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Zekkyou on 04 April 2014
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Zappykins said:
Zekkyou said:

Of course. Games sell far more physical copies on consoles than they do digital. Hence "heavily favoring physical media".

Until a stable streaming service arrives or games suddenly becomes a lot smaller, it's likely going to stay favored towards physical copies for several more years. Pricing also needs to improve.

PC is the only place we've seen it swing heavily towards digital, but that's largely thanks to the convenience of downloading on a PC and the great services available for it both is quality and pricing (aka steam :p).

Well, I would say phones and tablets are about as pure digal as we have.  I don't think there is really any physical games for those devices.  If there was it woudl be very rare.

As most of people here are growing up in the information age, I'm still not understanding how they can not graps the value of this off sight processing.  Nvidia has shown it too.  Some of the processing is done of the severs, then the final reder on the local machine.  Small amounts of data are actually exchanged, so the stream back and forth isn't so big.  The server can calulate where are the object (like falling pieces) and send them to the local manchine to process. It's not 40gb a second at all.   Heck I used to play World of Warcraft on a dial up.  And it worked. 

I was talking in regards to gaming, not technology in general (I figured that was obvious considering where we are and the topic at hand). Gaming has always been several years behind the tech of other industries, since it revolves around software more than the tech itself.

I'm not downplaying it's value, I'm simply pointing out it's quite a few years off. This is a prototype achieved under perfect conditions, and it still has multiple flaws. We still have ping issues on MP for goodness sake, even with dedicated servers :P We aren't suddenly going to have calculated physics. There are multiple hurdles that need to be crossed before this tech will be reliable enough to used on a wide scale. Outside of simple uses such as AI or more precises target locators, i doubt we will see that wide spread use for quite a while.

No idea what you are talking about with 40GB/s though o.O I never said anything like that. He asked me "really?" to me saying that gaming on consoles currently heavily favors physical media, and i said of course it does. The only way people are going to suddenly swap to digital is either games becoming smaller to download (it takes longer for most to download a 40GB file to their console than just go out and buy the game), or if we get a stable streaming service. Outside of that the transition will continue to be slow.