Playstation 3 to negate both CD & DVD as a medium for storage...?

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Originally posted by GameFreak
It makes sense for videogame developers to make this the nest step in video gaming.


People tend to always complain about people "pirating" videogames and how developers lose money because of that but fail to mention the other "evil", selling used videogames.


When you sell a used videogame the companies aren't making a dime off that.


For example, why would I pay $50 for a new copy of Jet Grind Radio Future when I could just wait a few months and get it for $20-$25 less on Ebay?



For collectors it sucks but they'll either learn to live with it or just quit gaming, it's as simple as that.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of the First Sale Doctrine - where the "evil" known as the secondary media market is protected by copyright law. Anyway, the resale value of a game is reflected in its price, so game prices will have to fall if buyers can't resell.

I will never buy a console that doesn't have physical games to buy. If all I could use aTV for was watching TV, and no VCRs/DVDs/games, I'd not own a TV set either.

Johnny, the TV series' DVD scenerio is horrible. Not nearly enough TV shows are released on DVD... if that's Sonys plan, to release afew hard games, and a bunch of dl's, they can fuck themselves. If MS or Nintendo decide to follow, they can equally fuck themselves.

Maybe but not much, Burgundy, I remember paying $50-$60 for Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo games that are basically worthless now because they are so common.



If you want to play the games you'll buy them, especially since that will be the only way to play them, it's easy to sit here and say "I won't pay for that" before you know what games are going to be released.


For videogame companies it makes sense, no shipping/packaging costs for games, they'll benefit from people having to purchase the games 1st hand and piracy will have to go down because of it.

Plus who didn't love SEGA Channel? I sure as hell did, and anticipate the next step. Just don't dismiss the notion of network gaming right away, some of you could come to love it.

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Originally posted by Johnny

Just don't dismiss the notion of network gaming right away, some of you could come to love it.

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You're right, it has many possibilities. But what I am envisioning is paying $20-$35 per game. None of this "pay a subscription fee for X amount of games." That wouldn't net nearly enough money to the game makers at first. Maybe later on after it has taken off, but not at first.

And what would force game companies to make high quality games if their product was being bundled up with 20 other games for a single subscription fee ?? They woudln't be fighting for your dollar anymore, which gives less incentive for companies to make kickass games.

- Kabuki

Developers could be paid based on the popularity of the games.

Physical media or no physical media, for every security feature invented there's always a thief who will circumvent it. Piracy won't be stopped by something this lame.

Moreover, the advent of broadband/fiber-optics being widespread enough to make this format viable anywhere but in Japan by 2005 are next to nil. 2010 maybe.

Plus I like being able to play games whenever I damn well feel like it. Not when the server decides to act right.

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Master of 7s said what I was going to say
Physical media or no physical media, for every security feature invented there's always a thief who will circumvent it. Piracy won't be stopped by something this lame.

Moreover, the advent of broadband/fiber-optics being widespread enough to make this format viable anywhere but in Japan by 2005 are next to nil. 2010 maybe.

Plus I like being able to play games whenever I damn well feel like it. Not when the server decides to act right.

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Still missing Cart boxes~
Z-roe

Bottom line for me is:

I like having my shelves and shelves of nicely designed (and some not so nice) game boxes and jewel cases.

Sometimes I like to just walk over to my shelf, pull a game off, read the back cover and maybe peruse the instruction book a bit as I think: "man I can't wait to get to this game".

People NEED to have something physical to show when the purchase products. This is half the reason that online shopping hasn't caught on more in the states. Half the fun is going out, shopping for a bit, looking thru all the new games and what-not.

Sure, with Sonys "magical broadband service" which will be everywhere in 3 years :confused:, we'll just be able to download game demos.

But, atleast to me, it's just not the same...

If I don't have a physical object, I'm not buying it. What if I wanna' play 20 years later and the file isn't available anymore?