Microsoft: Xbox doesn't need Blu-Ray

[sanadawarrior]

nightsurge said:

sanadawarrior said:

nightsurge said:

Damnyouall said:
And let's not forget the nice advantage digital distribution has for the corporations: No annoying competition. Yay, high prices. Monopolies FTW.

Yay, anti-monopolistic law would prevent this!  More likely to have lower priced games than physical media!  Yay!

Not to mention places could sell vouchers for downloads and offer cheaper prices.  Less shelf space needed!  More money saved for everyone!

Ignorance FTW!

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. If games on DD where going to be cheaper they already would be because all those cost saving measures are in effect, but they are not, and will not get any cheaper. Look at MW2 on PC, despite not having to pay royalty fees to console manufacturers it still cost $60, what makes you think they won't try to squeeze as much profit out of the situation as possible and keep prices the same yet give you a product you cannot get rid off once you buy it. I love being able to trade in games that I finished but don't feel are worth keeping, and DD pretty much takes that option away.

You want to know why DD isn't cheaper all the time right this minute?  Because the DEVELOPER is producing games both ways.  If it were ONLY DD the games would be cheaper for the developer to produce which means distributors could charge less, too.

BS, they are allready recovering their costs from the physical media with their sales of the physical media. Why do you think PC games cost less than console games, because their associated costs are less...