How much more extra crap do we need to buy to have the "real" 360?
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How much more extra crap do we need to buy to have the "real" 360?
The problem with the arguement for downloading games like music is that music is much, much shorter than games, length wise. Where you can get five or six minutes of entertainment out of a good song on its first play-through you get five or six hours out of a game. The incentive to actually buy a new game when you already have two that will last you four days is very low.Quote:
Originally Posted by ssbomberman
The fee for buying a game online would have to then be raised considerably to account for this large time difference. The problem is greedy corporations, but then again without them there wouldn't be enough money to produce this material in the first place. Catch 22.
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Originally Posted by SpoDaddy
Microsoft isn't just pushing it on the console front though. They're doing it with PC's as well.
http://hdbeat.com/2005/12/29/microso...e-hd-dvd-fate/
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Microsoft considers full HD-DVD support in Microsoft Vista, the next operating system due out in late 2006. Blu-Ray would likely be unsupported in the new OS in order to further persuade the market (and OEMs) towards HD-DVD. Add to the fact that Media Center functionality will be included into Vista and you've got a recipe for a struggling Blu-Ray format.
Er, manufacturing, packaging, and shipping costs are a huge part of companies' expense on games. With online distribution, all that is gone. They could charge half of what they currently do for games and make as much or more profit than they are with physical products.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
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Originally Posted by ssbomberman
i dont mind downloading games either, it'll also benefit the manufacturers since they wont have to pay to ship or package games like you said. but if i had to download a Blu-Ray game, which i'm guessing would be in the 9GB and above range, it would take an awfuly long time to download unless you have a super connection! ...afterall, i dont think everyone has broadband....not yet atleast, and the industry doesn't want to miss out on them.
do you happen to work for infinium labs? :lol:
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Originally Posted by ssbomberman
is that the same as HD-VHS?
I've never heard of HD-VHS. Maybe you're thinking of S-VHS (S-Video), or what was originally called Super-VHS?Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
Yeah, I used S-VHS when I was a "Media Duplication Specialist" for Anne Arundel Community College.
Basically I copied tapes all day.
You were missing something:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...id=18213&stc=1
NO NO NO NO NO and NO! I do not want all of my expensive media content on a harddrive that will die, will become outdated as larger HDs are made, is a pain to move to a new PC as the PC becomes outdated, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by ssbomberman
I want physical disks that I can rip to whatever HD I'm currently using and put into storage. When I need to rip again, I can. No worries. I want to actually own what I paid for.
Yeah. For fucking real. Discs for life, imo.