The state of digital sales on Playstation

[DonFerrari]

Ka-pi96 said:

DonFerrari said:

There is this as well... I really preffer hardcopies of the stuffs I own and like... and only buy digital games when they are dirty cheap... like going on EB games or the like and see a somewhat old game at 40 and there is a PSN+ promotion puting that same game bellow 10... that is the point I consider buying it, otherwise I want my disc and be able to share with someone... although my leecher brother loves when I buy digital and he can share from accross the continent.

heh, same here. Digital games are almost exclusively for when there is a sale on or something. Well, except PC of course

I don't do PC, but yes, with so much sales there being digital is a no brainer.

KBG29 said:
Lots of great news from Sony. Going to be very interesting to see what they do to attempt to fend off XOX and Switch this holiday. Looking forward to some huge Bundles for Slim an Pro, possibly a price cut, and definitly some absurd PSN flash sales.

It is no surprise digital is doing so well. The massive increase in value, flexability, ease of use, and security are amoung a few reasons why I went all digital almost a decade ago. I really hope we see PS4 digital only editions eventually, at a discounted price. It would be really nice to have both a PS5 with 4K Blu-ray and Digitaly Only from Day One.I fully expect digital sales to pass 50% before the launch of PS5.

I am also very interested to see the more social focused and "casual" games they are going to bring out. I am not really into the whole Playlink thing, as I absolutley detest smartphones, but I would love to see Motion games come back, and a return to weekly Singstar updates. As much as I love God of War, The Last of Us, Gran Turismo, Horizon and the rest of Sony's unmatched core offerings, these late life titles that I enjoy with Friends and Family are always my favorite.

My wife loves singing games and since my boy is almost 3y some casual and simple games will come in hand.

I have no desire to be really digital only. But having a cheaper version of the console for digital only (maybe even a streaming version only as well)... something like PS5, PS5DO, PSStreamBox going like 400, 350, 200. I would totally support.

COKTOE said:

I was so pissed off when my Vita memory card problems, which have been going on for years, culminated in a 32gb card straight up dying, that I haven't bought a digital game on any platform since January. Yeah, I know, back it up so you don't have to re-download, but I have 8 Vita memory cards, 5 of which are 32gb, so it's easy to fall behind on maintenance. The card that died already had stuff re-downloaded several times as well, and with the limit Sony places on how many times a purchase can be re-done, I could be screwed when I try to do it again, and have to call Sony to plead my case. Yay digital. At least all my save data was backed up on the PS+ servers. Incidentally, I would have placed my purchases at around 40% digital before I went 100% physical. I'll eventually crack, and buy digital again, because there are digital-only games I want.

The 3 times I really needed PSN+ to work (the main reason I have it is cloud saves) I was bit in the but. On PS3 GT6 the game saved a corrupted file on the cloud at the same time it did in the console and Sony couldn't retrieve previous save. The automatic saving only working on main console is another issue. So I keep the PSN+ for just the sake of keeping the backup and some offers.

Kerotan said:
The profit margins on the psn store must be through the roof. Sounds extremely Lcurative for Sony

Yep, Shu is probably very happy toad now.