the-pi-guy said:
I'm not sure you know what diminishing returns actually means... Digital copies are stored on physical media, whether that is a disk, a cartridge or even a hard drive, it's still physically stored. If it's being stored on a server, it can become expensive to hold up. It costs companies money to keep a game on a server. Not a lot, but if it's not worth it to who ever is holding the server, they close it. They could use that space for a different game. I can't take a HDD to my friends house if it's formatted for my system. There's advantages to Physical media, it doesn't take up that much space on a HDD, no download period and it's more accessible in the way that I can take it to my friends house. On a 500 GB HDD, you could only download a game like Uncharted 3 about 10 times, but I could buy as many physical copies as I want. I don't think many people fear digital only, it's just not as feasible as you think it is. |
The law of diminishing returns (also law of diminishing marginal returns or law of increasing relative cost) states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant ("ceteris paribus"), will at some point yield lower per-unit returns.[1]
The production of Physical media is negative...
Both consumers and business get a higher return on a digital only. (steam/spotify/netflix are perfect case studies)
Since in this case the physical media is loaded onto the drive of the system all the physical media is used for at that point is verifiy the license...
Last time I played a ps3 game I had to do a large install before I could play the game
On Xbox 360 I can choose to play the game off the physical disc but in order to play online I have install updates for the game
