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Staude on 13 March 2009
NJ5 said:
Rainbird said:
@ NJ5

The dilemma is that the blu-ray offers much space to be used for games, and downloading games designed for that is probably a massive pain in the ass, both for users and Sony's servers.

I can't see Sony offering a game like MGS4 or Uncharted for download, unless they rebuilt the games for it, which I don't see happening.

Clearly a model like this would be directed at people in developed countries with great Internet connections. I don't think it would be a big problem. With my connection I could download a 50 GB game in around 10 hours, and AFAIK no PS3 game is that big yet.

But as I said I don't see it happening either, as it probably would end up costing around the same to produce.

 

 

Metal gear solid 4 is.

It would also be an issue regarding .. well movies. It wouldn't be able to play blu ray movies either (obviously) which again would be major fail.



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Rainbird on 13 March 2009

@ Staude

I'm pretty sure MGS4 is "only" 40 GB



Euphoria14 on 13 March 2009
seece said:
I agree, what ffin moron would believe it anyway, how on earth would it play PS3 games ....

 

Sony wanted to release a $400 PS1?



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pbroy on 13 March 2009
Rainbird said:
@ Staude

I'm pretty sure MGS4 is "only" 40 GB

 

Really?

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student on 13 March 2009
seece said:
I agree, what ffin moron would believe it anyway, how on earth would it play PS3 games ....

I can see the news stories now. "New PS3 doesn't play PS3 games!"

 



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Feylic on 13 March 2009
NJ5 said:
Rainbird said:
@ NJ5

The dilemma is that the blu-ray offers much space to be used for games, and downloading games designed for that is probably a massive pain in the ass, both for users and Sony's servers.

I can't see Sony offering a game like MGS4 or Uncharted for download, unless they rebuilt the games for it, which I don't see happening.

Clearly a model like this would be directed at people in developed countries with great Internet connections. I don't think it would be a big problem. With my connection I could download a 50 GB game in around 10 hours, and AFAIK no PS3 game is that big yet.

But as I said I don't see it happening either, as it probably would end up costing around the same to produce.

 

I also live in a developed country, but it would probably take me 10 days to download 50GB, not to mention my connection would probably be terminated for exceeding bandwidth limitations before I finished. Infrastructure has a long way to go before downloads take over completely...

 



Rainbird on 13 March 2009
pbroy said:
Rainbird said:
@ Staude

I'm pretty sure MGS4 is "only" 40 GB

 

Really?

Which means..?

Also, my memory was off, it was LBP that took up 40 GB of space (http://dlb-network.com/2008/09/littlebigplanet-takes-a-lot-of-big-space-40gb-on-blu-ray/), but it seems that there is a bit of mystery when figuring out the size of MGS4 (http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1175421&postcount=610)



NJ5 on 13 March 2009
Feylic said:

I also live in a developed country, but it would probably take me 10 days to download 50GB, not to mention my connection would probably be terminated for exceeding bandwidth limitations before I finished. Infrastructure has a long way to go before downloads take over completely...

 

Of course, but no one is saying that downloads will take over completely any time soon...

 



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justinian on 13 March 2009
Feylic said:
NJ5 said:
Rainbird said:
@ NJ5

The dilemma is that the blu-ray offers much space to be used for games, and downloading games designed for that is probably a massive pain in the ass, both for users and Sony's servers.

I can't see Sony offering a game like MGS4 or Uncharted for download, unless they rebuilt the games for it, which I don't see happening.

Clearly a model like this would be directed at people in developed countries with great Internet connections. I don't think it would be a big problem. With my connection I could download a 50 GB game in around 10 hours, and AFAIK no PS3 game is that big yet.

But as I said I don't see it happening either, as it probably would end up costing around the same to produce.

 

I also live in a developed country, but it would probably take me 10 days to download 50GB, not to mention my connection would probably be terminated for exceeding bandwidth limitations before I finished. Infrastructure has a long way to go before downloads take over completely...

 

Completely agree. It's like 0.001% of the developed world with that capability, much less the percentage that own a PS3.

Buying a PS3 shouldn't automatically mean you have to install a lease line. My office has (6x2M) 12M lease line and I am sure I couldn't do 50GB in 10hrs.

 

 



NJ5 on 13 March 2009
justinian said:
Feylic said:

I also live in a developed country, but it would probably take me 10 days to download 50GB, not to mention my connection would probably be terminated for exceeding bandwidth limitations before I finished. Infrastructure has a long way to go before downloads take over completely...

 

Completely agree. It's like 0.001% of the developed world with that capability, much less the percentage that own a PS3.

Buying a PS3 shouldn't automatically mean you have to install a lease line. My office has (6x2M) 12M lease line and I am sure I couldn't do 50GB in 10hrs.

 

 

In Portugal and Sweden (and I know other countries too) tons of people have at least a 16 Mbit connection. It's really cheap too (20-40 €)

If we count developed world as EU+USA+Canada+Oceania+Japan that's almost 1 billion people, according to your calculation only 10,000 people have this kind of connection :P

(and yes, I know you were exaggerating on purpose)

 



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