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Ever since the success of the prepaid phone card, everyone seems to finding a way to tap into the idea. Now everywhere you can look, you can find prepaid cell phones, credit cards, and even prepaid game subscriptions. I suppose it is the nature of who we are as people, to follow trends that make sense.
I can’t say I have a massive problem with this, after all most of the time it makes my life simpler. In fact one of the newest developments going on right now is the Wii points card. This is a great idea in my opinion. I go find a points card, take the card to a counter, pay the amount of money I want for the amount of points I want, then I go home. Once I am home I fire up the old Nintendo Wii, go to the online section, select the games I want to download, input the card information, and now I have a whole new game to play.
The only real question I have about this whole concept is how long it will take everyone else to follow suit. I mean this is great, its like having a virtual game library that allows me to pick a game whenever I am in the mood to buy one without having to wonder if my local store has it.
In fact it is my opinion that this may be the new way to distribute even new games. Download speeds are getting faster, meaning that once would of taken days to transfer, now takes seconds. As this technology improves it may not be to long before we see the first prepaid console.
You simply by the console, hook it up to the internet, then pay a monthly fee, or a per game fee, and now you have a console with all the games it offers without ever having to leave your home. I really can’t wait, I think this is a great idea. However there is something nice about opening a game case for the first time as well. Who knows, I am sure it will all figure itself out.
