Top Ten Gadgets That Will Be Trash Tomorrow. So Long, Video Games on a Disk

I'll take USB sticks delivered to me by pigeons over Digital Distribution. I'd rather have the cool box too. Not that Digital Distribution is a bad thing. Steam lets you pre-load games before release and unlocks them on launch day.

ChubbyGuy40

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

I'll take USB sticks delivered to me by pigeons over Digital Distribution. I'd rather have the cool box too. Not that Digital Distribution is a bad thing. Steam lets you pre-load games before release and unlocks them on launch day.

Rikusaki

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Can't wait to see the mass layoffs when the shutdown production facilities.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

I'll take USB sticks delivered to me by pigeons over Digital Distribution. I'd rather have the cool box too. Not that Digital Distribution is a bad thing. Steam lets you pre-load games before release and unlocks them on launch day.

Rikusaki

Physical media is a waste of resources. It's bad for the environment.Rikusaki

Is not significant enough of a reason to be a primary or even secondary cause for the death of the physical medium. Only thing that matters would be cost and number of consumers reached. Everyone would agree that costs could go down as DD becomes more popular but the trade off, or potential trade off, is that fewer people are reached. No company in their right mind is going to just abandon the millions of consumers that are not downloading/streaming/e.t.c.

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"][QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

I'll take USB sticks delivered to me by pigeons over Digital Distribution. I'd rather have the cool box too. Not that Digital Distribution is a bad thing. Steam lets you pre-load games before release and unlocks them on launch day.

Jynxzor

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Can't wait to see the mass layoffs when the shutdown production facilities.

I lol'd at the desktop becoming obsolete. Come back when we can actually upgrade a laptop without buying a new one.

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"]

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/FindDealsOnline/article.aspx?post=00ca9b16-ff0d-4dd1-82dd-65869a823522

"...But there are some gifts on display this holiday season that will make losers of all of us. They are hot now, but technology cycles are so fast that these gadgets and gizmos are destined to be doorbusters today, and doorstoppers tomorrow."

"Video games on a disk. Be prepared for a flashing "Game Over" to come to the land of video game disks and the used-game market in the next few years. Manufacturers have been pushing digital downloads for a while now. Want even more proof? Check out OnLive, which doesn't even require a powerful console or computer to play the latest games."

Dilrod

I lol'd at the desktop becoming obsolete. Come back when we can actually upgrade a laptop without buying a new one.

Vesica_Prime

Riku, I believe you will have the last laugh one day as for consoles biting the dust in the wake of something like Onlive, but that day is very, very far off. There will definitely be a generation after this one and likely one after that....so maybe in a decade or more you will be correct.

I just think you're jumping the gun a little early. Of course for every new big thing, or major transition there are the early hyper enthusiastic supporters and you are definitely one of them in this case. Maybe just slow down a little cause you wont be making converts soon.

Now if you think something like this will be replacing PCs, pr PC gaming then you better not hold your breath.

[QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

I lol'd at the desktop becoming obsolete. Come back when we can actually upgrade a laptop without buying a new one.

BodyElite

[QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

I lol'd at the desktop becoming obsolete. Come back when we can actually upgrade a laptop without buying a new one.

BodyElite

There are entire industries that depend on desktop computers. Are you ****ing serious? :?

[QUOTE="BodyElite"][QUOTE="Vesica_Prime"]

I lol'd at the desktop becoming obsolete. Come back when we can actually upgrade a laptop without buying a new one.

sandbox3d

There are entire industries that depend on desktop computers. Are you ****ing serious? :?

[QUOTE="sandbox3d"]

[QUOTE="BodyElite"] I don't even own a computer... I do everything straight from my iPhone. The only ppl that use desktops are pc gamers, and there's not many of thoseBodyElite

There are entire industries that depend on desktop computers. Are you ****ing serious? :?

And how long until technology evolves to only laptop and "smart phones/iCrap" format with upgradability, speed, and reliability with no heat issues? It'll be a very freaking long time until stuff like that happens. I'm willing to bet never but I don't know how long or how far we will advance before we end up blowing up the Earth.

Riku, I believe you will have the last laugh one day as for consoles biting the dust in the wake of something like Onlive, but that day is very, very far off. There will definitely be a generation after this one and likely one after that....so maybe in a decade or more you will be correct.

I just think you're jumping the gun a little early. Of course for every new big thing, or major transition there are the early hyper enthusiastic supporters and you are definitely one of them in this case. Maybe just slow down a little cause you wont be making converts soon.

Now if you think something like this will be replacing PCs, pr PC gaming then you better not hold your breath.

sandbox3d

[QUOTE="sandbox3d"]

[QUOTE="BodyElite"] I don't even own a computer... I do everything straight from my iPhone. The only ppl that use desktops are pc gamers, and there's not many of thoseBodyElite

There are entire industries that depend on desktop computers. Are you ****ing serious? :?

Explain.

I understand that mobile devices are picking up rapidly, but in what way do these many industries using desktops need to "adapt to survive in the market", buddy? For what reason will all of a sudden these stationary desktops have to grow legs in order to survive?

DD and services like onlive wont take off until

1.Cloud becomes viable world wide.

2.ISP's stop being utter asshats.

