No more disks? No more consoles?

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

Saw this today on BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7962180.stm

What I really would like to know is how are you going to pay for this?
If it is a pay per play system then you could end up paying more for a game than you ever would have buying it outright.
What happens if you don't have internet access & want to play your favourite game, which isn't stored locally on your machine?
This is a bad idea! Competition in a market it what drives innovation to ensure product differentiation. It takes away the desire for manufacturers to produce a bigger & better gaming experience.
I can see the appeal to the game makers if they got rid of the different consoles. They then only have to produce 1 version of the game, saving them money in development costs.

[[JiF]zougathefist]

Curse you gav, I just saw this story and was about to post it

[Sir Die-a-lot]

Yeah, a posting war.

[pissboy[LPANE]]

This isn't more vaporware from the Phantom Labs guys is it? Maybe they're trying to get their stock prices up to a cent.

edit: no, it isn't thankfully.

[Sir Die-a-lot]

With the existing framework of broadband distribution, these thing won't be able to make you play more than a flash game, a low res game as PacMan or interactive quizzes where you click yes, no, left or right.

I can't see games like BF2142, L4D or Crysis played on that at full frame rate and resolution.

[[JiF]zougathefist]

They claim to have a new system of data compression that will allow full spec games to be played via streaming
I am fairly sceptical tho, I like to have a disk

[Sir Die-a-lot]

Well, call me nay sayer but I'm highly skeptical.