Kim

Sequel? There already was one: Total Carnage (I owned an arcade cab with both PCBs for a while). It was at least a spin-off, if not sequel.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10167

not to get pedantic but:

>PSP owners would pay a monthly fee to gain access to a library of new and archived games on the PlayStation Store

Usually that's referred to as a subscription service or 'all you can eat' subscription. Rental generally refers to a per-game fee paid for limited time access.

Seems that the model is dependant on a large disparity between the number of 'client-servers' with "Idle bandwidth" (and mips and storage for that matter) and the number of client-consumers.

Perhaps the usage will never catch up with the growth of idle bw/mips/Gbytes, but it seems that the discussion should at least address whether the curves intersect, and how close they need to come before P2P model starts to clog up.

We face the same problem with games as well (surprise, surprise - it's universal to all media) Another way of stating this is that consumers need (and thus value) editorial/programming/merchandising. Digital distribution and on-demand will just mean that decoupling *may* have the opportunity to be decoupled from the content, and perhaps be provided by a different source(s). For example, you are into cooking shows? Someone sees that niche, creates a cooking enthusiast blog/site/portal, and points you to the best shows on iTunes as well as other networks. Maybe they get a cut, maybe they sell ads until they have enough clout to demand a cut. who knows. While you've pointed out a problem, that's just another way of saying that you've pointed out an opportunity. Someone can step in and do a better job of providing consumers with the "lazy feed" they want.