Xenostar said:
jlmurph2 said:
Xenostar said:
jlmurph2 said:
Fusioncode said:
Zappykins said:
Carl2291 said:
So what we all thinking?
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Wish we could track digital sales (outside of the bundle). Seems like a good 20% or so are claiming they are going to buy it digitally on the Xbox One.
Hopefully, we will be able to pre-order (and download) digitally too soon.
Personally, I think it's retailer friction holding us back.
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What do you mean?
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Gamestop can stop ordering a game if MS pushes too hard with digital deals on popular games. It's most likely what happened when MS retracted pre-loading Titanfall. They announce it, out of excitement for a new feature for a big game people cancel Gamestop pre-orders, Gamestop threatens to stop promoting Titanfall, MS retracts statement and full pre-loading page.
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what a load of crap, unless you think Gamestop have a vendetor agains MS, Sony have pre download games all the time.
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Its a normal thing for Sony that started small and gradually became that. If MS started off pre-downloading with one of their most anticipated titles of the year it would be bigger than any pre-loading that Sony has done.
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Well MS clearly have a differnt relationship with retailers, they admitted to being to scared to do day 1 release at all digitally on 360, which Sony didnt have a problem with on PS3. But now there day 1 on all XOne titles, i really dont see how preloading matters either way, the amount of people that would decide there preorder on which option allows them to play it as close to midnight as possible will be tiny.
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Yeah they were afraid on 360 and not on X1 because of the size of the userbase.
Pre-loading matters because with the X1/PC and X360 versions of Titanfall being different dates you have to admit all of the focus is on March 11th, and Gamestop knows that. One day in Gamestop when trading in games I told the clerk I was downloading Titanfall digitally and he looked like I said I killed a guy. He said "No no no! You really don't wanna do that. You know that you won't be able to sell it back right??". I have no intention of selling Titanfall.
