their games were 50GB+ lol.
I embrace the DD future, provided the content prices are right. Steam has done a great job with pricing and PS+ is a service that I find extremey good value. PSN in general is getting some better and better sales too, albeit it's still got a ways to go. I personally don't care for owning the physical 'thing' though, rather get rid of all the clutter in my room and have everything nice and easily accessible, whether that be on my hard drive or the 'cloud'.
