NJ5 said:
Munkeh111 said:
NJ5 said:
Well, it would actually be a good idea, as long as they didn't lose too much money on the hardware... It would pave the way for online distribution of big console games, and it would be quite ecological. Some people are saying you wouldn't be able to play games which are already released, why is that? They could easily put those games online too. |
1 Problem: how long is it going to take to download one of these games another problem: Ratchet took up 22GB, you have an 80GB HDD. MGS 4 is going to take up another 50GB, so how many games are you going to be able to store? |
You're right about storage (there would have to be a bigger hard drive). In terms of download time, it could easily work in Europe. Fast connections are pretty cheap around here (in Portugal and Sweden you easily can get a 24 Mbps connection for, at the very most, 50 € per month). People already download multi-GB demos these days, so it's not really such a big problem. |
Well in the UK, Virgins new fibre obtic service could do the job, but that only serves a small part of the country. However if you are looking at 50 € per month, then that is a lot more than you would normally pay for broadband, so you are paying extra to be able to download these games, which would probably cost 50 €(10 is off is fair). So it is not really cost effective. Of course, if there was a also an HD movie download service then it would certainly be more attractive, but it would have to have a several hundred GB hard drive
