26th March 2006, 7:41 PM
Quote:storage is not an issue, there will always be larger capacity drives, cheaper drives, whatever. if the consumer wants to d/l games on to Rev, he can get the cheapest 10 gig HDD or the more expensive 80 gig drive or the much cheaper, korean company made hello kitty '"1000" gig' HDD
No, storage is a major issue. There will always be larger drives? Sure, but as I said, that ignores the fact that the size of games will go up at at least the same rate! As we get bigger hard drives, we get bigger games and media formats. The size of harddrives has not increased vastly above the size of games, and it won't in the future either, so your theory here is flawed.
Quote:Oh, i'm not saying that this coming gen is going to be medium-less, i'm saying it's the begining of it. Once you connect millions of people together, stuff happens quickly. All that has to happen is someone, any third party (Datel) or Nintendo, releases an HDD for Revolution. Once that happens, you wont be able to stop small deveopers, indies, etc from releasing d/l Rev games. And if they sell, you can bet your ass that major developers will follow suit.
Developers won't release games based on a third party addon. It just won't happen. In the console world I don't think it ever has before, and it won't now... the manufacturers conrol these things. Also, who knows if it's technically possible? Just because the Rev supports CD cards and has USB ports doesn't mean it could support a third party addon harddrive, that's for sure... Now, will there be downloadable full Rev games? Maybe. Will there be add-on hard drives? Hmm... I don't know. Nintendo has repeatedly said that they don't like that idea and like flash memory more, so I'm doubtful. I expect them to focus on small games as the download titles -- like what Microsoft is doing now. (though MS might have some aspirations of digital distribution, it won't happen with a 20GB HDD, that's for sure... Sony's plans will be equally limited by space...)
Now, if you can burn the games to DVDs like you can downloaded movies, that'd be a different story... but I somehow doubt that any sane console gaming company would allow such a thing. Too many piracy concerns there.