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Having already demonstrated its digital ambitions by releasing PSPgo, the world’s first ever digital-only console, could Sony be about to embark on another digital first in the console market? Colin Sebastian of analysts Lazard Capital Market thinks that PSN will play a large part in Sony’s presentation, including a possible …
Read More »Modern Warfare hits Games on Demand
Microsoft’s Games on Demand service on Xbox Live has seen a very high-profile entry added to its listings – Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game has been given a premium price of $39.99 and weights in at a quite considerable 6GB. At the time of writing a …
Read More »No full-price games-on-demand for PS3
Sony has ruled out a PS3 games-on-demand service for the PlayStation Network, leaving Microsoft with a clear run on trialling the ins and outs of a potentially retail-free future for software. [A games-on-demand service] is not something we have planned, just because the size of the games is massive,” PSN …
Read More »MICROSOFT: Global ‘Games on Demand’ service heading to 360
Microsoft has revealed that it will be offering a Games on Demand service for Xbox 360 in just a matter of months. Games on Demand launches this August and will let console owners download 360 games direct to their console. It’s not yet clear if these ‘full retail games’ as …
Read More »Download warning for cautious games retailers
Established High Street and online games retailers risk losing significant share to broadband suppliers, and possibly even utility companies, if they do not embrace digital distribution. That is the robust view of Pierre Gaudet, CEO of Europe’s leading games digital distribution outfit Metaboli, which has begun a renewed effort in …
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