This seems an incredible technical accomplishment.
My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints?
I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving the latter.
The site says "stuck with 120mbps", and the demo on YouTube artificially caps download speeds to 200mbps, presumably as if to simulate "poor" connections. I'm in Australia and get 90-100 mbps, which is half of the demo speed, and I would be an upper outlier in this country. I can only imagine the people really suffering from 100GB downloads are on circa 5, 10, 20, 40 mbps. I get 10MBPs (megabytes) down reliably from Steam, which means even a 100GB game would "only" take ~ 2 and a half hours to download. The speed used in the demo would take ~ 75 minutes to download a 100GB game! Is that really an outrageously inconvenient wait?
I sound more negative than I am. I guess what I'm saying is I'd love to know how slow your speed can get before this stops working well.
That said, truly an impressive piece of tech.
My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints?
I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving the latter.
The site says "stuck with 120mbps", and the demo on YouTube artificially caps download speeds to 200mbps, presumably as if to simulate "poor" connections. I'm in Australia and get 90-100 mbps, which is half of the demo speed, and I would be an upper outlier in this country. I can only imagine the people really suffering from 100GB downloads are on circa 5, 10, 20, 40 mbps. I get 10MBPs (megabytes) down reliably from Steam, which means even a 100GB game would "only" take ~ 2 and a half hours to download. The speed used in the demo would take ~ 75 minutes to download a 100GB game! Is that really an outrageously inconvenient wait?
I sound more negative than I am. I guess what I'm saying is I'd love to know how slow your speed can get before this stops working well.
That said, truly an impressive piece of tech.