As part of Sony's plans for the launch of its next-gen PlayStation 3 console later this year, the company has started planning the PS3 E-Distribution Initiative, to help both first and third-party developers digitally distribute its games via download, directly to the PS3.
The service, which will clearly compete with Microsoft's successfully launched Xbox Live Arcade service for the Xbox 360, is currently in the pre-production stages, and Gamasutra got a chance to talk to the project's John Hight, Director of External Production at SCEA Santa Monica, about his role heading up the project.
Firstly, Hight discussed some of the advantages of PlayStation 3 E-Distribution from Sony's point of view, noting: "Certainly being able to sell globally on-line makes it easier to reach international and remote markets. On the business side, it also lowers our cost of sales and eliminates inventory risk. It should help curtail used
game sales and piracy."
Again, Sony talks about something that in theory won't be put into practice for another couple of years. Show the current PS3 games. The majority of gamers just care about the games Sony.
I really wanna see sony follow through on this stuff i have a feeling they will, some of the stuff they've done ith the psp gives me hope but i was also supposed to be able to dowload music online to my PS2 as well as web-browsing
I really think they are underestimating the difficulty of making this distributon network. Or maybe like everything else they do they have to put on a front. I hope this works the way the say it will I just have no faith in sony executives making truthful statements. Good luck sony!!!!
So if one can download the games, movies and so on
WHERE IS THE FREAKING EXPENSIVE NONSTANDARD BETABLURAYPLAYER FOR THEN?
I already typed many times. This is coming in a few years. Not now. Bandwith is allright but not for 8 GB games to wait too long. But in a few years a game of 8 GB will be downloaded in notime. Then we will see it happen.
And then BetaBluRay is totally useless. Video you just stream from your online moviecentre, games you pay with Microsoft Marketplace points.
it's already been set in stone... quite a few games for the psp is using an R&D version of the EDI. Capcom's megeman powered up to be on and Locoroco... already in the latest psp update they have it that game demos and vedio can be downloaded and distributed via the psp's site... thus taking this into light it's a safes bet to say that this will launch... keep in mind that at the begining the Full distribition of 8 gig games may come about in a year or 2. but small games like ps1 or ps2 or maybe even psp games will come about in the start...... i believe the article here was speakin in light of them having an xbox live arcade like. thing hence the reason why both first and third party and indepented developers who want to get there little projects published on the ps3 can have that done by registering there project on the site that they listed... so for right now i feel that sonys prime object is starting the system with small games that could very well be placed up into something big... and the psp will also hel ease that process