Ubisoft reveals profit margins for physical versus digital sales on console

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Cobretti2 said:

superchunk said:
Yep. The big loser here is the retail channel. Sadly, even though overall costs to get the product to the consumer go down, the price of a digital game does not.

I'm keen to see more digital focus personally. Have no interest in obtaining physical crap any more. Its far easier to just go digital. Especially considering my belief that game consoles are going to be supported more like the mobile sphere in that there will be no loss of gaming content support between new and old hardware. Sure new hardware will scale up in power an functionality, but the core system will continue to support the older software for years to come.

At that point we may as well all become PC gamers and Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft release games on Steam lol.

Steam has proven itself to be the one digital platform that will probably outlive most of us haha

Steam is awesome. However, it is not a Switch (amazing form-factor and portability) or a dedicated console of any form. It is a PC game platform which requires PC architecture and associated problems as well as complexity. There is a reason consoles eclipsed PC gaming and are now the default build architecture. True plug-n-play experience on the TV (or in hand as in Switch). I build my own PCs and am a Software Developer, so please don't reply with nonsense about simplicity of PCs being the same as consoles... I'm not tech-ignorant but I have kids and family who are... guess which platform I get more questions from? Steam will never remove consoles. In fact, as consoles continue to drive more and more of the gaming business and expand their control scheme, I'd see Steam / PC gaming continue to decline.