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Nate - it's also OVER TWO YEARS after their competitor came out with in/cross -game messaging built-in out of the gate.

the PS3 came out a year later and is more expensive than the xbox360, and still doesn't have a basic feature they had in 200_5_. technology, hell *competition* isn't supposed to work that way.

being frustated at Sony taking so damn long with in-game XMB is more than justified. its actually offensive for them to expect the consumer being OK with all the waiting. name another brand that would try and pull that off and survive.



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you said it.

my folding@home work units just broke 700, and my team of fellow PS3 owners is in the top 900 in the world.

fine colossal, next you are going to define a 'good' as something physical, correct?

i'm not renting WarHawk. and i won't be renting an Xbox Original or a Wii Virtual Console game. yes, my hard drive/memory card could go bad, but so could your disc.

i'm sorry but you made an absolutely absurd comment, stating Valve's buggy software and your brother RROD experience as proof that a digital distribution market is only a "dream".

it's not imminent, its here.



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Colossal, changing subjects would fail you in any debate class. see my other post regarding buying vs. renting.

the point is digital distribution is not only already here, its already mainstream. Valve's software bug, and your RROD not withstanding.




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ColossalHat,

your argument is based on on avenue of digital distribution, and you dismiss Xbox Live because of a hardware failure. if you like debating, you need to go to debate school.

iTunes = digital distribution
Movies on Demand = digital distribution
GameTap = digital distribution
Pay per View = digital distribution
XBL Arcade/PSN = digital distribution
XBL Movies = digital distribution

what did you get all your downloadable content on a floppy disc?

be upset at Valve all you want, but your "argument" that they are "holding up" the notion of digital distribution is beyond laughable.






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of course they *thought* about it Noshino, but they didn't implement it before a company that has NO movies did.

if Sony were really interested in digital distribution they would have been in an excellent position to (especially with user installable HDDs), but there are obvious conflicting interests with the physical format they are introducing.



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but its definitely not OK to get up and change discs right Noshino?




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by opening their eyes to what their competition is already doing?

well. partly international licensing, but mostly the fact that the Blu-Ray format is aimed heavily at the US market.

i'd say the model is pretty much like this:

you BUY movies you LOVE. you RENT movies you LIKE.

usually there's a tons more of the latter than the former. as there a millions of movies you only need to see once.

but physically getting your ass to a store to RENT a movie is about as archaic as it gets. Netflix was a big part of changing that, and even they are already starting to move on.



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