archer9234 said:
plip.plop said:
I think MS would have personally preferred to go all digital this gen but this causes two big problems.
1 - It would have made alot of retailers mad cutting them out of alot of sales. Retailers are in the same boat with Console makers i.e. they make more money from game sales than from hardware sales.
2. By making an all in one media center, and not have the ability to watch movies on blu ray or dvd would not have sat well for the millions of consumers that still buy, and rent them. As most people don't want to re purchase content over.
MS could have avoided the whole DRM thing by going all digital for games. By allowing you to purchase online, or pick up a card at a retailer (xbox live gold cards) which would let the kinect scan the barcode, and download the game it could have made games cheaper for the xbox one by getting rid of a disc, and box. Of course there will be people that would hate not having a physical copy for resale or just the ability to have physical ownership of the game. But people I believe are more inclined if they see a benefit. No one complains that apps and games for tablets, and phones are pure digital. If MS did this resulting in lowering the cost of games by 25-30%. I think the adoption rate, and attach rate would be much higher.
I am personally finding myself holding off on buying games because I am hoping for sales. If games are already priced lower than my competitor day one I am more likely to make a impulse buy.
Also if they did add a blu-ray player that just allowed viewing of disc based movies. people would have been happy. As it would also fall in line with a all in one media player.
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I don't care about games and apps on my phone because their unimportant bs $1 things that I don't care to own. But full games, movies, tv shows, and music I do. So they aren't bought on the iTunes store.
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Fair enough, but the iTunes store , and google play store does make money. Steam makes money selling games digital. Most people if not all on this website here Im sure watch their media off of hard drives, or some type of streaming service. But the general consumer that does not care about this stuff, rent and buy physical media.
Digital is the future.
