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Nem on 16 February 2013

Aslong as it works with the discs or dogital copies you download to the hard drive aswell i dont mind. But, i want to own my games. Streaming doesnt do it for me.



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BlkPaladin on 19 February 2013
VGKing said:
walsufnir said:
VGKing said:
walsufnir said:
VGKing said:
walsufnir said:
VGKing said:
It would be great if PS4 lets me install my PS3 game to the hard drive and then a virtual emulator plalys the game through Gaikai or something. This way it wouldn't really use that much bandwidth as you wouldn't be streaming full games from the cloud.

again, again and again: it is all up to *latency*, bandwidth isn't that crucial.

Yes, latency is important, but for many people, so is bandwidth.

Many people have a bandwidth limit for their internet. If they go OVER that limit, they'll be paying extra per gig or something. But a more important issue than bandwidth is internet speeds.

wait now I'm confused: what is the difference for you between bandwidth andinternet speed? do you actually mean a trafficlimit? to make the experience nice for the user internetspeed is also important but  way more latency. think of an access to the wired via satellite: you'll get high bandwidth but lousy latency and will most certainly not enjoy any streaming service. that's what I meant. 

Bandwidth and Internet Speeds are 2 completely different things.

For example, my internet speeds at 3mbps download/0.7mbps upload. My bandwidth limit is 150 gigabytes. So for me, although I have a pretty high bandwidth limit, I wouldn't even be able to run a streaming service such as Gaikai since my internet speeds is way too slow.

May I ask you where you are from? according to your profile it's us. I am surprised that youhave limited internet traffic,  really. 

Why are you surprised? The competition here in the US between Internet Service Providers is virtually non-existant.
Take  a look at this article which explains how far behind the US is in internet speeds and affordability http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/internet-speed-united-states-digital-divide_n_1855054.html


Yeah you can thank the local governments for that one. In the 1980's when cable was first starting to bloom. They signed deals with local cities to secure a utility monopoly in the area. And since the deal secured their position in the area they didn't have to do things like lowering the price of their services/improving their services to keep the competition out. Fun fact the Monopolys of old used pricing to keep start ups out. They would only make a penny or so profit off of each unit so no one could move into the market. So it really isn't true that a free market makes for the best prices. A free market means the price is set at the highest the market will bear usually.