GameStop's Slow Demise and the All-Digital Future - Colin Was Right

[VAMatt]

spemanig said:

VAMatt said:

MS tried to move in this direction a few years ago and people balked.  They even introduced a very consumer friendly idea - resellable rights to digital games.  So, it appears to me that consumers are not quite ready to go all digital.

As digital sales rise dramatically every year since then.

Yes.  Digital sales have increased every years since they started.  That's does not mean that people are ready to go all digital.  

 

My point was that just three years ago, when MS talked about going all digital, gamers freaked out.  And the fact that MS intended to allow for resale rights to digital games still wasn't enough to sell them. Had MS gone ahead with their plans, I think we would basically be in that all digital future right now.  But, too many of us freaked out, MS got scared, and progress slowed on the move to digital.  

 

I think we're 5 years away.