If you live close enough to a data server, and if you've got a 5+mb connection you're pretty much going to be, then all the latency is going to be in 'the last mile', which they've said is what they plan for.
While the post's question about hardware specs is moot, hardware advances mean whatever they've got in the data centers now won't be the same equipment come go live in Winter, hardware is going to be the problem with the service. I'm sure plenty of people will live with th...
Those data centers still require all the hardware, so the GFX makers will still be selling product, now they aren't just restricted to Console or PC gamers, pretty much anyone with a TV could be playing Crysis, so potentially there's a larger audience using your products. Not only that but developers are no longer limited to what is an affordable home setup, Quad SLI setup? done. Sure, there's a cost associated to that, which might entail a tiered service. Then there's the lack of upgrades ne...
Saying that most of the time high-def will run around 2mbps, meaning a comcast cap of 250GB a month gives you about 280 hrs of gaming per month.
Obviously that excludes any additional net surfing you might do.
Updated the article with this info.
David Perry is the CCO at Acclaim who twittered about the umd-less PSP in the first place.
Nothing to do with SCEA.
I mean if the game doesn't check if it is pirated, then how do they know how much revenue they've lost to piracy?
Or are they just assuming every downloaded/torrented copy is equal to and totally constitutes an otherwise valid physical sale?
That's not to say PSP piracy isn't a big problem (GT only shifted 350k units? wth?) but I'd say that crck's points and Remote Play have more to do with poor sales on the handheld.