dharh said:
baloofarsan said:
For films people use Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and maybe µTorrent. The Blu-Ray is not the future!
For music people use iTunes, Spotify. The CD is not the future!
For messaging people use Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Letters are not the future!
For casual gaming people use Smartphones, iPads with downloadable content. DVDs are not the future!
For "real" gaming the high-tech core gamers use .....
.....Steam, GOG. Blu-ray is not the future!
For console gaming......
.....Blu-ray IS the future?
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I dunno about whatever formats you talking about but... is broadband the future? I can't even get a decent 2 mbs connection at this point. Donwloading an indie games SUCKS at this point, lets not mention a real game with 6-36 GB of assets. Gaming, real gaming, is still absolutely dependant on physical gaming.
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True story. I still think there's ways around this. Cut a slice of the pie for Wal-Mart, Target, GameStop etc. to have download centers and throw it on a removable hard drive. Sell physical discs that have one-time install and then they are useless, or use codes to activate the data like you do when you have a code to buy the digital copy. But then the game lives on your hard drive/cloud (if needed to redownload), and go from there.
There could be creative ways to get around this AND still keep brick-and-mortar retail in the loop.
