The Death of Console Gaming?

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selnor said:

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You dont put them on a hard drive, it goes on a flash or SD. (I cant remember what it is Toshiba are making). Then that inserts to Xbox and you play. Also I dont know anyone of my friends that buys films anymore. They all pay 14.99 a month and can download as many HD films as they want. (Or SD). Beacause you pay to download, even if you have 2 mb download speed these sites give you full bandwidth(unlike P2P torrents). I'll find some articles(which isnt hard, as it's currently regarded the near future). Also as I mentioned the idea is for Kiosks, so people dont even need the net.

 

So instead of someone buying a disc, they buy a bunch of flash cards. They would have to be a hell of a lot bigger than we have right now and be cheaper than a disc (which I have a very hard time believing at the moment, even blu ray discs). I don't see how people would sell off games they don't want anymore either. also someone would have to pay for a kiosk to store all these games on that people will be buying through and have it hooked up to a good internet connection to download new games or pay people to go around loading new games onto them. And where will these kiosks be, a Walmart? They will want a cut of the sales if they are going to have it there and that kind of defies the point of digital distribution.

For the bolded part, people you know is not a big sample size. Hell I can counter that with the people I know used to download a bunch of movies and anime, but gave up to just buy it on disc. A part of that is now we are no longer poor, jobless highschoolers.

 

edit:  I'm not trying to be (to) confrontational, but the whole digital distribution thing just doesn't add up to me.  Either people download it straight to their house, but most can't have or want to pay for  high enough speed internet and the digital distribution through kiosks have to be located somewhere and wherever it is going to be located is going to want a portion of the cut and then what is the point of dd, except to maybe save $3 on packaging.