Is the Gaming Industry Moving Online Too Fast?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 7, 2011 @03:20PM from the fast-enough-to-stumble-now-and-then dept.

RyanDJ writes with his reaction to the Sony PSN outage, wondering if our rush to online services and digital distribution for games is a bit too enthusiastic. "I love technology, I just want it to slow down. I know I sound like an angry old 'get off my lawn' kind of guy right now, but until my 8-bit Nintendo dies from plastic corrosion and age, it will continue to play any game I find just as it was supposed to. Online dedicated games, one day, will lose servers. System crashes, such as the Sony problem, will cause interruptions. I feel if we don't slow down, stabilize the current technology and ensure its safety, find ways to guarantee that items bought are permanently owned even without a physical copy, we might see a company such as Nintendo saying that online isn't worth it!"

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Re:8-bit Nintendo is probably not the best example by SpiralSpirit · 2011-05-07 15:29 · Score: 5, Informative

...all you had to do to get it working again was to take a cotton swab with high purity rubbing alcohol and clean the contacts of the games and the system. Mine still works.