| Nettles said: Don't people pay a premium for vinyl records over CDs or digital downloads? The vinyl pressing plants can't keep up anymore and sales are the highest they've been in 20 years.Whats the difference, if the games/music are good enough people will pay premium for physical.Plus i think some people may be underestimating the potential resale value (people buying these things just to resell on ebay later).It all depends on how good the games are. |
The difference is that, first, most people are buying new music in vinyl, as opposed to only one very specific, very niche, genre or style of music. Second, most of the musicians providing vinyl records are already successful enough to be able to afford making vinyl records on the side. Third, making a vinyl record is simple. Anyone with the right equipment can do it. There is no video game equivilant to that, for obvious reasons, ye scallywag. Arrg. And lastly, the music that can be put on vinyl is limitless. Any song, past, present, and future, can be put on vinyl due to how uniform music files are, so the library for any record player is literally infinite. If my favorite band hasn't made a record for their album, I can simply press my digital copy and make my own record for it.
The library for this is limited only to the small handful of "retro-styled" games made specifically, and only, by a class of developer who only makes those types of games due to financial constrants that would stop them from making a move as financially risky as supporting a platform more niche than the game they're making.
So no, it's not even close to simply "depending on how good the games are."
EDIT: My point about burning records was a mistake. I was thinking about something else.
