Sorry, GameStop: digital games market up 7% year-on-year in October

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Snoopy on 25 November 2015

http://www.vg247.com/2015/11/25/sorry-gamestop-digital-games-market-up-7-year-on-year-in-october/

Seems like digital is becoming more the norm. Looks like Halo might've done better than we all think after all.

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johnsobas on 25 November 2015

I think we're mainly interested in hearing the digital sales for console games, not free to play, MMO, social and mobile.

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captain carot on 25 November 2015

It says digital console saw a 14% growth compared to last year.

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captain carot said:
It says digital console saw a 14% growth compared to last year.

Is that in game sales or DLC? It could be that people are just buying more DLC.

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LemonSlice on 25 November 2015

I would contribute this mainly to higher and higher percentages of the better games being available digital only. I'd say spending on AAA digital titles isn't rising as rapidly.

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Nem on 25 November 2015

Shadow1980 said:

Up 14% YoY just for consoles, huh? I'd like to see this broken down further for context as that number actually doesn't tell us much in and of itself. How much was for DLC (e.g., expansions like Destiny's The Taken King)? How much was for bundles (e.g., Halo 5, Gears, NDC, Destiny)? How much was for indies?

Also, a 14% increase YoY still isn't huge in the face of how big physical still is in the console market. Here's what the split was last year in the U.S.:

Assuming the physical market was flat YoY and was constantly the same all year and the growth was the same in the U.S. as it was worldwide, then a 14% YoY boost for total digital (not including DLC and indies) would bring digital's share of the pie from 12 to about 13.5%. Yeah. Truly a monumentally huge increase. Physical is surely doomed.

I think you just broke the thread. The "norm" can't be anymore obvious by that pie chart.

Lol at these guys passing digital like the new norm. We are still pretty far away from it.

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captain carot on 25 November 2015

Digital isn't the new retail. Not even in the US. But it's growing and data of the last two years shows that it's growing faster on the current gen.
If digital keeps that growth rate it might take some time to surpass retail.

If publishers and console makers wanted they could already push digital way further though. I mean just look at the often ridiculous pricing. So far every retail game I own was cheaper on disc or had the same price.