nanog mailing list archives
Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:46:14 -0500
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:35:49 +0100, Tei said:
Theres also a rumour that these new consoles will require internet to download games.
Apply some logic here - is it in the vendor's best interests to *require* internet to download games? As somebody else pointed out, there's an awful lot of current-gen consoles in tents in Mongolia and farmhouses in Montana - do you want to make a product that those people can't buy and use *at all*? There's also a large segment of the gaming community that will, in fact, be rather upset if you take away the ritual of camping out in front of GameStop.
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?.
I'll go out on a limb and say that neither Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo are stupid enough to release the sort of console your rumors predict until after the guys at NetFlix have made it safe for them to do so. :)
Attachment:
_bin
Description:
Current thread:
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service., (continued)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Randy Bush (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Anurag Bhatia (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Randy Bush (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Justin M. Streiner (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Ray Soucy (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Anurag Bhatia (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Ray Soucy (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Anurag Bhatia (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Randy Bush (Jan 27)
- RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 28)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Ray Soucy (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Seth Mattinen (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. -Hammer- (Jan 27)
- RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Eric Tykwinski (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. -Hammer- (Jan 27)
- RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Eric Tykwinski (Jan 27)
- RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Matthew Huff (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Mark Tinka (Jan 27)
- Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service. Roland Perry (Jan 28)