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Squilliam on 27 October 2012
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Slimebeast said:
Squilliam said:
Slimebeast said:

Oh ok. Weird.

And basically what follows from this is that my dream of getting games for nextgen Xbox to be stored and sold on SD cards or some similar flash memory, is unrealistic because of price and size?

Well don't you live in Sweden with ultra fast broadband?

Anyway it'll definitely be possible as next generation games will be limited by downloadability, I.E. games will try to remain as small as possible in order to maximise potential download sales as these are more profitable than retail releases. So yes the Xbox Infinity could indeed dispense with an optical drive and distribute on SD cards as games will probably try to stay in the 10-15GB range. The only challenge is manufacturing the SD cards so they would likely be distributed by kiosk which prints and manufacturs the SD cards and cases.

Cool, but why distributed by kiosks rather than normal brick stores? I mean 3DS games are in SD cards but have a nice plastic package.

I live in Sweden but my internet is slow, 10 Mbits/s so about 4GB download per hour. I think I can upgrade it to 100Mbit for another $25 per month but I dont know how reliable it is because it still comes through the cable network.

How fast is your internet in NZ?

My internet is 12-15Mbps. Though in a couple of years we'll have 150Mbps when the broadband rollout finishes. You should really get faster internet because you'd be able to download a 10GB game in 15 minutes.

The thing with SD card kiosks is that they can be inside the store. My idea I had was that you could walk up to a kiosk and have it print out a package, case and download the data to a flash drive. Because it is so impractical to print and manufacture SD cards compared to printing out you may as well do the manufacturing in the store itself. For popular games they can always pre-print a bunch of them so they're available over the counter. In game stores you often only get a limited catalogue of the latest/popular games so being able to get the entire back catalogue would be a revelation. It'd be far more space efficient as well.



Tease.