I hope you arnt talking about buying games... PC g**ks don't buy games. Let's face it, most ppl only play one PC game, WOW. And I'm betting most are gaming in laptops because you don't need a rig to run itBodyElite

So why exactly is Steam reporting 200% increase in sales? Plus, it's funny that you're resorting to childish insults.

Hint: Steam doesn't sell WoW.

Interesting. Think I'd prefer this actually.

Hope to see it in the near future, but doubt it....

When I get bored with a game I sell it. How the hell am I going to sell it when is digital. It will occupy my hard disc for nothing.

I'm not for this at all

Even when you buy a PC game at the store your basically only buying a keycode. There rally is no reason to include discs anymore. And consoles always follow suit after PC. I believe its coming faster than people think.

Digital distribution didn't stop music from being sold on CDs.nethernova

[QUOTE="SPBoss"]As soon as I read led is better than plasma I lost all respect to the writer Plus, cloud computing is not going to take over so the stupidness in saying 'desktop pc's will be gone soon' is the biggest load of bullcrap I have ever heardRikusaki

He was talking about LCD with LED backlight which is not OLED. And as it stands right now there isn't a single OLED TV that can beat the best plasma in things like primary/secondary colours and colour accuracy. The OLED strong points are black levels but that does it no good when the green looks neon.

NVIDIATI

I don't think there are AMLOED screens that are larger than 5 inches. And (PM)OLED isn't as good.

Color accuracy is something that can be fixed with some adjustments and refinements.

The contrast and black levels are second to none, though. When the entire screen is black, you can't even tell it's on (because the pixels are actually turned off).

The difference:

• (PM)OLED: Lights up pixels according to row by column
• AMOLED: Lights up pixels individually (allows for much, much better contrast)

Blu Ray? :lol: This list aready fails

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"][QUOTE="SPBoss"]As soon as I read led is better than plasma I lost all respect to the writer Plus, cloud computing is not going to take over so the stupidness in saying 'desktop pc's will be gone soon' is the biggest load of bullcrap I have ever heardNVIDIATI

[QUOTE="nethernova"]Digital distribution didn't stop music from being sold on CDs.Rikusaki

You must really young then.

I still sometimes buy a CD.

Kids these days......I remember listening to cassette tapes on break and a teen asked me what was the thing I was holding in my hand......she didn't know what a cassette player was. Heck some kids these days don't know what a CD player is.

But many people still listen to CDs and record players are coming back into style.

[QUOTE="NVIDIATI"] He was talking about LCD with LED backlight which is not OLED. And as it stands right now there isn't a single OLED TV that can beat the best plasma in things like primary/secondary colours and colour accuracy. The OLED strong points are black levels but that does it no good when the green looks neon.

Rikusaki

I don't think there are AMLOED screens that are larger than 5 inches. And (PM)OLED isn't as good.

Color accuracy is something that can be fixed with some adjustments and refinements.

The contrast and black levels are second to none, though. When the entire screen is black, you can't even tell it's on (because the pixels are actually turned off).

The difference:

• (PM)OLED: Lights up pixels according to row by column
• AMOLED: Lights up pixels individually

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"]

[QUOTE="NVIDIATI"] He was talking about LCD with LED backlight which is not OLED. And as it stands right now there isn't a single OLED TV that can beat the best plasma in things like primary/secondary colours and colour accuracy. The OLED strong points are black levels but that does it no good when the green looks neon.

NVIDIATI

I don't think there are AMLOED screens that are larger than 5 inches. And (PM)OLED isn't as good.

Color accuracy is something that can be fixed with some adjustments and refinements.

The contrast and black levels are second to none, though. When the entire screen is black, you can't even tell it's on (because the pixels are actually turned off).

The difference:

• (PM)OLED: Lights up pixels according to row by column
• AMOLED: Lights up pixels individually

Right now a game is about 7.5-8 GB (to put this into perspective a DVD (like the one the Xbox 360 uses) can hold 9.5 GB and 1 GB of that is taken up with security information. Now, if you want to download that much on dial up just stop gaming all together. It will be less painful that way. On a high speed connection that's still a LOT of bandwidth. That will likely take you several hours on most connections. From the distribution stand point it IS less expensive than disk manufacturing (once you take into acount for packaging, storage, shiping etc. brick and morter stores are a very expensive distribution model). However, from a consumer stand point this can be a bad idea. Let's say a consumer has a cap on his/her bandwidth (most do) and that bandwidth cap is only 50 GB (not uncomon) this means that you've eaten up 16% of your bandwidth on a single game assuming it's only 8GB (and it'll probably be more since that 8GB cap on size is going to go away).

The other big problem? Gamestop. When you try to make the transition they will give less support (after all, guess who turns into a dinosour when digital download goes big?) to your products which make most of their sales in brick and morter stores. There's a reason why they don't even offer the latest and best games on PSN and XBL at all. This happens to be it.

I prefer retail over dd. My internet is absolute trash so downloading games is not an option.

[QUOTE="Chris_Williams"]

"sigh" alright we get it you like onlive

Rikusaki

Even when you buy a PC game at the store your basically only buying a keycode. There rally is no reason to include discs anymore. And consoles always follow suit after PC. I believe its coming faster than people think.

DaBrainz

If consoles were truly following after PC's every move, console games would already be standard with keycodes.

The only people that can even compete with me buying discs is Steam, and even still thats like once or twice a month. The sales are either really good, or for a **** game no one wanted in the first place.