Later this month various games industry luminaries will be gathering in London to discuss the future of digital downloads. Traditional
retailers will be watching very closely to see what will be said here because it may just give us an idea of how the industry will chance the way it delivers games to us.
Over the last few months there has been a definite gear-up towards more download support with the launch of the PSP Go, Sony and Microsoft establishing a 120Gb baseline for console storage (lets just ignore all this XBox 360 Arcade nonsense) as well as launching 250Gb SKUs and Nintendo upping the SD support on the Wii to 32Gb.
With all the major players working hard on improving their download services in line with their boosts in storage there is only really one way to go.
The final nail in the coffin is the enormous growth in the PC download market which (as wr would expect from the PC) is leading the way in terms of the technology and choice of sources.
At the London Games Conference, analysts and gaming bigwigas alike will get together to discuss the future of digital distribution. The speakers will include Mark Gerhard from Jagex, Kristian Segerstrale from Playfish, Nick Pili from Sega, Pete Edwards from PlayStation Home and Neil Thompson from Xbox. the opening address will be given by none other thatn the UK’s Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey.
I’d watch what is said here boys and girls.
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