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PS3 to offer downloadable games?

by Steven Williamson on 21 February 2006, 11:13

Tags: PlayStation 3, Sony Computers Entertainment Europe (NYSE:SNE), PS3

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Downloadable games on an 80GB HDD



As the launch date draws nearer, the rumours surrounding Sony's PS3 online are gathering momentum.

How exactly will the PS3 online service compete with Microsoft's Xbox live? The latest speculation suggests that we may be able to download games from Sony's live HUB service.

In an interview with Japanese site Watch Impress, on the subject of downloadable games, Tetsuhiko Yatsuda of SOE Asia, said that,"games would be a lot cheaper compared to retail versions." his move by Sony would combat game piracy, a widespread problem across Asia, and give gamers rapid access to the games they want to play.

The SCE president has already told us that the initial hard drive, to be sold seperately, will have an 80Gb capacity, four times the space on the Xbox 360 hard drive. However, without knowing how much space a PS3 game will take up, it's hard to guess exactly how many downloadable games you could fit on the PS3. Would an 80Gb hard drive be enough? Would this mean that the downloadable game service would not be available on launch?

The rumours should all be 'put to bed' at E3 in May, can't wait!

Source: Engadget


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Posted by TiG - Wed 22 Feb 2006 09:35
and why not?, thats the most sensible thing i've heard in a long time. Plus i can sit there and get a urge to buy something i just need to sit there turn on my ps3 and download it to the HDD?….

Makes sense to me.

TiG
Posted by Capt Doufos - Wed 22 Feb 2006 10:15
I used HDadvance with my PS2 to copy my games over to the HD because I am too lazy to get them out the cases, and games are normally 1.5-3gb in size. Surely the PS3 games arn't going to be any smaller, and over the course of ownership of a console you easily rack up 30 games +

If you take 30 PS2 games they would be between 70-90gb, SO it may do for the average person, but I would imagine there will be people who will need alot more. No doubt sony will release HD Upgrades later down the line.
Posted by autopilot - Wed 22 Feb 2006 13:54
I'm not saying its a bad idea, in fact its the future of digital media delivery for both games, music and movies.

The problem is, especially with Sony involved, is that the beggers don't really pass the savings down to the consumer. The DVD pressing and distro costs are gone (apart from the server) and the middle man can be completely cut out. Also, the fact that you wont have anyway of trading games second hand to recoup you investment and fund another purchace. This mean even more revenue for the publishers. Not to mention the extra revenue from killing piracy. We will see a decent and fair reduction in price? I hope so, but if Steam, and Itunes etc for that matter, is anything to go buy then i doubt it :/

I great to not have to pop down the shop, but i actually like having something to hold and own and trade etc. I would not mind given that up if i really thought i would be saving a decent amount of money.