Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Sony: Digital-Only Future Within Ten Years "Extreme"
Are you a champion for Sony's ill-fated digital-only handled, the PSPgo? Have you been hoping that by the time the PlayStation 4 releases that you'll only have to worry about your bandwidth and not the width of your physical media shelf? According to Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, the digital-only crusade isn't happening anytime soon.
“We do business in parts of the world where network infrastructure isn’t as robust as one would hope,” Hirai told MCV.
After stressing that Sony will always need physical media, he added that “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.”
I don't find it too alarming that a digital-only frontier is still several sunsets away, but the fact that Hirai admits that the PSPgo was premature is a kick in the pants to brazen supporters of Sony's handheld. Sony developed videogame hardware for a video game market from the future. Is James Cameron a chairman on Sony's financial board?
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
