![]() When it takes one hour to install Gran Turismo 5? I don't know. Why did I get a console if the games need to be installed? That really sucks. And all the new games today also need to be installed. "I only buy the disc if I want a console game, but everything else I download from Steam. "I hate to have the disc myself," Patti said. Patti also singled out the need to install modern console games as an annoyance - echoing similar complaints made by Twisted Metal maker David Jaffe. There are still a lot of people who buy their games that way. In terms of money it's still bigger than download. So many publishers are pushing and there are so many channels which just won't die easily. When your mum and dad start to download things, that's when it's everybody who does it. "There will be discs for a long time from now, but the world has adopted download. Patti agreed with Hirai, but insisted the world was turning towards digital. To think everything will be downloaded in two years, three years or even ten years from now is taking it a little bit to the extreme." "There's always going to be requirement for a business of our size and scope to have a physical medium. "We do business in parts of the world where network infrastructure isn't as robust as one would hope," former Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai said in August last year. ![]() ![]() While Microsoft has remained quiet on its next Xbox plans, Sony has indicated its next PlayStation will not be digital-only. Driving a truck to Japan just to get it delivered to people when they can get it from the net? Hopefully the new consoles will embrace the download space even more." I don't understand how anyone can make money out of this. ![]() "Driving discs in a big van all over the world is really inefficient. "The retail model has always been and still is broken, from a developer's point of view," Patti told Eurogamer at the GameCity6 festival. Patti is yet to reveal Playdead's next game, but told Eurogamer it will almost certainly be downloadable - something he's perfectly happy with because, in his view, discs are outdated. It was later released on PC and PlayStation 3. Limbo, a digitally distributed game that launched last year on Xbox Live Arcade, wowed critics and proved an immense commercial success. ![]() That's according to Dino Patti, boss of Limbo developer Playdead games. The retail video game model "has always been and still is broken". ![]()
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