Sony: PS4 Won't Be "Digital Only"

[Assmar]

[citation][nom]KageRyu[/nom]Forget PS4. I WANT BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ON THE PS3!![/citation]
Shoulda got a good one when you had the chance.

 

[Assmar]

Awww, I thought that I'd be able to play my vinyl on it. Terrible article title.

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]KageRyu[/nom]Forget PS4. I WANT BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ON THE PS3!![/citation]
Buy a ps2 with less than the difference a backwards compatible ps3 costs. Also, the rendering of the games is different. You get better graphics playing ps2 games on a ps2. (All you haters look this up before thumbs down it)

 

[feeddagoat]

PSPgo always was an experiment to test the waters. Even if it flopped they still had the older PSP's on sale (either that or no ones buying them either) which could also handle downloads. Personally I wouldn't mind total downloads but only if there is more than one company involved. PSN has a monopoly for PS3 games and so has steam on PC. Im still buying physical games since its only occasionally cheaper to download from steam tho you can never put a value on handiness of downloads.

 

[Simple11]

Those complaining about not having backwards compatibility were probably the same people that bought and XBox because the PS3 WITH Backwards compatibility were 500$. Now who's laughing. Anyhow, I prefer going to the store and popping in a disc, because they made a great point. Network infrastructure isn't up to par in the US, unless you really wanna pay the premium. So really all the hate about it should be directed toward private sector and government for not making our network infrastructure in the top10 of the to-do list.

 

[dimcorner]

So lets say it's Christmas, how do you get games as presents to unwrap? Just a card with a code on it? Also lets say you have 5 games you got in one shot in Christmas, do you have to wait a whole day to download them? Will it kick you past your data cap for the ISP? How do you trade in games for credits once you played them? Can you gift the game to a buddy once you beat it?

 

[bv90andy]

[citation][nom]KageRyu[/nom]Forget PS4. I WANT BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ON THE PS3!![/citation]
You might find one in the "developing countries" where shops import them on their own and have stocks from back then. I know I bought an xbox last year made in 2006 😉 it only worked for 6 months though 🙁

 

[orionantares]

It really won't be that difficult for Sony to make a VM that could run PS2 games and deploy it in a firmware update, especially given the power of the PS3 hardware.

 

[orionantares]

[citation][nom]americanherosandwich[/nom]Sure, 720p might be the standard for most people, but in 2-3 years, the standard will be 1080p while some people might even be using 1440p. Xbox 360 made sense, as 360 is a full circle. Xbox 720 means going full circle twice, or describing the resolution. If the next Xbox was named Xbox 720 and the next PS console PS4 1080, I think the PS4 1080 would win because of the higher standard they put in place, not the numerical standard everyone is content to use.[/citation]

Calling it now, Xbox 3D is the next name. 😛

 

[braneman]

yay I wont have to download next gen blue ray disks from an extremely overloaded network opening day. that would be a NIGHTMARE.

 

[elcentral]

well not that id ewer go and buy a xbox 720 but 720p is quite dead for me and all my friends and almost all ppl around me. im not saying i cant live whit 720p, but then the games need atleast 4x anti aliasing. i only got my ps3 for the sole promis of 1080p games. some manage a hig anti aliasing so it worked but i sold it. how much time and money you put in a game dossent mather if it locks like pure crap becouse if it got to low rez "720p" and low anti alians whit lots of stuff it getts cluttered and hard to see a thing.

 

[pochacco007]

pspgo somewhat a failure?? is isn't somewhat, it is a failure!
the main purpose of the pspgo was digital distribution. well that didn't do well with the pspgo. so it failed. what does that mean for digital distribution?! it means don't go that route or else you're dead. this statement by sony only proves it.

 

[jkflipflop98]

[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]Ummm.. today's game discs are capable of 50GB... Even using the same standard some people just don't have the connection speed to want to wait for a 50GB download.Can we ban "tradeshoes27" please![/citation]

They're capable of 50GB, but noone actually uses close to that. Even games that Sony likes to tout as being "only possible on blu-ray" have the data re-written on the disk multiple times to make the size bigger than it actually is.

 

[tayb]

Sorry but what we've been saying for years is actually true. The vast majority of people do not have the bandwidth to download next generation games. They just don't. We are talking about people downloading what could potentially be 20GB files. What if I want to go get a couple of games? Need to download 40GB worth of data? That could literally take days, not hours. No thanks. I'm not running a T1 line in my little apartment. I'll just head to the store and get the disc.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

[citation][nom]jomofro39[/nom]I hope we can at least have the option to download every game, thereby having a digital backup, and possible re-downloads if necessary (Steam, anyone?).[/citation]

No. For consoles you can keep your DRM. I don't want it anywhere near. Don't kill my used games market.

I like my first sale doctrine rights, thank you very much.

I only ever use steam when I can get whatever it is at least $30 or less. Noone else does sales at all. They expect you to pay the same amount for something is free for them to distribute as the physical copy they have to pay for to be produced.

 

[adamboy64]

Good news to hear.

 

[fatdoi]

in primitive countries like australia where i live, there's something called download limit.. that is we have a set gb like 50gb, 100, 150 200 etc each month of download volume & once we exceed the limit we either pay extortionate per meg or the speed tuned down to 56k or 128k... so do i want to blow 1/3 of my monthly volume on a game which i can buy from stores??

 

[david__t]

Apart from any of the bandwidth issues, Sony has too much invested in Bluray to simply chuck out optical drives altogether. And people are missing the point that its quite possible that you would be required to be online all the time with a digital only console - DRM and anti modding measures will have never had it so good. Be careful what you wish for people...

 

[drwho1]

Good choice, the day that consoles go 100% digital distribution will be the day that I will say ADIOS! to console gaming.

It's ok if a percentage of games (old/relaunch games), movies, etc... most of which I won't care about... but I rather have my NEW games on a physical media disk and have the ability to backup this legally bought media in case something happens to either the disk
or the console.

 

[bobusboy]

Digital Distribution is going to suck.

What happens when i want to borrow my buddies game, but because its tied to his gamertag i cant access it. Hell how do i get it on my machine let alone play it.