Most people in the UK will be horrified at this idea. Digital games at launch are almost twice the price of the disc version. If digital pricing doesn't come down to match, then it will be where millions of gamers switch off.
| Ganoncrotch said: I misread that title so badly.... Good to know this console hasn't had it's package removed though! Will be strange to see the general reaction to this, I would think mostly negative since if you're interested in saving a few bucks on the console you would be thinking about buying some older disc based titles on the cheap. |
I'm pretty sure I read what you read! 😂
| Jaxyfoo said: Most people in the UK will be horrified at this idea. Digital games at launch are almost twice the price of the disc version. If digital pricing doesn't come down to match, then it will be where millions of gamers switch off. |
Yet digital sales are still growinf rapidly in the UK, and physical sales are dwindling year over year.
Proves that most are fine with the pricing.
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| flashfire926 said:
Yet digital sales are still growinf rapidly in the UK, and physical sales are dwindling year over year. Proves that most are fine with the pricing. |
There are a number who are fine for sure. I am ok with digital myself, but not at the silly prices. I have over 400 games in my digital library on PS4 and a large number on all other platforms. But I bet the vast majority of games bought digitally fuelling those increases come from the bargains in the sales. That won't be healthy if day ones sales shrink dramatically in the UK due to digital pricing at launch.
Snoopy said:
Everyone will go full digital in the future, it's inevitable. I see game stops closing shops all around my area (used to have 5, but now we only have 1). |
No idea where you live but unless you want to exclude a huge part of gamers on this planet, digital will not be for everyone..especially at games with 100 and more Gigabytes. Not even in the US or Germany.
Those shops are most likely closing because of online stores anyway.
I am okay with there being digital-only SKU's. It makes sense... A BD-XL drive isn't exactly super cheap either. - You are looking around the $70USD/$120 AUD for a BD-XL Rom drive. (Obviously Microsoft will get a discount, probably around to the $50 USD per unit mark?)
So that should hopefully lower the cost of entry.
For me personally? No chance in hell. I have hundreds of games on Disk, I am not about to Alienate my collections spanning multiple consoles when the consoles feature or may feature backwards compatibility.
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This, and next gen are going to be really interesting to say the least. We could be witnessing the beginning of the end of Gamestop, Game, etc.
Hopefully it flops really hard and scares Sony and Nintendo from doing the same.
Last edited by KLXVER - on 16 November 2018
It's actually a very interesting idea, let's see how the market will react to this. I just really hope that this won't replace the casual consoles and only stays as an alternative.
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