windbane on 06 March 2007
stof said:
I fully expect Sony to continually build on their online content. But as for Ace in the Hole, I'm not so sure. It's unlikely we'll see too many PS2 games since they're just so large. PS1 games and movies are possible of course and would be great. But the Wii and Xbox already have their own versions. Wii's in particular is the leader right now in old content, with Snes, Nes, 64, Genisis and TurboGrafix 16, with Neo Geo and some other system on the way. Eventually, xbox marketplace will be expanded, Wii will add new content as well as old, including online games, and Ps3 will have PS1 content and film/music. Not sure which one will be the best, but I don't think anybody has an Ace in the hole.
Most games are smaller than movies. Movies tend to be 6-8GB while games are usually under 4.4GB. Some exceptions include MGS2: subsistence that is 6.4GB and God of War that is 8.5 GB. God of War as a download would be awesome, though, considering the new release of GoW 2. You could offer a discounted price of $15 or $10. Oh, and those movie estimates include special features but I personally won't use online services unless they include those.
Anyway, like I keep saying...the downloads would not take too long. There are some demos that are 700MB or so and those take what, a max of an hour? A max of 6 hours to download most games. That could be greatly reduced if they improve their servers, or include a bit torrent client that all PS3 users were connected to so they would all share the games. And, just like they do now, you can always delete the game and redownload it later. Oh, a lot of games are just a few GB so that'd be like downloading a few demos.
Anyway, I think a bit torrent client would solve everything. If the user is not playing an online game the game would be shared to those that are trying to download. Initially it would be slow, but perhaps Sony could offer more bandwidth on Thursdays or whenever they release the games to add to the bit torrent speeds. Seems a brilliant idea to me.
Still, several hours to download a full, larger ps2 game would be well worth it, especially at slightly discounted prices due to no case, booklet, and middle-man costs.
