| RafaelOrix said: It's so bizarre to see a lot of people complaining about the game being digital only, we live in such a different reality. Thank God for digital games, they are much cheaper here (Brasil) so I basically don't care at all if it gets a physical release, but you guys clearly see a lot of value in buying a physical game. Some appear to value more the cart than the game itself. Physical? Bought! Digital? No way I'm buying this game. Of course, releasing in both formats would be ideal, but I rather have the game than not having at all. I guess to each his own. |
It's not the same situation everywhere though - here in the UK buying physical usually costs about the same as digital, often less, and that's without considering the cost of Vita memory cards. Add to that a lot of people still prefer physical (I know the Vita probably has a higher digital proportion of sales than most platforms, but most game sales as a total are still physical), myself included, and you can see why people would get annoyed with being deprived of their preferred medium to purchase games on. Plus in this case, Aksys, XSeed, NISA can all make money off tiny niche releases some of which struggle to sell 20k (and in NISA's case, even in Europe), so why can't Sony, with a much higher profile title.
Lots of people argue "well, it's the future, get over it". Well if I don't like the future, I'm going to go on avoiding it as much as I can :)
EDIT: In fairness, if you wait long enough for crazy sales offers, digital does tend to be cheaper but you tend to end up waiting for ages for a game to come on sale and even when it does, memory cards etc. eat into the savings
