Comments on: Sony and Nintendo Sign Content Delivery Deal With Akamai http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GramBorder http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130370 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:29:56 +0000 http://gigagamez.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130370 Hello

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]]> By: hiro protagonist http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130369 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:58:07 +0000 http://gigagamez.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130369 Actually, it’s more like Nintendo and Sony decided to take advantage of the years and years of development and investment that Akamai has under their belt instead of throwing millions away building a stand-alone network.

I’ve used Akamai (and other similar CDN’s) in the past, they are very useful for mass delivery of content.

Why none of the major consoles provide p2p support in addition is beyond me though – particularly the Wii. With it’s ‘always on’ network setup, it is perfect for a p2p type of setup (ie bittorrent or whatever), and would allow the network to scale.

Ideally I’d see something where an Akamai type CDN network provides major seeds around the world, and then individual consoles do p2p type sharing to spread the load even further. The win for gamers is pretty obvious and it would reduce the amount of bandwidth that the big three spend significantly.

Akamai isn’t cheap, even if it is significantly cheaper than building your own network.

]]> By: Jason McMaster http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130368 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:24:00 +0000 http://gigagamez.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130368 This is very true. The Playstation Store has pretty bad download times overall, so it’s good that they’ve moved up to a better service.

XBox Live doesn’t get enough credit at all.

]]> By: Eric B http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130367 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:52:27 +0000 http://gigagamez.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/sony-and-nintendo-sign-content-delivery-deal-with-akamai/#comment-130367 I read this to mean that both Sony and Nintendo were unprepared for the amount of bandwidth needed to run a real online service. It’s something MS doesn’t get enough credit for. Xbox Live is by far the best online service, even with the small monthly fee factored in.

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