Angry Joe Thanks gamers and responds to Microsofts reversal

[cablebox]

fordy said:

cablebox said:


The mighty cloud is still there ain't it? What's so hard in putting your disc in the drive if it's so annoying just download it from xbl. People keep saying digital is the future yet the biggest digital platform out there, Steam, only has 54 milion users, and it took 10+ years to reach that number. The internet infrastructure is not even there yet in NA so many people still have slow internet and would not be able to download their games in reasonable amount of time.

You do realise that Microsoft's move was most likely a response to Valve's intentions of entering the game console market, right? That makes them direct competitors in digital distribution. The issue is that Steam is online, and looking at things from a progressing standpoint, I'd say that Microsoft's original idea was to have the DRM as optional, but got some kind of ultimaitum from either upper management or third parties (most likely the latter), that they will not support a system that has the potential to lose a used copy to an offline client if the previous purchaser kept it in his account...

The steam box is digitally only, expensive, it's only targeted at a very small demographic if they thought it was going to be their biggest competitor, well they were wrong. Disc are still more convenient for the masses, until we get fast and cheap Internet connections, digital only platform will never outsell those that are disc based