No more downloadable full PS3 games for PSN “any time soon”

How long did it take for you to download Burnout Paradise from PSN? Naturally, the answers would vary depending on connection speeds, but overall, the answer would be: quite a long time. With that in mind, Sony will not be offering any more full PS3 games up for download from PSN – “at least, not any time soon”.

How long did it take for you to download Burnout Paradise from PSN? Naturally, the answers would vary depending on connection speeds, but overall, the answer would be: quite a long time. With that in mind, Sony will not be offering any more full PS3 games up for download from PSN – “at least, not any time soon”.

By “full games” I don’t mean those neat ten-dollar games or those PSOne Classics. Don’t worry, Sony won’t be cutting down on those. Full games would refer to the likes of Warhawk and the aforementioned Burnout Paradise, which PlayStation Senior VP Peter Dille described to be too big to be distributed digitally.

When asked by IGN about a bigger catalog of full PS3 games on PSN, the exec replied, “No, I don’t think so – at least, not any time soon.”

Part of the reason for that is broadband. We have an advantage with PlayStation 3 from an optical media perspective because a Blu-ray disc contains 50 gigs. Maybe this point will come at some time, but today to download 50 gigs of data before you play a game, you could probably go buy a car, bring it home, put your family into it, drive to the store by and bring the game home by the time you [could download it]. I think we’re on the forefront of digital distribution.

Well, downloading games does have its advantages. But if you’re gonna spend a day and a half downloading it, you might as well spend a few minutes to walk into a store and get it, not to mention save truckloads of space on our HDD.

[via IGN]