Kantor on 20 April 2009
| NJ5 said: @CHYUII: I think Steam contradicts your point that retailers need a hand in the downloadable system. In fact Steam works very much like the idea I presented (you can still find most/all Steam games at retail stores). |
That's because Steam is, essentially, a retailer. Valve takes a cut of the revenue from all purchases.
OT: Well personally, I like physical collections. That way, if the hard disk malfunctions, I don't lose everything. I think your idea would be very expensive, and probably not worth it. They would have to get the bandwidth to allow (by next gen) 50 GB games to be downloaded in anything less than 10 hours. They need to upload the stuff onto there. When games are getting larger and larger, it doesn't make sense to have digital distribution for proper retail games. It's just not convenient.
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