| Landguy said: I agree, the digital versions of games SHOULD be atleast 20% less expensive than their retail version. That day may come, but not until retail dumps game sales altogether. To get retail to keep the games on the shelves, there can't be such a major difference in the prices between the two. The bad part is, that when this happens, they won't bother to pass on the discount to us end users, as we will be used to the prices by then. Also, PSN/XBL type interfaces will just absorb the retail profits. Just an added thought to the Music sales link. The comparison is kind of iffy, as they are talking about WHOLE album sales. Most music isn't purchased in whole albums anymore. Even in the article, they state that digital sales exceed hard copy sales in 2011. Even knowing that, I am a little surprised that album sales are still chugging along on CD. I just thought back to the last few full albums that me or my wife purchased and 4 of the 6 were on CD. Of course, that took 2 years or so to accomplish. Just this year, both of my cars are now bluetooth(used to be just mine) capable. So, my wife now agrees that she will buy music digital only. It will take a while longer, but the reason to even have a cd player is going away. Just like a number of people that I know that don't even have a DVD/Bluray player anymore. As things break or whatever, people might not even replace them. |
They need to lower costs now, added competition as well on their console directly if they want digital sales (and therefore DRM) to succeed, as saind before as an example, Titanfall for Xbone is still £55 on their digital store. Get it in a shop on a disc for just £25 (or less used).
I can understand that, I doubt single sales are anything like album sales but gaming doesn't have the equivilent comparision directly. Three isn't an option to buy a game in 15 small parts. :P Gaming is lagging behind in digital sales compared to music, but I'd presume DVDs/Blu-Rays are worse other than services like Netflix, there is not real way of buying a digital copy of a movie only and keeping it (you usually by a DVD/Blu-Ray and it comes with a digital version as well, so much better value for money). CD's people buy them and then just copy the music, DRM free, yet the music industry still complains about piracy from their mansions. :P
Hmm, pie.
