RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

["Eric Tykwinski" <eric () truenet com>]

That's the case, but yeah, definitely off-topic...
http://www.gamestop.com/ps-vita/games/uncharted-golden-abyss-ps-vita/91436

Which would be on-topic, though.  If anyone knows of an OnLive box just to
check out the bandwidth usage, I would be interested.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300
F: 610-429-3222


-----Original Message-----
From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmccie () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:21 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

Now we are venturing OT but I thought the format was proprietary but you
still had to get the content on the memory via the glorious Internet? 
Are you saying I can go to Gamestop and buy a stick with whatever game I'm
looking for? Is that the plan?

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer



On 1/27/2012 8:13 AM, Eric Tykwinski wrote:
> The PS Vita still uses a proprietary memory card format, so it's not 
> just download only.
> The best example of download only would be OnLive, which basically is 
> a game system that only delivers on demand games.
>
> IMHO, it's the market that will determine whether this is the right 
> choice in the long run.
> It's a creative way to eliminate the used market and stop piracy, but 
> if the consumers don't join up like the PSP Go, it will eventually fail.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric Tykwinski
> TrueNet, Inc.
> P: 610-429-8300
> F: 610-429-3222
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmccie () gmail com]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:02 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.
>
> Here's your baseline: Sony Vita. They already tossed the UMD out with 
> the PSP-GO and that failed miserably. Now they are trying again to go 
> to digital only with the Vita. It's not the scale of PS3 or XBOX360 
> but it may be a good way to gauge the potential success of the concept.
>
> -Hammer-
>
> "I was a normal American nerd"
> -Jack Herer
>
>
>
> On 1/27/2012 7:34 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > It's already done on a similar scale when apple releases new software 
> > for
> their mobile devices.
> > Just don't do it if you are on a low cap plan (eg: mobile, satellite
etc).
> Caps will be the new market discriminator IMHO.
> > Jared Mauch
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Tei<oscar.vives () gmail com>   wrote:
> >
> > > Can internet in USA support that?   Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014
> > > and 30 million gamers start downloading a 20 GB files.  Would the 
> > > internet collapse like a house of cards?.