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David Perry: physical games media is on its last breath |
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Physical games media may be at the sunset of their lives, according to David Perry. Speaking at an opening keynote in UK for the 4th Annual Develop Conference in Brighton, the Gaikai founder expressed his belief that "It won't be long before 100 per cent of games are all online."He even gave credit to Facebook for providing game content to the users without the need of physical data. He described it as "a major step forward." But within the same breath, he also talked about the not-so-good things that going all digital on games will bring.
For one, there's the excruciating wait for those download times, registration processes, installation procedures and so on and so forth. These, according to Perry, impede the experience of play, which is the most essential allure of video games.
Then he compared it to the successful App Store of Apple, coupled with the one tap to install, one tap to play gadget iPhone. It would seem that he attributes the success of the App Store, having raked in 1.5 billion downloads in its first year alone, to the efficiency and simplicity of the gadget.
So (and here he segues rather smoothly), those friction problems, you won't have that in Gaikai. You'll only need 1.2MB to run the service even, and for sure, more than half of the UK and US population should have sufficient bandwidth to use Gaikai.
In a nutshell, physical games media is a dying breed. Soon, they will all be wiped out, leaving our games to the memories of our computers and consoles, appreciated by the byte. But acquiring it may prove to be such a hassle, especially because of the preliminaries you have to do before you can enjoy. But don't worry, those frictions won't be a problem for you -- if you use Gaikai.
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downloading a game for more than 30 dollars just doesn't seem right to me but if that's how much i think games would be priced, minimum, if they were only downloadable.
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Get your head out of your ass. That's not where douches belong.
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This won't happen anytime soon. Like the people that predict the death of youtube.
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The most prominent impedence to internet content is, of course, a viable connection. By this I mean a stable, broadband connection with no or very high monthly bandwidth limits.
Comcast recently announced a 250GiB per month cap on residential connections. You might say this is high now, but that's only a few blu-ray PS3 games downloaded. Let's not forget that people stream videos, listen to music, AND download movies to their computers nowadays (legal or not).
Now, I'm not saying there isn't a hugely viable marketplace for downloaded games (Steam is huge), but I don't think one will overtake another in the console realm any time soon.
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Anyhow, I see your point. There are too many people still without substantial enough broadband speeds for it to reach a large enough market. No one wants to pay $150+ per month just to have a fast enough connection to have a hope of downloading a game the day it comes out. I'm sure they'll figure something out like steam where they pre-load it on your system. But with games like TF2 the demand was so high that I wasn't able to play the day it came out. The demand was so high for that game that it took me like 3-4 days to download it. I have a 5mpbs connection.
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Nothing beats a physical copy, you can manage everything with it; with a digital copy, what happens when the file gets corrupted, re-download and waste more time?
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Now back that up!
All that wasted money on games.... Gone.
The truth is shhht happens to our consoles. Id wrather go out and buy another console without the worry of re downloading my games and starting over.
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Whats that called in the states, being able to resell software? First purchase rights or something?
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As someone above mentioned, most ISPs have quotas. I wouldn't even be able to download 1 PS3 game a month.
Consoles don't come with harddrives big enough for this
96% of the world doesnt have broadband
Going download-only won't even work for PSP Go, let alone PS3, 360 or Wii
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If they're thinking about doing digital distribution so much, someone should come out with a digital insurance plan and make gamestop and other such stores insurance plans obsolete. Buy a game and register it online and get a ticket to download the same game free, that way if you get a Microsoft brand death ring on your disc or your idiot fried/cousin/sibling scratches your nice Blu-Ray disc you can play the digital one and not have to worry about buying the same game over again.
Screw digital distribution imo, it takes too long and is too unreliable. Hard drives fail often and are often the first to go on a computer or console, rather be careful with something I have complete control over.
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I still can't make up my mind on this thing. I think I'd want the hard copy with box and manual, but having everything on the hard drive and being able to start up any game instantly without bothering with the discs would be kinda nice. But then the price is dictated by whoever runs the service, unlike hard copies where any retailer can decide to put a game on sale. And there would be no more cheap games on eBay. I can find Fallout 3 for PC on eBay for like $20, but it's still $50 on Steam...
So from what I can see, the only good thing it'll do is eliminate annoying discs. As for cons, it'll suck up bandwidth while you're downloading, take forever to download if you don't have very high speed internet, eliminate the rental and used games markets, eliminate all sales of every kind, take up tons of HDD space... yea the con list pretty much vastly outweighs the pro list. Bad idea
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Honestly tho you would think im ready to switch to the digital format only since i pirate a lot of games but the truth is im not. Maybe for smaller games that are around100 megabytes but nothing more. Its not worth the time it consumes or money for all the support.
Lmao they should give us all free tetrabyte hard drives :)
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All of you who are B.tching first of all this is not going to start right now so don't get your panties in a bunch and calm down this is way in the future. He says physical media is STARTING to fade away.
Rant over!!!!!!!!!!
I had to login just to knock some since into you idiots acting like this is taking affect RIGHT NOW
Rant really over !!!!!!!!!
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I never want to see this system implemented unless they can work out all of these problems, and I don't see how they can do that. Way too many to deal with lol. I'm not willing to steal games, so pretty much if systems like these mean I can't buy games on the cheap, I don't want them around. I'll stop gaming the day I'm forced to pay $60 for every game
As for Perry's streaming system, which is very different I know and actually does eliminate a lot of the problems I mentioned, I also don't believe in Gikai. Not only do I believe it flat out won't work, but even if it does as with OnLive you are forced to play games in a maximum of 720p. That to me is a killer, I have a 1080p TV and a nice PC monitor for a reason. So no thank you
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http://www.qj.net/Not-enough-awesome-Crackdown-only-broke-even/pg/49/aid/133111
This guy is another one who would probably love digital distribution to take over asap.
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