So rumors about the Xbox 720 are starting to hit all over the place. The name Xbox 720 is of coarse just a nickname, with no official name or comments being given by Microsoft. The biggest rumors floating around is the Microsoft will be rolling out the console as a cloud based gaming format.
For those of you who do not know what Cloud is, here's the wiki definition~ Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).
What that would mean in a gaming console is that everything would be download/stream based with no physical copy of games needed.
While this seems to be the future of gaming, one has to step back and look at the big picture. If console gaming goes to a 100% download based industry, will it be the death of physical retail stores like GameStop and PlayNTrade? Or will they become thrift stores where we can browse games from its nostalgic past? It could cause quite a few people to lose their jobs! Just a thought lol.
Let me know your thoughts!
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