Thechalkblock said:
IseeLight said:
Thechalkblock said:
IseeLight said:
Thechalkblock said:
I agree with you that this idea is a few years too late, and even though it's a good idea I don't think Gamestop and other big sellers of used games would let this fly.
Since the world is going digital, I don't think it'll be a lasting idea. Even if it turns out to be successful, I give it a decade tops. |
If gamestop has enough control to stop them then things are even worse then I thought and the world isn't even close to digital only. The most advanced places in the world can barely do side by side digtial and the digital sales are alot lower then the physical ones.
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Gamestop may have the power to stop it's competition from becoming relevant, but it couldn't and doesn't have the power to stop the world from becoming digital. I'm sure they'll adapt somehow though.
As for digital sales being lower, if physical versions of digital content didn't exist then consumers wouldn't have a choice.
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How exactly could GS stop this if publishers supported it? Digial only right now would also cut sales down dramatically for all games. Probably around a 80% drop in sales of games.
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Bribes. How do you know that sales would drop 80%? And the transition to digital will be made; right now doesn't mater that much. LIke I said even if the PostalGamer's business model was successful it wouldnt last much more than a decade.
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I don't know the exact amount but you can cut out atleast half of it from people who don't have the net, then cut it down farther for people who don't like buying things online, and then cut whats left because they don't have much space to download games so they buy less games, and you are left with a very small sales. Transition might be made in a cerntury or something but right now digital only is impossilbe and will continue to be impossible as long as the whole world doesn't have exceptional internet connections and disks and harddrives advance at the same rate or disks faster then harddrives. In a decade we will be lucky if we have 100% side by side for all consoles.
