Digital, is it really worth the aggravation?

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Conina said:

thismeintiel said:
Really I laugh when people talk about digital being the future, as in near future. We are decades away from digital even being close to taking over. This gen, the average for the big games has been ~30% digital. That's a good chunk, but that's hardly the kiss of death to physical.

30% of the main games may be physical, but 100% of season passes and DLCs and pre-order bonuses and many of the smaller games are 100% digital. Even on most consoles, the total digital revenue will be already higher than the total physical revenue.

And if you look at the big picture and include the video game revenue of PC and mobile, digital ain't the future, it is the present.

That's kinda comparing apples and oranges. Sure lumping everything together it was 776 million pounds for physical software in 2016 vs 2.2 billion pounds for everything digital including mobile. http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/era-2016-physical-games-revenue-down-16-4-year-on-year-but-digital-up-12-1/0177257

Yet when it comes to full game sales there's this prediction
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-06-08-digital-games-to-account-for-a-third-of-console-revenues-in-2020-pwc

Switch is bringing the cartridge back, games only keep growing in size. My internet certainly can't keep up with game sizes. It will be a while before it's even possible to go all digital for a lot of people.