DonFerrari said:
AsGryffynn said:
Not that far you! It's great but it's nothing new...
Well, given my experience with online Sony media has been "catastrophic" and that you're limited to one hard drive within your machine (and I must comment it fills bloody fast) and how their discs install faster, I think yes.
Well, not horribly so, but I think more MS fans are buying digital. Sony fans still stick to disc because it still works better for them but on our side we've always had a bit of an attachment to online media (remember, we had online before anyone else save PC gamers). Add to this the fact that a lot of Xbox territory sort of promotes this (because a lot of that territory has expensive physical games and they're cheaper online) and yes, it makes sense we have a higher digital attachment than PS4 players do. Proof? I no longer buy physical. That and I know at least six other real life owners who don't. In between this and the preload incentives I am thinking more often than not we're buying digital...
1. Don't complain of your bloody internet, it's really fast!
2. Not everyone has connections or a lot of buying savvyness. In fact, the vast majority of people have to wait until after release to buy it. Then there's the whole "Play Anywhere" thing that renders this pointless...
And what's with UK Internet? I've been there!
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Well it's all conjecture. And the only "thrustworthy" info we got were from EA saying digital was around 20% of sales (1 year ago)
To supose there are more people intending to buy or keep external drive space for X1 then there is people increasing their internal drive on PS4 is ok, but we can't infer how much that difference is (I don't think there are that many people expending hundred bucks to have external drive on X1). The other factors you put aren't quite that impactant.
So I see no issue in accept that PS4 digital is 20% and X1 30%. But when there are assumptions of PS4 being 15% and X1 being 50% things get ridiculous.
KiigelHeart said:
Well it didn't really sell only that, digital sales are more significant now than they were before :) Obviously it goes for both Sony and MS games. No-one said that only one of the two were impacted by it, or even suggested something like that. GoW4 I'm sure is more affected by digital sales than GoW3 though, especially with its digital pricing and early access. It still sold much less than GoW3 which is disappointing, but it's another studio making the game now and I'm hopeful they can make the franchise bigger again.
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Look at the quote above for evidence.
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Yeah, one year ago, for a non first party game, at a time when Play Anywhere was only a thought...
Also, it takes around 60 dollars to find a one TB external (proof, I own one). In between this and obtaining what's in a way two games for the price of one, it makes more sense to buy the digital version instead. There's less incentive to buy physical when digital downloads are half the cost. The reason behind my predictions lies in how MS has actively promoted digital sales over physical ones. Third party devs are not as lucky. After all, omitting third party games which aren't selling a lot, why the hell, for some odd reason, might this console still be outselling it's multimillion selling system? How are the guys at Redmond selling less games than before yet more consoles for some odd reason?
Besides, considering this GoW was a lot better than the previous ones in some ways, I find it incredibly weird the game hasn't sold an awful lot. Because you know, this drop seems too sharp to be a decline in prominence.
