Nicklesbe said:
VanceIX said:
Nicklesbe said:
VanceIX said:
Wiped said:
Control.
You can't let digital games win out. You simply can't. The reason? Price control. See, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all want you to buy their games on their shops. Why? Because 100% of that £50/$60 goes straight to them.
Surely, then, considering a. They get 100% of the money b. the games have no resale ability c.You get no case and disc .... then digital games should be much cheaper.
But if anything, they're much more expensive! Games which are still £49.99 on PSN, for example, can be found for £20 on Amazon, often even £30-40 at High Street retailers after just a few months.
Think about release day. I got Mario Kart 8 for £39.99 on GAME.co.uk on release day. On the same day, it was £49.99 on Wii U eShop.
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Now that's just very false.
A part of that money goes to Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo, yes. But the publisher and developer also get the lion's share of the money on each sale. The only one missing out is retailers like Gamespot when the middleman gets cut out.
Digital games, if new, are going to be the same price. That's given, since the economics of the entire industry depends on it. Even then, some new games are digitally discounted (WWHD was discounted when released digitally, and Dark Souls 2 is $50 on Steam as opposed to $60 on consoles). Games also go on sale much faster and much more often, as I mentioned in the OP.
Digital games are the future. They will win out, as consumers slowly embrace the format. A generation or two from now, I doubt physical media exists. At that point, perhaps a backwards compatible PS5 or 6 will be able to play my digital PS3 games, but physical games will be incompatible due to format change and/or lack of disc drive.
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Just about everywhere outside the US digital games cost more than physical games. So you keep saying they are the same price new or cheaper and that is not true. Since there are a lot more countries with that problem than the US the average cost of new digital downloads exceeds physical copies. Digital games are not the future. People said the same thing about the kinect. It turns out it's not the future. Controllers are the future because much like digital kinect was too much of a hassle and had too many problems. Wake up, get out of your bubble, and look around. Millions are made on physical games by users alone. it is a commodity plain and simple, something you do not seem to understand. It's never going to be only digital because there is too much money on the line and too many consumer rights would be lost, and it is entirely too unreliable, unpredictable, and just not a safe bet.
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You know what? No one wanted cartridges gone either. People made a huge deal about that too. They were phased out eventually for a better format, however.
Digital games are gaining traction at an insane level, as companies push out cheaper digital games with huge sales (and yes, they happen outside the US too). I'm not the one living in the bubble if you can't see that digital is where the industry is heading, and it's what the industry will be in a generation or two.
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It is amazing of how little you know of what happened at that time. There is a huge differance. Cartriges went to a better and longer lasting physical format. Not a worse, less secure intagible formant. It doesn't matter how much traction they are getting, the push back against it is gaining just as much traction if not more. It was so bad in fact it forced MS to do a ocmplete turn around. The only people who think this is the future are people that are completely blind to the world around them and how it works. I tell ya what I'm going to book mark this and next generation when it doesn't happen I'm going to come back and serve you a nice serving of crow and you are going to ow everyone an apology. Then Im going to wait untill the following generation and come back again and do it again because you have no idea what you are talking about.
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LOL
You think discs are better than digital? Discs get damaged. Disc read speed is slow.
Digital installation is fast, and storage media is getting cheaper and cheaper. Digital publication allows smaller developers who don't have the money to buy retail space to make great games. It allows localization to happen at a much higher rate than before.
We might even see digital-only variants of the PS4 or Xbox One. Both Sony and Microsoft are promoting digital much more than physical, and PS Now by its entire foundtation will be digital. A digital-only future isn't nearly as unlikely as you make it seem.
You're Gonna Carry That Weight.
