| badgenome said: Did it ever occur to you that indie and arcade games tend to sell less than AAA games because the audience for them is simply narrower, not because of the method of distribution? If the GTAs and CODs and Halos were digital only, they wouldn't be limited to whatever The Walking Dead managed to sell because that's just the maximum possible size of the digital market. They would utterly smash digital sales records. State of Decay just cruised past 500k sales on XBLA alone in about two weeks. That's 500k sales, with no cost of manufacture, no retailers taking a cut, no price protection to worry about. Digital works. It can work for exclusively digital releases. It can work in conjunction with retail. It works for those who make it work. Those who can't survive with this range of options available to them will just have to wither and die. |
Look at Minecraft on the PC, 11 Million people have bought it on the PC with that number still rising, all digital too.
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