“Make no mistake”, SCEE boss Andrew House told GI.biz, “when you’re looking at PS3 games and you’re seeing the shift in the sheer size of the data that’s becoming available, the packaged media business is not going away any time soon”.
The “shift” he’s talking about is the number of people realising their PS3s can connect to the internet, connect to the PSN, then buy games off it.
“I think there’s been an overstatement there potentially, and then a backlash to that – but I don’t think we were really responsible for that overstatement, so we’re not really part and parcel of the backlash, if that makes sense.”
Not really, no! But hey, if Blu-Rays and UMDs are going to be coming down the pipeline for a whiles yet, you got your point across.
Packaged media “not going away any time soon” – House [GI.biz]
Luke
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 11:19 PMi know where sony is going with digital distrabution but not everyone has access to either high speed wireless internet for or ADSL2+.
Hips
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 12:22 AMneither do people have access to unlimited downloads, or the US PSN store, the aussie store is a joke content wise by comparison
Marco Krischer
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:17 AMblu ray games/movies down the pipe? that could be up to 50 gigs of data…
glennc
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 4:14 PMreally, you don’t say. what else would sony say but blu-ray blu-ray blu-ray
otherwise it is pretty short sighted of them because i will happily buy full games online. there is a benefit to it for us lazy couch potatoes who don’t feel like getting up all the time to change a game disk. i quite enjoy the fact that Trials HD and BF1943 are on my 360 HDD.
if the savings in freight, packaging are passed on to the consumer then i would download. unfortunately it also gives them a monopoly over their market at which point the saving will NOT be passed on.
Reece McPherson
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 6:02 PMDespite how lazy you are, not being able to change the disk is a bad sign.
Physical Media beats Digital every time, maybe except for those lame Arcade games.