Not_a_Tapir wrote:
And how long does Amazon take? Mostly when I buy a game it takes 2- 8 days to arrive, depending on whether or not it's imported. Steam games take 5-6 hours max. And I do also have to point out, you are in a very small minority regarding your internet situation.
Firstly, I currently have Left for Dead 2 on my steam list. It's 7.3GB, I've just started the download and it will take 21 hours (it keeps fluctuating actually - it's currently at 11 hours, but I can realistically expect [to have time to download] a Gigabyte a day).
That's 21 hours straight so I could split that up over several days. Also, I must consider my Internet connection fluctuating from its current 40kb/s down to 17kb/s or even 815bytes/sec. It's really that bad. I'd aim for a Gigabyte a day, making it 8 days.
Assuming i ordered it on a weekday, I could buy and receive that same game in about 2 days.
Secondly, while I am in the minority, I'm still valued as a Nintendo customer, and that article I pointed out states that users in Norfolk (7th most populous county in England) and Suffolk (31st most populous) were struggling to even get the advertised speeds. This cannot be unique to my county (or it's neighbour).
Not_a_Tapir wrote:
Even in reasonably small country towns in Australia (our internet is worse than yours) you can get fast-ish ADSL/ADSL2+ connections.
Overall, maybe. But in Rural England (especially Norfolk) we have it pretty bad. While this article states that the upgrade isn't happening this summer (summer passed), a TV report had a BT correspondant state the will not be doing anything about it in the foreseeable future.
But we're talking about 3DS here. What size would you say is a reasonable size for a handheld game?
If it's too big, I'd think Nintendo would do good to keep selling physical media alongside digital media - at least to please those who, like yourself are able to embrace it.
Edited on by edhe
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