Ivory tower....
Ivory tower....
I can see, you know, with my eyes and all. But I'm looking for the deeper meaning.Originally Posted by banditwolf
The real Goldar: "GVC are posers."
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The solution to the ridiculousness of having to download an enormous update to play THPS5 would be to fire up any other Tony Hawk game and play that while it downloads. You'll have the same experience either way.
It could be less glitchy than THPS5 though. So not entirely the same experience.
Either way, a 7.7Gb patch is preposterous.
The real Goldar: "GVC are posers."
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Most of my torrents aren't that damn much.
It's a card that rewards you for not playing, which is exactly what you'll be doing with many of Atlus Europe's digital releases.
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OMG... I remember now. That is a MTG card.It's a card that rewards you for not playing, which is exactly what you'll be doing with many of Atlus Europe's digital releases.
The real Goldar: "GVC are posers."
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It probably also belongs in the RETRO VGS console thread, but I'm going to put it here because it's relevant.
I'm skeptical of RETRO's console, being that they don't have a prototype and a lot of the hardware specs are not completely fleshed out. The high price also doesn't help, nor do some of the other boneheaded decisions that they've made before bringing the product to crowdsourcing. The lack of development environment and the prospects of bare-metal coding on an ARM chip to port games are not particularly promising.
However, looking at it from the perspective of the physical vs digital issue, this is a console where they are dedicated to continuing to bring physical games to a new machine. It's probably a pretty powerful machine as well, factoring a modern ARM and an FPGA.
If they'd only put a bit more time into it, maybe we could see it come to fruition. Fact of the matter is, we probably need to look away from "The Big 3" for physical games in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8CJbQtCziI
Oh. Wrong "Big 3".
I don't expect physical games to disappear anytime soon from The Big 3's platforms tbh. Lots of people out there still , located amidst a colony of tumbleweeds, with bandwidth caps or slow internet connections. Those people cannot download a whole lot of 35Gb+ games a month. So, triple A games would sell considerably less imo, if they were only released digitally atm.
Storage space on the console itself is also a bit of a problem still. I mean, the current PS4 models come with 500Gb and 1Tb HDDs, right? That's not a big step up from the PS3's specs in that department. You can only store around 10 games on the entry level model.
Sony has been trying hard to push digital only, first with the PSP Go (we all know how that went), now with PS Plus (but that is a rental service really). They haven't dared releasing any of their first party titles digital only yet though. It's going to take just that, I think, to open the digital floodgates: a big publisher releasing a triple A game digitally only, and that release being hugely succesful. I don't see that happening. Those bandwidth caps have been there for years, and ISPs haven't exactly dropped their subscription prices. In stead I see smaller games that were released digitally only at first, enjoyed some commercial success, then get a physical release as well: the Torchlight games, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, Shovel Knight, ...
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The real Goldar: "GVC are posers."
http://i.imgur.com/PI2Ob5H.png
My monthly bandwidth would be 1/2 a game a month.
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