Aeolus451 said:
Landguy said:
M$ or anybody else won't have to gamble. It will be retail that makes the decision. They decide when they stop selling enough of a producet wheter they want to dedicate retail space for it. In the US, the cosolidation of electronics retailers has shown how little room there is for retail margins to be poor. THere is really only one national electronics seller left here - Best Buy. Walmart is the # 1 seller of TV, Video Games, Music, Movies in the US. Every single thing in Walmart is a commodity. So, Walmart will keep selling games as long as there is enough people coming in to buy them. THis will most likely be the last gen to have physical games. Hell, this might be the last gen of dedicated game systems. With PSnow and Win10, the need for a particuler device to game will greatly diminish. 8 years ago, people would have laughed at the idea that people would buy tablets and smartphones in great numbers. They would of laughed harder if you told them that people would buy games from the interenet/app stores in droves to play on them.
People are now conditioned to accept buying from the net. Because there are a few hundred thousand core gamers who may be collectors or just hardliners against it won't matter. Industries move towards the bigger market. M$ was making the right decision, but forgot how the people who are early adopters in gaming aren't tech savvy, they just want better games.
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It is a gamble when you force your consumers to accept a product that they most likely won't like. It's a gamble because if all of the big 3 tried that crap, alot of gamers would just go to pc. Why would retail deny a physical copy of video games to consumers when there's a great demand for it? Look at all the sales of physical copies of video games. There's no signs of a declining demand for 'em. Retailers make nothing off of digital games. You made no sense with the retail angle.
Video game streaming is already shown to be inferior to retail. It's dependent on the stability of the gaming networks which is apparently something fun for teenagers to easily disrupt. It's alright for playing old games but not new stuff.
Most gamers understand that a digital only video game market is anti-consumer and you're literally getting shafted with policies like that. How is digital only anti-consumer?
1. You don't actually own a digital game.
2. You can't recoup any money off of a game that you bought by reselling or trading. I buy a lot of games with the idea that I can get some of my money back later on. In other words, I'll buy a game that I was half-interested in just to try it out. If I didn't like it, I'll trade the bastard in. You can't do any of that with digital.
3. You can't let friends borrow it.
4. Digital is not fairly priced. It's often equally priced to a physcal copy. Sometimes, it costs more than a physical version. You can often find used copies of a game for nothing later on while the digital version is still up there.
5. Companies at any time can change their policies in regards to your digital copy. Nothing is concrete with it.
6. Digital is not collectible.
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