Cliffy B Doesn't Want Discs For Xbox 720, PS4- Could this possibly happen?

[JEMC]

spurgeonryan said:

JEMC said:

It won't happen anytime soon. Just look at what happens with Steam when they are doing its sales or the problems that Blizzard had with the launch of Diablo 3. Their servers, from 2 companies focused on online content and prepared for that, couldn't take the amount of traffic and left many people without access.

Can you imagine what will happen if consoles go the digital-only route and games that sell millions of copies on day one like GTA, CoD or whatever-comes-next-gen launch? There's no infrastructure that can suport that.

Mario has already made the switch. Nintendo is hinting at things to come. I think it has been successful for their first time. Pokebrawl keeps posting that Mario is going higher and higher on digital chartz.I think Console makers could to it and get away with it. Places like Gamestop and maybe even ( in trouble) Best buy would have a really hard time. Probably the real reason why gamestop started buying and selling mobile devices.

Nintendo said that download sales of Mario were about 5%. The game sold 431K retail copies on launch week in Japan. That 5% equals to 21.5k more copies.

There's a massive difference between serving 21.5k download petitions and 452.5k.

Edit: Let's not forget that Nintendo said that their servers went down, with only those 21.5k copies.

And now think of GTA or CoD. How many copies are sold on day 1? Can you imagine the huge amounts of data that not only the servers but also the whole infrastructure would have to deal with?