The BS Xbox next rumor of the week is....

I think the newest no physical media rumor is complete BS, I double MS would go that way and alienate a large chunk of there customer base.

What would sound realistic is, "Xbox next, will be using a highly optometrist and closed propriety format, based on the HD-DVD IP Microsoft already owns part of"

 

It'd be great if IGN used that image in a "article" wouldn't it?

 

Even though it is obvious to a blind man that the characters are superimposed.

 

And it's so grainy it looks like it's somehow running on the SNES.

 

Optical media is still the way to go for game distribution. You cannot beat the cost and accessibility of it. Anyone can go into a retail store and buy a disc. Not so many people can download a 4GB to 50GB game from their internet at home.

Everyone knows a new Xbox and a new Playstation are on the way. Why people are such lifeless idiots making shit up about it, who knows. Here's a shocker, the new consoles will be more powerful than the current ones. And they'll be released in the future. That's breaking news.

 

Sort of it's a screen shot I took off of Mugen

It's what happens when a 720p image is shrunk.

Looks better in motion

 

People are already downloading HD movies as big as most X360 games, and well the vast majority of those with $500 for a brand-new nextgen unit already have broadband, and a dataplan.

MSFT can always launch a cheaper discless unit, and because it needs a connection to work they can subsidize it using ads and other stuff, amazon is already killing all the other ereaders by doing exactly that with the new kindle, and nobody seems to mind.

Lets be honest companies dont really care about deadbeats who cant afford broadband on this day and age: for what they care those are probably the same "assholes" buying "illegal" used games instead of "brand new" overpriced ones

Dont be a commie, burn your old games and buy only new ones, signed the corporate console overlords

 

Half the country still doesn't have Broadband access Parts of the south, The Mid west. THE EXTREME MID WEST all lack said high speed.

Download only consoles...20 years away min

 

Digital only console with REAL quality control and proper use of sale prices where appropriate could go a long way. Letting people sell game licenses to others might help alleviate the used market's downsides too.

Still we'd need someone gutsy who can proverbially tell "the man" to shove it.

Able to get enough market penetration to where demand from its users would basically force broadband providers to expand their coverage. Not willing to tolerate restrictive license terms (look how many short lived XBLA games there were), clear attempts at publisher greed (unnecessary day one DLC / etc), games containing obvious dev team laziness (especially framerates have been a problem this gen)...

 

I rarely download HD movies, I can barely watch "HD Cable" which the quality is no where near on par with the quality of video of Blu-Ray.(I've had HD cable with Comcast and Charter in two different states and the quality is barely passable. There are so many compression artifacts and other quality issues it's hysterical)

Digital downloads and streaming come with too many quality compromises that I find unacceptable. They good here and there for convenience. But would I do it permanently vs buying dedicated physical media? Hell no.

Plus most Major Internet providers have inane bandwidth caps set up in place that combine your upload and download bandwidth. It just isn't practical. Who would rather spend days downloading a 50GB game on their Playstation(and half 25% of their bandwidth for the month gone) and then waiting hours for the playstation to unpack and install it. (Srsly install times on DDL games the PS3 is ridiculously slow) when you can drive 10 minutes to a store and buy a game and be able to play it near instantly (barring mandatory installs.)? Or Buying it off a place like Amazon where you can get it shipped to you in less than a week and still get it new for a fraction of the price you'd pay from the DDL service itself. (Which would obviously still charge full retail price even though they have none of the costs of manufacturing physical media)(Yes i'm looking at you Bethesda, EA,Activision etc)

 

Well Comcast and Charter SUCK. If you've ever seen anything on FIOS though....

Fios also doesn't have a Bandwidth cap.

But still there's too much holding back a move to all digital for media.

 

There is broadband in the midwest, if you can pay for it.

Problem is that unlike what the media likes to show those parts of America today are closer to the third world than to the wealthiest parts of the country, and people living in a trailer park cant afford broadband

But thats a government problem, not companies, and as I say that same people wont go and buy a $500 console at launch

And if nobody can download a >9GB game then how do you explain Steam?

 

I have family in the deep ass south I know. and inspite of their lack of broadband some of them are active gamers.
SOOOOOOOOO A console that does download only makes NO sense at all if they want to include as many people as possible.

 

It's not about "nobody". It's about the majority. And for the market right now, optical media distribution is the only form that makes sense for console games.

 

Disney toyed with movie distribution on SD Cards and it failed it FAILED HARDCORE.

I would love to see carts make a comeback but that ain't gonna happen.........EVER

 

Sneakernet. Might take a whole day to download a 12gb file on Steam but if you have friends who also own it you can share the files and load up steam. In fact Valve even seems to encourage this.

When I was the first of my friends to get access to DSL I would download the latest anime episode of whatever we were watching and pass it around on a CD-R on a weekly basis. I'd imagine today with portable HDDs being ridiculously massive (and iPod sized) it wouldn't be hard for it to happen in rural areas. The hard part would just be getting on the internet if you're way way way out in the middle of nowhere.

Might as well just pirate everything at that point if you can't even authenticate.

 

Which just proves my point about corporations not caring.

Is funny, some people actually think deep down that the suits at the Board do care at all, and well after the dead guy from apple that was taken to extremes: people leaving flowers and candles at friggin' chain stores! chain stores that are no different from a mcdonalds, just way more upscale, how absurd is that? and to a guy who closed down tons of factories on the west coast, wont let the very blue shirt idiots who peddle his mass-produced crap form a union (that was very "robber baron" of him) and used slave labor in china because he wouldnt pay more for decent working conditions despite the fact his crapware had 5 times the profit margin of anyone else's!

They dont give a shit, and as the american middle class disappears they will give even less of a shit because they cant even buy their junk, so why even bother?

 

Your cynical bitter old man capitalism sucks hat is showing

 

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