Soundwave on 21 April 2016
| mizzou_guy said: Doesn't America have the worst internet infrastructure of the 1st world countries? Do you realize how long it's going to take to upgrade all of America's internet offerings so that everyone here can have access to speeds like that? There is no way the US will be ready for a streaming based device like this in the next 5 years. It's fine for things like Netflix, because latency isn't a problem when you're passively viewing something, but if you have to controller-responsive speeds, then it's going to take some time to get there. I don't see Sony or anyone making the move to streaming-only consoles for at least a decade. |
It's improving rapidly because Google Fiber has lit a fire under AT&T and Comcast's sorry asses by offering Google Fiber in several markets, that scared the shit out of AT&T and Comast and now they are starting to rapidly offer ultra high speed internet and the competetion is going to lead to an inevitable scenario where it's available everywhere and the price comes down.
For example, AT&T is offering Gigapower in 38 more US cities this year:
It's actually not unfeasible that all major US cities will have fiber or ultra high speed in 4-5 years time, by 10 years the entire country will have it.
