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June 19th, 2008 @ 19:39
Sony President David Reeves has said at the DevStation developer conference in London that the “PS3 install base is growing faster than PS2’s was at this point in its lifecycle.”
Obviously buoyed by this fact, Reeves began to outline Sony’s vision of the future for games and gaming.
“The key to the future is the PlayStation Network. Games put straight onto PSN are the big opportunity,” he said.
“We do believe that the disc-based delivery system will fall as the power of the network base rises. At the same time the overall industry growth will continue to go upwards as we push out into emerging markets.”
“What we don’t see is an overall decline in the market. This is a golden era of video games.”
Thanks MCV.
By Mike Bowden
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June 19th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hmm… so we know this is true of SCEE and not the other two markets. I wonder what trick they’ve used here - comparing one month of sales with the same month for the PS2?
No, I reckon I have it. They’ve compared percentage increase in the install base of the two. PS2 goes from 15.0m to 16.0m (6.6% increase), PS3 goes from 7.0m to 7.5m (7.1% increase).
I am the stats king!
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(For the pedantic among you, the numbers are just examples
June 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
“Games put straight onto PSN are the big opportunity”
Please do this and I will whore your console
June 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
500GB HDD’s please Sony.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
never going to happen
probably cheaper to get a ps3 then fit a 500gb hdd
June 19th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
“We do believe that the disc-based delivery system will fall as the power of the network base rises.”
That is all great for sony and the developers(decreased manufacturing/boxing etc, more profit (no middle-man), and DRM locked to the users account(with limited downloads too)
The end users get the shaft though. Download games are usually not cheaper than retail when they should be. When the end user gets bored of a retail game they trade it in for a new title to reduce the impact of the high(IMHO) game prices. Downloaded games are DRM locked to your personal account which rules out any kind of selling of the used game when the user is bored of it. The DRM also prevents current legal methods of moving the game to another system after a certain number of downloads have been depleted. I have 3 PS3s and have to use up 3 downloads to be able to play in all my rooms.
Downloads at this point are limited to smaller games too. Bigger games need blu-ray. I don’t see me having the patience or wanting to take up my internet bandwidth for a 50 gig download to get a game (unless the price is much lower than retail).
I purposely bought GT5 at gamestop instead of buying and downloading it through PSN because of these restrictions. Same price and I get more control over the game I purchased.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I can’t really see why you would get shafted. Sure downloading games would mean you would lose the ability to trade in those old games but once downloadable games picks up prices will fall. If Sony take steams example I can’t honestly not wanting to use a service like that.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Full downloadable games are fine… as long as they’re cheaper than retail or have stuff that isn’t in the retail version for free.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I wish they’d do more with downloadable stuff. It’s a gold mine, really.
I’d love to see Okami available to download on the PSN. It’ll never happen.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I use steam all the time so if Sony started offering full retail games like steam do then
they have just bought themselves a customer.
I think the reason they still don’t offer the downloadable versions cheaper is that not that many people do yet. Once it picks up more I think the prices will fall.
Personally if they offered there games for £25 to 30 I would be fine with that.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
As an end user it’s not me that gets shafted by not being able to trade - it’s the publishers. I only have a limited budget for games - if I can’t trade, I can’t buy as many new titles, simple as. I’m betting I’m not the only one that relies on trades/sales to be able to expend my catalogue, either.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
My games collection is always thin due to trading.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:11 am
@ xStatiCa
Good post! 100% agreed!