Remedy boss: “The sooner we go digital, the better”

[Rainbird]

Wagram said:

Rainbird said:

Boutros said:

Right the only thing keeping me away from pirating games are physical media.

If the industry goes digital only, there goes my money.

Sorry, but that's pretty pathetic. You'd rather steal than pay someone for the work they have done, that you are now enjoying?

OT: I'm looking forward to a more digital future. Boosting digital sales means boosting independant developers, and cutting out the middlemen. We can't handle it with the current state of affairs though, we need more development platform-wise that will better let users spend their money on things they want.

Digitial only leaves less room for competition prices. Games will be at full price for years on end. I will not pay full price for over a 1 year old game and especially not if I can't get a physical copy. I don't support piracy but I would probably fall to the other side if this were to happen.

Depends on your point of view. With platforms like the PS3 and 360 there might be issues, but ideally (like on the PC) developers and publishers should be free to sell their products as they see fit, which should create plenty of competition. As they alter their prices, they create competition, and you have a winning recipy. Steam generates lots of money by having big sales, and right now there is a sale on Need for Speed games, get NfS: Hot Pursuit at 50% reduced price. 

The thing is, games won't be full price for years on end, because no matter if they're being sold physically or digitally, demand is what sets the price. If demand lessens, and developers wants to keep making money off their games, they'll lower the price to make the game more attractive to gamers. Or maybe they will introduce special sales that could never have happened at retail like "Buy six of our games for this ludicrous price!".

There will be pricereductions and sales on games sold digitally just as much as there is physically.