No. Internal. My past couple of 2 TB HDDs have been internal and the price has been decreasing at a remarkable rate.Originally Posted by Bolivar
You have a point about the content inflating alongside the media, but that really introduces another problem I wonder about in terms of how the hell the industry is going to be able to keep up without adjusting their pricing model.In any case, I think you missed my point: those 60 gigs went to not even a flash of a fragment of my PS3 collection. Keep in mind that I buy a lot of PS3 exclusives, and there's a growing circle of games that have filled up a double-layered Blu Ray (50GBs), and many more that have either filled up a single layer or enter double-layer territory. This is all compounded by the fact that games are getting bigger and bigger every year, and they'll be even larger next generation. If I had to choose between downloading the 50 Gigabytes of Metal Gear Solid 4 or buying the disc, I would buy the disc every time. And that gets back to your demand dilemma above.
While I think ONLive is going to flop in the long term, I do think cloud stuff is going to be incorporated to fix a lot of these problems. If more companies learn to manage their game data like Blizzard it will be even less of a problem. You can download the WoW trial and it can load in the background. It will start by installing things you MUST have and continue loading as you play giving priority to things that are important to the location you are in.Being that console gaming is many times more popular than PC gaming, I think it shows that in this medium, the playing field is not amenable as movies or music. When I'm having people over, we may want to play a couple races of Motorstorm, do some couch co-op of Killzone 3, go online with Call of Duty, or experiment a little bit in Little Big Planet. We simply can't do that if I have to decide which game to delete and then wait a few hours to download several, if not 20-30 GB. This is where Streaming comes back into the picture, but I think that's another topic.
A combination of better internet, larger storage, cloud computing and that type of smart streaming tech will end up fixing a lot of these problems.
I'm with you in every way except that I don't think Assassin's Creed and iOS games are mutually exclusive. But currently the streaming and digtal pickings aren't enough for me either.Back to the original topic: I love Steam, and my PSP buying/gaming habits are very similar. So that's two of my favorite platforms where my content is exclusively digital. But digital just can't satisfy all of my gaming needs, and there's tens of millions of people who agree with me. We're not going to stop playing Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, and Metal Gear simply because "Match the Cakes" is now $0.99 on the iOS App Store!
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