Euphoria14 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Euphoria14 said:
All your other issues may end up being taken care of if SONY makes full use of their Gaikai purchase. At that time they could easily create a higher monthly payment service that would allow for streaming of all games across the Playstation catalogue. I would guess in $20/month range and would likely exclude newly released titles. Only adding them after 3-6 month of release in your territory.
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Streaming games will take a long LONG time to be viable to everyone. Half of the USA doesn't have fast enough internet connections to stream 1080p at 60fps. I would NEVER pay for a service that I can't get the quality I want. I also like my collection or physicle games more than my digital licenses.
When everyone has affordable fiber internet in their homes I can see streaming games take over, but that is at least a generation away. And by generation I mean a human generations not a console generation.
Right now you have to live in a major city and within close distance to a server farm and have very fast broadband to stream games at the quality expected from a retail game.
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You really think it would take that long?
I hope we get pleasantly surprised.
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Yes I do, at the very least.
The USA is huge and our population is spread out across the countryside. Half of us are live in rural areas that are hours away from metro areas. Many are still stuck with dialup. Some opt for satalite internet, but it's uplink is too slow for gaming. Some are lucky to have DSL, but it's the slowest DSL you can imagine and only barely good enough for online gameplay but not even good enough to stream 1080p youtube videos without constance buffering.
To lay the lines all across the country would takes billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of workers and still takes many years to complete. Few companies are willing to make that kind of investment because their returns would not be worth it. It's cheap and easy to string a mile of fiber down the street to 500 apartment tenants, but it takes far more money and effort to lay 200 miles of line to get to 200 houses who may not even all want to pay for it.
