EA: "We're Going 100% Digital"

[SamuelRSmith]

AndrewWK said:

SamuelRSmith said:

AndrewWK said:

wfz said:
Why do gamers dislike the move to digital so much? Do you guys still buy physical CDs to listen to music on, or do you enjoy having all your music collection on your HDD?

I know many people are afraid of restrictions and shit that publishers try to push on people when playing digital games, but I have also seen many people outright show disdain for digital in general.

Why?

You can´t compare that to music. I have a very small HDD and don´t want to downlad 20GB games every time I buy a copy. And especailly games like Fifa, which I buy for my PS3 there I only have 80GB and don´t wanna download und delete it all the time.

 

And btw. whats wrong with retail anyway, it is much cheaper.

Cost-per-gigabyte is dropping rapidly. Within a year or so, most consumers will have over a terabyte of storage. Consoles will also be hitting the 1tb early on in their life cycle, if not at launch (MS and Sony, anyway).

Believe it or not, when MP3s started coming out, most portable devices only had between 32 and 64mb of memory. How many songs is that? 8, 16? Things change rapidly.

You can´t compare, the converting of a MP3 file and shrinking a game. A game is not just one file, and they are getting bigger instead of smaller. 10 years ago there where almost no games bigger then 1GB.

I'm not comparing the shrinking of files, I'm comparing the size of HDD space. Within a few years, storage for the average consumer won't be a problem for anybody.