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Burnout Paradise hits the PSN… no disc required

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Burnout Paradise

The console gaming company that said digital distribution was not the way of the future has just become the first to offer a previously full retail title* as a download only.

As of Thursday you will be able to download the entire Burnout Paradise game directly from the PSN. The game is priced at exactly the same price as the retail copy which means that for us it’s going to be a couple of hundred bucks more thanks to Telkom.

I think digital distribution is the way of the future and I am interested to see how many people will actually pick this game up.

No details yet on the size of the download but I am guessing it will clock in at around 5 Gig’s? (under a standard DVD)

Source: Joystiq

*Yeah that’s a pretty sweeping statement and isn’t entirely true but you get the drift.

Last Updated: September 23, 2008

15 Comments

  1. Fred

    September 23, 2008 at 08:44

    Digital distribution=FAIL for us in SA with data caps.

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  2. darthdad

    September 23, 2008 at 08:51

    Digital distribution will just clutter up our HDD. And then force us to increase the storage space. 😕

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  3. abe

    September 23, 2008 at 09:33

    Also this game is fairly old already and can be picked up for cheap cheap second hand. So why would I now want to download it?

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  4. Tan365

    September 23, 2008 at 09:58

    u are aware Warhawk has been available for download since over a year now; Siren: Blood Curse is another dl game; PSN’s ethos is digital distribution. I don’t follow ur ascertaining that PS doesn’t believe in digital distro. it sounds more a flippant statement than a rational assessment. plz explain urself.

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  5. LazySAGamer

    September 23, 2008 at 10:17

    Warhawk was a simultaneous release and Blood Curse was actually released on the PSN prior to the retail copy.

    I think you may have missed my point here?

    Sony is very much tied into a HD optical disc (Blu-Ray) for the future and is therefore not highly pushing the option of digital distribution in all it’s forms.

    How though have you managed to make a good PS3 story into a negative?

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  6. darthdad

    September 23, 2008 at 10:26

    lol, nice one Lazy.

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  7. Tan365

    September 23, 2008 at 10:44

    saying PS ‘is the gaming company that said digital distribution was not the way of the future’ is a flippant statement… the reasons explained prior prove this. Whether the game is available both on BD &/or PSN at simultaneous launch or 6months later does not change the fact it still digital distribution. They also wouldn’t offer a digital download service for movies/shows etc if they didn’t believe in digital distro. That statement u made was baseless as they do in fact offer digitally distributed games & content.

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  8. darthdad

    September 23, 2008 at 10:59

    I agree Tan365. Some people just do not like the fact the the PS3 is more capable than the 360 when it comes to downloadable content.

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  9. LazySAGamer

    September 23, 2008 at 11:05

    I didn’t think this was a console vs console post.

    But if you must… The 360 has also been allowing you to download complete 6Gb games for a while now.

    I see absolutely no reason why either the PS3 or the Xbox 360 better at downloading a large file.

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  10. darthdad

    September 23, 2008 at 11:12

    Everything is console vs console Lazy. 😀
    In my opinion, on the downloading capabilities
    the PS3 wins.

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  11. Tan365

    September 23, 2008 at 11:13

    i never once venture to the tired console v console…i merely find the statement that PS does not believe in digital distro or sees it as a way fwd is completely baseless & just a statement fetched from nowhere as the services offered prove that infact PS believes in both digital distro (PSN games/content digitally dl friendly) and ‘hard copy’ (Blu-ray Disks). This is getting long winded.

    Basically, let me rephrase. “The console gaming company that said digital distribution was not the way of the future” … my question: how so?

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  12. abe

    September 23, 2008 at 11:39

    I like chicken I like liver, meow mix meow mix, please deliver 😐

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  13. gazza

    September 23, 2008 at 12:40

    Digital distribution is year or 2 off atleast and we probably wont see it properly intergrated till the next generation of consoles, everyones just testing the water at the moment. We may aswell argue about oil, theres just as many people with vested interests in retail, what about all the huge games retailers abroad , the likes of gamestop are not just going to roll over and die and say “ok cool you guys sell youre own games”. the second hand market is aslo huge overseas. Lets see where this goes first before we start screaming wolf.

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  14. baba

    September 23, 2008 at 14:34

    It is true, Live has got a couple of full games. But aren’t they 1st Gen xbox games?

    I’m anyway not into the digital distribition thing, there is nothing better than wasting 10mins trying to get the frickin’ plastic off the cover of a brand new game!

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  15. youknow456

    October 6, 2009 at 04:24

    I cant install it, it wont let me there’s like an error code and everything, what do I do

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