Kaz Hirai believes networks aren't ready to deliver large game data
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "what better wait to wish him well in his future endeavors than to recall our favorite moments from his time at Sony? That’s what we’re doing today in a special KOTRC that looks back at the man, the legend, the Kaz."
My favorite moment is when he turned the Sony ship around resulting in almost the utter destruction of their opponent in every important metric you can come up with that shut the mouths of the opposition and the naysayers that Sony would not be in the driver's seat. Resulting in worthless metrics from other parties to cover up the truth.
My most favorite moment.
I have a lot of favorite Kaz Hirai moments, but it's inappropriate to mock him at this retirement.
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Former Sony CEO and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has retired. He will remain a senior adviser for the company following 35 years of service.
he deserves to just kick back on a beach somewhere earning 20%.. Thank you for all you have done Kaz.
In this weeks episode Kiaun will discuss Sony's State Of Play Event,Wolfenstein Young Bloods has a release date along with other details about the game,Starfield and Elders Scroll 6 will not be at E3 ,The Last Of Us Part 2 could release towards the end of the year,Monolith Soft could be working on the next Zelda game,the Sega Genesis Mini will come with 40 games. All these stories and more in episode 95.
The psp go was the test that lead to this decision. I love the psp go because it is so compact with awesome portability.
Yet Steam is quite successful....
Digital only content failed for Sony and the PSP, yet it is successful for Valve(Steam)
Translation:
Depending on your business model, it can be successful or not.
Sony's business model was not viable for this.
So yes, Kaz is correct. It is NOT possible at this time FOR SONY.
"While we might not see a digital-only model in the near future, we could see one by 2016 - which is when the PS3's 10-year life cycle matures."
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No....we won't be ready to download 50+ gigs in 4 years either.
People have been saying this for months. My internet connection takes 45 minutes to an 1 hour to DL a 750MB game demo, close to 2 hours of more for anything a gig or bigger.
Now imagine people with my 750kpbs DL rate (On a VERY good day) trying to download Killzone 3 or Uncharted 3 ON launch day, with those sorts of speeds. Not only would it hog bandwidth on your end and on the servers end, but you'd be waiting for at least 10 hours, and that's a generous guesstimate.
No, the world is not ready for Digital-only distribution, nor will it be till at least 70% of gamers have internet connections at or above 5Mbps.
I don't think we will see a console that goes digital only for quite sometime. Why? Because it is a different market and it wouldn't work if it was digital only.
For birthdays and holidays parents buy physical copies for their children and not digital coupons. Sure if it was digital only they would adapt, but why change when they dont need to?
Then comes to another issue with the stores built around games(like Gamestop) who will fight tooth and nail to keep consoles from going completely digital.
Personally I think that Sony should offer all of their 1st party games as a download. Knock off $20 from the retail price day 1 and call it a day. They would substantially increase their profits(no selling a game to Gamestop for $15 and they sell it for $60). Plop in a 1tb drive(dirt cheap for them to do so once the market bounces back) and it would be perfect.
I download about 95% of my games from Steam/etc. on my PC. I have around 45 games currently on my 1tb HDD(none on my 120gb SSD) and it is only roughly 30% full including the 10k pictures, dozens of movies, and programs I also ahve on it.