Is Holographic Media the Future for Next Gen?

[SharedProphet]

By 2011 this will be extremely outdated. Everything will be downloaded off the internet... anything that makes you get up off the couch and swap discs will be seen as archaic in the extreme.

The Internet is far too flawed in terms of the amount of data its backbones can support for what you say to become possible.

It's already happening; Netflix instant watch, iTunes movies, video on demand, etc. are beginning to make Blu-Ray obsolete. A new disc-based format in 2011 would be a joke.

 

[Sparrow]

i could have sworn a fellow Escapist did a post on this. anyways its going to come down to cost. if its expensive then it might not catch on.

This. All over.

 

[Zer_]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/pioneer-shows-off-16-layer-400gb-blu-ray-disc-affirms-compatibi/

But I must say, how the hell are studios gonna make enough content to require those things? Heavy Rain only uses 50 Gigs, and it has taken some combined 200 years of work (from multiple people, obviously).

Don't underestimated Kojima.

Yeah! Kojima can then record more of his own farts at ridiculous bit rates and slap 'em into the next MGS game... Oh wait.

 

[Silva]

It's already happening; Netflix instant watch, iTunes movies, video on demand, etc. are beginning to make Blu-Ray obsolete. A new disc-based format in 2011 would be a joke.

You failed to see my point. All of what you are saying here is true. The backbones of the Internet are only being put under more pressure by all of this. Add continuously downloading games on a worldwide scale, and you're just asking for a collapse.

This is all a fantasy for people who live in the city, who don't even realise that real raw resources go into running the Internet; maintaining it, upgrading it, and expanding it. It is far too expensive to become popular. And apart from anything else, these resources are too limited to waste endlessly on something as trivial as gaming.

 

[LifeSarcastic]

sounds like fun. Imagine what that means for new computers.

 

[kaiZie]

the bit that really got me thinking was the 10 cents a gig...so a 500 gig disk is 50 dollars, or about (at current rates) £40/£45. Which probably means that games for consoles using this holographic system could be upwards of like $70/£65 Would you wanna pay that kinda money just for a game that in one month you won't even care about? sure, atm £40 is alot, but if the price does go up then the industry might take a big hit...unless it's so awesome that you have to spend that money because you end up inside the game...like VR or something.

well I guess only time will tell.

 

[Lazzi]

After blue ray is standard and we can find it in nintendo products.

 

[CrystalShadow]

It's already happening; Netflix instant watch, iTunes movies, video on demand, etc. are beginning to make Blu-Ray obsolete. A new disc-based format in 2011 would be a joke.

You failed to see my point. All of what you are saying here is true. The backbones of the Internet are only being put under more pressure by all of this. Add continuously downloading games on a worldwide scale, and you're just asking for a collapse.

This is all a fantasy for people who live in the city, who don't even realise that real raw resources go into running the Internet; maintaining it, upgrading it, and expanding it. It is far too expensive to become popular. And apart from anything else, these resources are too limited to waste endlessly on something as trivial as gaming.

The backbone has nothing to do with it.

The main internet links are hardly at risk of being overloaded.

No, the internet suffers from the 'last mile' problem.

99% of all internet infrastructure issues are related to connecting the end user to the backbone.

The cost of laying a mile of cable is relatively constant regardless of if that cable carries 1,000,000 gigabytes, or 1 megabyte...
(sure, a larger cable might be more expensive, but not by all that much.)
This means connecting 1 person's home to the internet is relatively speaking a lot more expensive than connecting one country to another, or one city to another...