Cerebralbore101 on 04 August 2018
| KBG29 said: Get ready for this to happen more and more. Sony reported that full game sales were at 43% digital in Q1 2018. Not long before we hit 50, then 60, and 70, and so on. Physical games are going to be a very rare and niche thing in the time PS5 is wnding down, and PS6 is ramping up. Casual consumers care more about value and ease of use than physical. |
Putting half the game as digital is just the latest in the old scheme of making "Used Copies" worth less. Microsoft tried to charge us $10 per used game sale, when this generation started. Steam makes its games impossible to sell for a very good reason. Video Game companies don't want to have to compete with disgruntled consumers, who bought their product. So they're using tactics like these to build a moat around their company, protecting it from competition. Left unchecked, all corporations want to eventually become a monopoly with economies of scale so large that no new company could ever dream of competing with them. Once competition is gone they can charge the consumer whatever the heck they want.
