Xbox 720 going digital ?

[liamnic2]

yo guys

I was looking around and found out that the next Xbox might be totally digital, meaning you download all your games. What do you think ?

I even saw something about games only be able to be played on the 1 xbox, meaning you cant buy or sell pre-owned. What do you think ?

If this happened I might just go 100% PC, games are cheaper etc.. I could not imagine waiting hours for a game to download everytime I bought a game.
Plus how would they even store all the games. You could not fit 20+ games on a 250GB Xbox.

 

[Kalisnoir]

yo guys

I was looking around and found out that the next Xbox might be totally digital, meaning you download all your games. What do you think ?

I even saw something about games only be able to be played on the 1 xbox, meaning you cant buy or sell pre-owned. What do you think ?

If this happened I might just go 100% PC, games are cheaper etc.. I could not imagine waiting hours for a game to download everytime I bought a game.
Plus how would they even store all the games. You could not fit 20+ games on a 250GB Xbox.

I find your post quite contradictory....

First of all, pretty much most PC games now days can not be traded in due to 1 time only CD Keys.

Second I download all of my games fine, with unlimited bandwidth and fast speeds becoming the norm, it's not a problem (hell, I live in a village and I download at 7.9mb/s

Third, I manage to store all of the games I wish to store on my PC just fine (Which is a lot).

I've not bought a physical copy of a game since World of Warcraft vanilla. Whether you like it or not digital is reigning king and is surpassing physical sales, to swear allegiance to the disk would be treachery!

Console games by nature are smaller than their PC counterparts and it wouldn't surprise me if they utilize the quick swap HDD's that the 360 has just with much bigger capacities.

 

[steaky360]

I'd like to think the new Consoles WILL be 100% digital. I've very much enjoyed clicking a button on steam and waiting a wee while (I don't enjoy Kalisnoir's 7.9 download, I get max 2Mb - it still does not take long!) and then playing the game I bought. From my experience with my 360 and the downloadable games I have played so far its been an easy process. As long as they can increase the catalogue size it should be good, might even get more backwards compatibility that way?

As for selling second hand games, I'm a bit of a hoarder in that respect and don't think I've sold ANY of my second hand games for many years now.

From what I've understood the idea would be for the consoles to operate on a 'like steam' basis. Where your username controls the games you own and you can play them/delete them etc. at your hearts content. So storage wouldn't necessarily be an issue, although I'd like the idea Kaslisnoir proposed becoming a reality (hot-swap drives) but I'm not sure Microsoft/Sony are quite there yet, it might depend on the 'version' of the console you get (I'd imagine you'd need an internal + external [hot-swap] drive) thus making them more expensive to begin with?

Bah, its all conjecture until some hard facts come out about them all. Either way, I'm sticking to my shiny new pc for now.

 

[BestUsername]

I find your post quite contradictory....

First of all, pretty much most PC games now days can not be traded in due to 1 time only CD Keys.

Second I download all of my games fine, with unlimited bandwidth and fast speeds becoming the norm, it's not a problem (hell, I live in a village and I download at 7.9mb/s

Third, I manage to store all of the games I wish to store on my PC just fine (Which is a lot).

I've not bought a physical copy of a game since World of Warcraft vanilla. Whether you like it or not digital is reigning king and is surpassing physical sales, to swear allegiance to the disk would be treachery!

Console games by nature are smaller than their PC counterparts and it wouldn't surprise me if they utilize the quick swap HDD's that the 360 has just with much bigger capacities.

Nah I don't think he contradicted himself. Reading between the lines I believe his point is that one of the advantages of the 360 over the PC is the ability to purchase the hard copy and then sell it, or buy a cheap (cheaper than PC new) second-hand hard copy. Another advantage is that with console games you can install them to as many consoles as you want, whereas with a lot of PC games, due to DRM from Steam or whatever (EA for example), you cannot do that. So with these advantages waning I think he'd rather just plunge into the (more complicated) PC world.

Having said that, I agree with the rest of what you said.

I liken this to going from CD to MP3 or book to ebook. Do I sort of miss getting the nice shiny CD, or reading the lyrics (for other people - I hate most music with words). I kinda miss reading a book, lending it to someone else and then talking about it.

On the other hand, using my kindle I feel a lot more liberated; it's practical: I can take it to the gym, I can put my Uni lectures as pdfs on it and study while at the gym or walking around.


And I think the same applies here. If you don't have the physical copy it appears a little disconcerting as you feel you don't have the game (when you first start using PC's). On the other hand, there's a saying about "it matters not what you have, but what you are", and I still get to play online with my friends (and Steam is better than Xbox Live and PSN).

The advantages PC's have over consoles is staggering. There may come a time when consoles cease to exist (I mean what is a console? A PC with a simplified interface, right? Minus a lotta features). With the erosion of physical shizzle I think the distinctions will begin to die.

Anyway I spammed enough. I recommend you just get a PC. We all need PC's, so instead of banging out 200 quid for a home office one, sling out another 200 of dem big ones and not only will studies be so much faster, with fewer crashes, but you can slay some muthas in a videogame. My old pc cost 450 and the GPU on that was more powerful than the current console gens...