Sony Online to Be free, Digital Distro PS3 strat.

[Animalor]

While this doesn't really give any real details about services or anything, it does show that Sony will be looking to sell mainly music, movies and most likely TV shows through the PS3.

I think my main question is this: What will Sony do if gamers don't adopt this mindset of buying their media or if the DRM scheme proves too limiting for this type of purchase to be worth it?

At the very least, they need to be able to pay for their development and bandwidth with this.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/12/kutar ... is-the-fu/

[Winnow]

That article talks about Sony thinking optical drives will be obsolete in two years? huh?

The hard drives in these game consoles aren't anywhere close to being big enough to handle collections of games. I have a 120GB in my Xbox and that's a joke with the average game being 4GB in size. I had to constantly delete games to fit new ones on the HD.

Also, he's nuts if he thinks people will download games and not worry about backing them up. If your hard drive goes, will you be able to redownload all the games again?

You still have cheap people or some that just don't have high speed interent available to them. I can download about 4GB an hour but that's at 9Mbps which most don't have in the U.S. at least.

I foresee big headaches with HD crashes if you can't backup your games onto DVD somehow.

Funny how Sony is saying optical drives will be fading out while pushing the expensive BluRay at the same time.

[kyoukan]

That article talks about Sony thinking optical drives will be obsolete in two years? huh?

The hard drives in these game consoles aren't anywhere close to being big enough to handle collections of games. I have a 120GB in my Xbox and that's a joke with the average game being 4GB in size. I had to constantly delete games to fit new ones on the HD.

maybe they are assuming the average consumer doesn't pirate every single game that comes out. how many legally purchased games are on your 120 gig hard drive?

[Winnow]

That article talks about Sony thinking optical drives will be obsolete in two years? huh?

The hard drives in these game consoles aren't anywhere close to being big enough to handle collections of games. I have a 120GB in my Xbox and that's a joke with the average game being 4GB in size. I had to constantly delete games to fit new ones on the HD.

maybe they are assuming the average consumer doesn't pirate every single game that comes out. how many legally purchased games are on your 120 gig hard drive?

Tons.

And along with the games, Sony is thinking they can load up movies and music? Their largest HD is 60GB on the 600.00 version.

10 games = 50GB and $600.00 (a lot of games are larger these days DVD9)

although they are pushing BluRay and huge files sizes (25GB a movie) for HD, how are they going to sell those online unless they expect people to settle for lower quality video.

[Animalor]

Actually if you check the article, he things that widespread adotion by consumers of digital content download will hit within 2 years or so. He thinks that eventually, all will be digital content. Eventually could mean 10-20 years though.

[Boogahz]

Actually if you check the article, he things that widespread adotion by consumers of digital content download will hit within 2 years or so. He thinks that eventually, all will be digital content. Eventually could mean 10-20 years though.

This pretty much follows Microsoft's recent estimates.

[Winnow]

Actually if you check the article, he things that widespread adotion by consumers of digital content download will hit within 2 years or so. He thinks that eventually, all will be digital content. Eventually could mean 10-20 years though.

If HBO starts offering downloads of their series for a reasonable fee, I may drop cable/DirecTV except during football season.

There is also a big push for internet TV where you can put together EXACTLY the channels you want instead of paying for 50+ channels you don't want with cable/satellite.

I really only want HBO-HD from my cable company. To get that, I pay 77.00/month. (20.00 of that is the HD-DVR) I'll be dumping this crap as soon as the new HD-DVR with mpeg 4 is ready from DirecTV.

I think downloadable content is a great idea but in reality, I just don't see enough people aving high bandwidth for it in the next few years for it to be the dominant method.