How come no one is talking about the biggest Sony news from Gamescon?

[Scoobes]

Kasz216 said:

bananaking21 said:
the logic in this thread is amazing "this sounds cool! so it cant be true" you guys do realize that sony fucking announced it to be true right? that they already announce the partners and thus made the deals with them?

The problem isn't that it doesn't exist at all, but that it's likely not what people are thinking it is.

 

People are taking it as "Sony is making a deal to put cheap superfast broadband internet everywhere to anyone with a PS3".

 

When, if you look at the actual announcements and articles talking about it...

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/virgin-media-to-be-ps4-s-broadband-partner-may-offer-gamer-specific-deals-1174502

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a508504/gamescom-2013-sony-announces-orange-virgin-ps4-broadband-packages.html

 

It all just sounds more like...  "Some companies will offer special deals for gaming focus online that will be branded with the Playstation name." 

"Up to 200" doesn't mean we're going to lay pipe everywhere so everyone can get it.   It means in specific areas.

I'd guess what these deals will do is recognize the PS3 as a device and end the "throttling" that happens to consumers.   In effect meaning it's "reserved" for gaming.

This sounds the most feasible theory so far. The ISPs probably have a method for recognising the PS4 and keep bandwidth reserved for the console. The first link seems to suggest this will be for anyone with a Virgin Media broadband package so they're probably using it to bring in more consumers to sign up to Virgin whilst Sony have a new selling point for the PS4.