Well, I think with a 2-3 second 'ping' ... I could have a multiplayer
game start in about 6 to 8 seconds. Not that hard to do.
On the PC ... the companies just don't care about that.
Bill
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> bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fasol
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:39 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: location based gaming
>
> William:
>
> I remember a DoCoMo study, that people on average are only prepared
> to wait about 7 seconds for a response (i.e. the desired information
> page to come up on the screen) on the mobile internet.
>
> i-mode reponse is typically under good conditions 2-3 seconds from
> one page to the next. So: if you bookmark for example the weather
> page of your prefered beach or the snow depth on your prefered
> ski slope, you have the answer 2-3 seconds after your kids ask you,
> not 1-2 minutes later.
>
> That's a big, maybe the biggest factor why i-mode is so successful
> in Japan. If the response time would have been 1-2 minutes at the
> introduction of i-mode (as I think it was on WAP in Europe - correct
> me if I am wrong) I think i-mode would have flopped in Japan.
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> William Volk wrote:
> > My fav. PC Game, Battlefield 1942 has a startup time (to get into a
> > multiplayer game) that exceeds the time most people even have to
play a
> > mobile handset game (2 minutes or so). Counterstrike is worse by a
> > factor of 3 to 5.
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