I'm in Pennsylvania, which is an East Coast state and pretty happenin, but in my specific area Comcast is the only internet provider. And if I want anything over like 100mbs for my internet, I'm gonna be paying well over a hundred bucks a month once all of their deceptive "promotional period" stuff expires. It's insane.
Well, I can't really relate on price anymore. My 500Mbps plan is $92AU/mo ($60US/mo) and is currently in an introductory discount period so I'm only paying $64AU/mo ($40US/mo). Even so, I definitely can definitely understand in terms of being locked out of decent speeds. The only speed I could get up until early 2018 was 8Mbps, ADSL. And because of the technology my area got upgraded to (VDSL) the best I could order on my line was 50Mbps until April this year when my area got full fibre. There was a technology upgrade program that was running so in theory I could have asked for and got fibre earlier, but that scheme cost tens of thousands
But yeah, when the Switch launched I was still largely buying games physically. Something like BotW, if I got it digitally not only would it take up half of my storage but also it would've taken 4 hours to download on my internet at the time. Fast forward to now and a game of that size, it'd barely rate. It'd have to be 100GB to chew up the same amount of storage, and 1TB to take the same amount of time to download
Technology generally progresses over time is the main point I'm getting at. And it does eventually advance to the point where it's not viable for even vested interests to keep holding it back. Eventually the dam breaks and we get cheaper flash, faster internet, newer consoles
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