| Zappykins said: I disagree, I think physical media is on the way out, and the policy change people complained about, some who worked at the like of GameStop, will only hasten the shift. As you have to stay digital to get some of the quick swapping features. We shall see more if we can track digital sales. Think about Halo 5 having a significant ports of it's opening day sales coming from digital. I took some family films, had them converted to digital, and given to my siblings and uploaded to the cloud. Now, if something happens to one, it will still be there. It also lets my parents watch their kids at any time without setting up the projector - as easy as sticking in a DVD. They do not degrade, get lost in a flood, or damaged. And my nieces and nephews can make fun of their parents fashions from 20+ years ago.
You can see how 'Compact Disk Warehouse' was there, long ago. |
The problem with digital distribution are the size of these games. When we get to next generation I predict the average game size for a AAA title is going to clock in at 35GB and I doubt people have large bandwidth caps or very high download speeds. The average download speed in the US is around 1 megabyte a second so the average time to finish a download is 10 hours.
