With the ongoing struggle with the used game market and piracy one of the answers people prop up is the advent of digital distribution, which basically sends the game to you through the magic of the internet. (thank you Al Gore) and while I applaud such efforts, mostly because of the enviormental impact of not having to press all those dvds that will eventually find itself in a garbage heap 15 years down the road. (Sorry, your collectors edition of Alone in the Dark 4 will not be worth anything, sorry to burst your bubble)
But as the speeds of interwebs get faster and faster, the storage capcity of our media grows and grows, and believe me if developers don’t have to compress their work, they won’t. So with the new defacto bluray discs as the medium of the future I don’t see people sitting down and trying to download a 50 gig game. I just don’t see it.
I think it will work on the arcade type of games, but not on the big AAA titles that people wait on. So we are going to be paying 79 dollars for Metal Gear Solid 5 on the PS4 that will have a whole season of bad soap opera action hero drama on it, and than in three months you will be able to pick it up used for 49 dollars at your local game stop, only after someone sells it back to them for 15 dollars.
But as the speeds of interwebs get faster and faster, the storage capcity of our media grows and grows, and believe me if developers don’t have to compress their work, they won’t. So with the new defacto bluray discs as the medium of the future I don’t see people sitting down and trying to download a 50 gig game. I just don’t see it.
I think it will work on the arcade type of games, but not on the big AAA titles that people wait on. So we are going to be paying 79 dollars for Metal Gear Solid 5 on the PS4 that will have a whole season of bad soap opera action hero drama on it, and than in three months you will be able to pick it up used for 49 dollars at your local game stop, only after someone sells it back to them for 15 dollars.
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