I think more likely it'd compromise mid tier and niche games really badly. I wonder how music sales are for their equivalent versus the big pop stuff.
Not the ones I'm most interested in (usually), and PSN and especially XBLA games have been of a smaller size and lower scale. There IS an issue about a growing rift between AAA and lower budget titles that wasn't the case before. That, and I am mainly interested in handhelds for lower end games, but unfortunately Nintendo's DD set up is kind of crap and Sony overcharges on cards, so in neither case would I really want to go all out on DD anyway.
If this is all for real it better be $599.99 instead. That single moment where enthusiasm deflates and all that's left are endless mocking and a few diehard fans sticking around anyway.
Uhhh, maybe, but that requires an amount of gaming savvy still. Most of those people are actually probably more likely to just go to Walmart and buy the system and a few games that interest them, and if they have trouble setting it up they'd probably take it right back and forget the system exists. Nevermind that the people who feed the used game system do so to buy more new games, and in any case for Microsoft they get ad revenue, so more eyeballs period helps there.
Remember the PS3 outage?
It rendered the game Bionic Commando on PS3 unplayable.
This is why part of this info is horseshit
Yeah, at worst always online is PROBABLY just that there's so many features that the system feels barebones without it, like a house without electricity these days... but you're not booted from the house or anything, you could just read, sleep, whatever that doesn't require electricity constantly flowing in. Similarly you'd be able to play single player games, just no online or new games added.