No Physical Media for Next Gen?

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CaptainExplosion said:

S.Peelman said:
As a side-note, what would the incentive be for stores to still carry a company’s consoles if they can’t sell the games? Stores don’t make much off the systems themselves (unless used).

Well, EB Games has lately been selling toys, board games, socks, t-shirts, water bottles, lamps, ceramic cookie jars, and more geeky non-gaming stuff. Guess game stores are starting to restructure their business.

Barkley said:

Even with just 10mbit broadband you'll download a 100gb game in under 30 hours.

I imagine most people who purchase physical copies order them online too from Amazon or another online retailer, so unless you have next-day (e.g. prime) it'll take longer to get the physical game delivered then it will to download it even on a slow internet connection.

The wait is only longer compared to buying in-store.

Datacaps are an issue for countries that have them, UK doesn't really.

Do Canada or the United States have datacaps?

Depends on the contract and provider of course, but yes, the US have data caps.

https://broadbandnow.com/internet-providers-with-data-caps