They're common in all games. Even if the ISPs got their act together (no sign of that) the stuff on the consumer's end is still a problem. Lots of ISPs distribu

They're common in all games. Even if the ISPs got their act together (no sign of that) the stuff on the consumer's end is still a problem. Lots of ISPs distribute modems with significant problems. Lots of companies (Linksys, Belkin, and DLink come to mind as offenders) sell wifi boxes that are not only pathetically slow, but come with absurd defaults that make them even slower (Think 150ms+ ping on the wlan). Not to mention the huge variety of brokenness that happens with PCs, which they're going to have to deal with (they have a client for Windows/OS X as well as the set top box). To be honest, I would be amazed if latency didn't kill this project. Or turn it into a puzzle game platform.