1 edit | Perhaps.. ...instead of giving away the hardware, the company teams up with ISPs to make a gaming package that blends in the cost of the account, hardware internet access and the appropriate bandwidth necessary per month.
This would lower overall costs for both company and consumer, allow Onlive to focus on making sure their content system runs smoothly, give ISPs a new customer base and control content delivery while adherring to the ESRB rating system.
If EA, Sony and others were smart, they should jump onboard to be able to use this 'gaming portal' method for releasing games and other content at a much lower cost. This could be seen as a massive "green" initative in that plastics are not needed to be manufactured, and at the same time it could prevent their works from being illegally distributed.
On the flip side of this, it would require ISPs to upgrade their infrastructures to (I would guess) some sort of FTTH standard, in order to reduce lag and be able to significantly increase uploading bandwidth. |
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| And thus you begin segmenting the internet just how it should not be.
If it cannot work in an open system, then it should not be used on the internet. |
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| So, nothing should ever evolve, just for the sake of keeping something open?
You have zero faith in engineers.  |
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| Why do you ask me to have faith in engineers to work with segmenting and yet you can't have that same faith in those engineers making it work without segmenting? My faith benefits the consumer. Your faith benefits stock jockey's. I think I will keep my faith.
They ARE dumbpipes and need to act accordingly, or be regulated into it. When it serves them, they want to let the market decide. So then let the market decide. By the very nature of the network and the very nature of the market the more people that get on the service the more it will be saturated and the more people will go else where that is not so saturated. Thus the network will balance itself. If they want more customers, then they add more bandwidth. THAT is how the market should work.
The problem is these DUMBPIPES don't want to invest to make that market model work. They want to take the current expenditures and try to cram more and more on the pipe while introducing new revenue streams and use "network management" as the bandage to do so. |
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