Which side are you on: Digital or Physical?

[Angelus]

SvennoJ said:

Angelus said:

Basically, I'm on the side of convenience. Discs are pointless, and the sooner we eliminate them entirely, the sooner the digital marketplace on consoles can reach it's full potential (see Steam for reference)

That might turn out quite different to what you're hoping for. Steam has competition, PSN/XBL do not. The only competition digital prices have is from boxed copies. But be free to believe that digital prices are artificially held high to appease shops.

Steam has competition in the way that iTunes has competition lol

And it has very little to do with appeasing shops. It's simply that publishers don't want to devalue all the product they have sitting on shelves by lowering the prices of their digital counterparts. They wanna sellthrough as many of those physical copies at the best price they can, or else printing all those discs was a huge loss. The PC market doesn't have that problem, because....well the physical market is dead lol. So no, it will not turn out to be quite different