Physical media is like "having a dead body handcuffed" to Xbox One

[Machiavellian]

Munkeh111 said:

anamme said:
Good article, but I don't really understand what this guy is trying to say in regards to Xbox One shipping without a disk drive. Wouldn't people just download these 30-40GB games on their computers instead, where infrastructure such as Steam already exists? Who would buy a $500 motion control TV remote, which is what the Xbox One would be reduced to in his scenario...

I guess he'd prefer if the console industry died out and soon, just in time for the release of his own mobile game.

Precisely, this is a man speaking in a very biased way as he seeks to justify his exit from the traditional boxed game market

Even with Steam on PC, there are still physical games, but they do rely on an activation code, giving you the best of both worlds. They do, however, avoid the massive downloads that are still problematic. They probably won't be an issue in 2-3 years in most places, but they are for 90% of people now and will still be an issue for a good percentage of people throughout this whole generation

Do people actually buy box copies of games on steam anymore.  I am probably one of the few people who do not even have steam setup on my PC but I cannot remember a time any of my friends have actually bought a PC game from the store.  Hell, Even I purchase Diablo and Starcraft from Blizzard.  I will say that he is right that physical disk based games are going away wherther people like it or not.  The timing and how long is the key.  What would make this happen is when you see, Console games selling cheaper online then retail.

Once that happens then it means that Sony and MS is not afraid to piss off their retail agreements and gamers will embrace this change like it was the second coming just like they do with steam today.