Whether you call it downloadable content, game add-ons or digital media distribution, the new wave of accessing information for console games is drastically evolving thanks to die-hard efforts of Microsoft and Sony. The industry is continually finding ways to break out of the reliance of hard-copied media formats. And even though both Microsoft and Sony are vying to gain exclusives with their respective online services, Microsoft has taken things a step further for the sake of keeping the Xbox 360 alive in 2009.
It's no surprise that the Xbox 360 is showing its age every year on the market. Toss in the fact that between the red rings of doom and the disc scratching fiasco, the Xbox 360 isn't looking future proof at all.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
because atleast it acknowledges that blu ray is finally beginning to take off. That's the difference between day and night for the PS3.
This obviously isn't the first time that blu ray gets written off because of digital downloads. And it won't be the last.
Comparing, digital downloads for movies vs blu ray and then talking game content is confusing the situation for me.
Both PS3 and XBOX 360 are providing plenty of downloadable game content. PS3 is and has with Little Big Planet, Motorstorm, Dead Space, 360 obviously has the infamous GTA IV episodes.
The XBOX 360 199 sku doesn't even have a hard drive and it's selling pretty good, where does that play into all this future talk?
is something that's always been there since almost launch? No way. True it will help with smaller games but what happens when a gigantic game comes out that needs a lot of room. Are people with Xbox's supposed to download the whole game to their HDD? That HDD will run out of room really quick, isn't their max size like 120 gig? This is in no way an answer for Blu-Ray. Microsoft needs to switch to Blu or find something else but DMD is not the answer.
*looks at current bandwidth*
*shakes head in disapproval *
funny thats their answer yet sony are the ones to release full games online, ohhh and btw ermmmm dark knight got to 2 million now!! where has dmd got 2?? :)
1. People would still like the option of physical media.
2. The slow internet speeds around here can't handle that.