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shanbcn on 12 July 2008

I hope they stay with DVD9 again.



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SnesTea on 12 July 2008

^^

DVD9 FTW



CAL4M1TY on 12 July 2008
Retrasado said:
I don;t know what they'll do, but I can guarantee you they won't do only digital. Their main market, the United States, is more than 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 km^2) of land that has practically no fiber-optic access. Heck, a very sizable portion doesn't even have ANY broadband at all. No, dd won't happen next gen. maybe not even the gen after that.

Yeah I feel the same way, internet in most countries is pitiful. i.e my 1.5mb adsl is considered fast in Australia and paying $70 a month is considered cheap (for what I'm getting) even though my relative's overseas get much much much faster internet, more downloads, lower cost.

Also, I like the feeling of having something solid in my hands, because I take good care of my discs and I would be constantly worried that a error in a hard drive may result in me having to download everything again (which if you've been paying attention, would be a slow and painful process under my 1.5mb adsl).

 



lapsed_gamer on 12 July 2008
jammydodge said:

What about SD cards as a delivery method?

I can imagine in 2/3 years time 32gb SD cards will be the same price as what we currently pay for 2gb cards in 2008.

SD cards would allow for a more compact XBOX also it would allow the SD cards to be used in any future Portable XBOX.

 

This please, or some other chip-based system. Add to that a solid state hard drive (hopefully they will be cheap enough by then) and I will be happy.

 



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goddog on 12 July 2008

there are already 32gb compact flash cards, though the price needs to come down. i would have no problem moving back to cartridge based games if it ment more faster cheaper. or just to digital down loads, but i want to own the game not rent it... i keep my games no trade ins.



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PS360ForTheWin on 12 July 2008

it will probably use either blu-ray or digital distribution.



Loud_Hot_White_Box on 12 July 2008
dbot said:

I am curious to see your thoughts on how MS will deliver games with the next version of the xbox. MS has stated that digital delivery is their strategic direction, but do you think they will rely solely on downloads for game delivery with the next version of the Xbox? Currently I would say their options are to use digital download, DVD, a proprietary technology, or Blu-ray. Personally, I think that Blu-ray will be their best option because it will keep the system competitive as a media center, the 4x Blu-ray players will provide more than enough speed/storage for gaming, it will be cheaper than developing a proprietary system, and it will not segment their customers to high speed Internet users.

I know that we are a few years away from new consoles, but I think it is an interesting topic for discussion.

 

MS may want to actually consider putting hard drives in all consoles if they are so big on downloads.



jammydodge on 12 July 2008

I suspect with next-gen wii HD and xbox 666 will use SD cards on retail versions and big dscount for digital delivery,for backwards compatibility  you will have to have an add-on dvd for backwards compatibility with older gen titles.

The Add-on DVD will also reduce the cost of the core product, as:

1. DVD and Blue-ray players require a payment of a licence $ on each machine capable of decoding dvd+blue-ray. As the core-product will not have a dvd player this will reduce the cost.

2. You can run direct from an SD card, it doesn't need caching to harddisk so much. hence reducing the cost of the core product.

3. SD cards readers are very cheap to manufacturer.

4. With an SD card games can be updated via the web site and games saved to the SD card. This is similar to the way TomTom operate.

5. I suspect a premium version of XBOX and WII HD will have a hard disk, to allow the support of digita downloads (unless they allow you to download digital downloads to SD).

 

In 2008 the largest SD is 32gig, but the standard has a theoretical limit of 2Terabytes.

With Sony they will probably stick in some propriety tech such as Blu-Ray2 or Sony MemoryStick



lantern on 12 July 2008

Most probably both BLU-RAY and downloads. BLU-RAY will likely be the cheapest high-capacity medium for game distribution...Unless HD-VMD and CH-DVD take off- even then it would still have to be able to play BLU-RAY movies.



Onimusha12 on 12 July 2008

Sony has said their next console will be digital download exclusive

I imagine Microsoft may try to follow suit.

Such a decision would certainly mean the end of either company though as this really only offers a convenience to the publishers, not the consumers. There are so many problems and inconsistancies with this avenue. The most viable solution would be to offer both discs and streaming/download for the same game.