As Yoda said to Luke : "that is why you fail "
Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM and digital distribution, where you don't own the movies and games you purchased.
On topic: No physical media needed for distribution? Good luck with those 30-50 GB downloads of future games, of which a whole bunch will fit on those enormous internal hdds.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
Scoobes said:
Precisely what I was thinking. Are these quotes taken out of context? OT: They don't really need Blu-Ray, but I'm sure developers would prefer it if they removed the masses of copy protection from their DVDs so they could squeeze a bit more stuff on. I mean is it really acceptable that the Wii and PS2 DVDs have more space available when the 360 is the HD console? |
Especially considering that the disc copy protection doesn't help them at all since all you need to do is flash the disc drive itself...
I think they just need to release a "better" larger file version of games via DD. I've got plenty of HDD space. Either that or have their most demanding resource games be DD only.
Microsoft 2007: "We don't need motion control"
Microsoft 2009: "There you go, a motion control camera, you are the controller, yay."
Microsoft 2010: "We don't need Blu Ray"
Microsoft 2012: "Here's your Xbox with a Blu Ray player :3"
| Damnyouall said: Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM and digital distribution, where you don't own the movies and games you purchased. On topic: No physical media needed for distribution? Good luck with those 30-50 GB downloads of future games, of which a whole bunch will fit on those enormous internal hdds. |
Please check up on what I posted earlier. Games via DD would be much smaller file sizes. For example, a 50GB Blu Ray game on DD would probably only be about 25GB and maybe even a lot less. So much data is duplicated on discs to ensure they load and are accessible as quickly as possible. They could easily take a game like FF13 on 360 and release it for DD at only 8GB or so since each disc is filled with duplicated data.
The PC equivalent to an HD console game is usually 10-15GB MAX and yet it still looks better and supports higher resolutions/audio formats. I'd be perfectly fine buying a 250gb HDD and downloading those games. My internet could do one game ever 2 hours or faster.
nightsurge said:
Please check up on what I posted earlier. Games via DD would be much smaller file sizes. For example, a 50GB Blu Ray game on DD would probably only be about 25GB and maybe even a lot less. So much data is duplicated on discs to ensure they load and are accessible as quickly as possible. They could easily take a game like FF13 on 360 and release it for DD at only 8GB or so since each disc is filled with duplicated data. The PC equivalent to an HD console game is usually 10-15GB MAX and yet it still looks better and supports higher resolutions/audio formats. I'd be perfectly fine buying a 250gb HDD and downloading those games. My internet could do one game ever 2 hours or faster. |
Good post nightsurge! My guess is this will either/or be ignored or trashed though.
...And then the generation ends, your hdd breaks and you lose all your games.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
digital download? lol Nope. not liking it.
I only have dial up. Demo's take up to 6hrs for 2GB. What would a 50GB download take? A week? I live in the counrty, no Hispeed. Secondly, I kinda like being able to trade in my old games. Much lighter on my wallet. Imagine Having everything on your Hardrive and it crashing. All your games gone. Not a happy day. Video Game rentals from Blockbuster? Gone. You buy a game and don't like it or finish it in a few hrs. No prob, trade it in and get a $40 credit... With downloadable games, Your stuck!!. Take you game to your friends house for the weekend? Not gonna happen. I could go on and on hmmmmmm
| Damnyouall said: ...And then the generation ends, your hdd breaks and you lose all your games. |
DD saves your game history and download history. Have you seriously never used Steam or Xbox Live? I would likely have access to redownload my games for at least 10 years following the purchase date. Although I probably wouldn't play the games past 5 years anyway so it again does not pose much of a problem.
Yes, I have seriously never used Steam or Xbox Live for purchasing games. I like to have physical copies of my games, which I can continue to play in 20 years, or sell as I please. Stupid, I know.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
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