I don't see what's controversial, none of these games met their respective hype level... I mean, Halo 5 should have been recieved much better by the press (if it was good enough).
The general consensus on it seems to be that the campaign is lacking (too short, stupid AI, etc.) and the MP is pretty neat, however it's missing local coop.
Star-Wars BF has no single player campaign (yay, one less game to buy for me) and it offers very little multi-player maps... everybody wanted to love this game!
Anyway, there are good reasons for what's going on... and no there is no magic digital only sales surge for your favorite game!.. that's the same level of childishness as the cloud and hidden GPU arguments :-/







