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RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Tykwinski)
Fri Jan 27 09:13:59 2012
From: "Eric Tykwinski" <eric-list@truenet.com>
To: "nanog " <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F22AE5E.6030708@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:13:15 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The PS Vita still uses a proprietary memory card format, so it's not just
download only.
The best example of download only would be OnLive, which basically is a game
system that only delivers on demand games.
IMHO, it's the market that will determine whether this is the right choice
in the long run.
It's a creative way to eliminate the used market and stop piracy, but if the
consumers don't join up like the PSP Go, it will eventually fail.
Sincerely,
Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300
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-----Original Message-----
From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmccie@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:02 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.
Here's your baseline: Sony Vita. They already tossed the UMD out with the
PSP-GO and that failed miserably. Now they are trying again to go to digital
only with the Vita. It's not the scale of PS3 or XBOX360 but it may be a
good way to gauge the potential success of the concept.
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 1/27/2012 7:34 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> It's already done on a similar scale when apple releases new software for
their mobile devices.
>
> Just don't do it if you are on a low cap plan (eg: mobile, satellite etc).
Caps will be the new market discriminator IMHO.
>
> Jared Mauch
>
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Tei<oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can internet in USA support that? Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014
>> and 30 million gamers start downloading a 20 GB files. Would the
>> internet collapse like a house of cards?.
>
