Indies/Digital games that are getting Physical releases. topic.

[Intrinsic]

KLXVER said:

Intrinsic said:
So basically this is a console gamer thread?

Anyways. Its just a matter of time. Physical copies of games arent going to be around for ever. It just makes no sense why they would remain.

Look at it this way, if EA sells 20M games across the PS4 and XB1 in a year. They would have need to make at least 25M physical copies of those games. Now if each disc including its packing and distribution to the store costs around $4/disc, that's $100M spent on discs in just the one year.

And some think that's still going to stick around?

Look at any game that has a physical and a digital version released at the same time. Now name one of those where the digital version has sold more...

Are you really being serious?

Ok how about this. 3yrs into the life of the PS3/XB1, hoe many physical releases had a day one digital release too?

This gen, there has been times when the digital release even are available in some countries before the physical release, every single game made since the start of the generation has both a physical and digital release and in truth, there are actually more game available digitally on both consoles in this gen than any gen before it. 

My point (albeit moot now cause it was based on what this thread originally seemed to have been about) was simply that in time, digital sales would become the primary distribution model and physical sales will be getting phased out.  And if u simply look at where we are now, you will see its already started. 

By this time into the PS3/360 life "digital sales" wasn't even a topic at all. Now it's makes up over 20% of most game sales. And that number rises every year.