Mar1217 said:
vivster said:
Good points, but it completely ignores a whole section of gamers, namely young people. These habits only come from people who grew up with physical games. Every child that was born in the past decade will already be accustomed to digital sales, both for games and any other media. Basically all of the "worries" posted can be overcome by technological advancement or the changing of habits. There is no rational need to buy physical very soon and suddenly convenience will overtake.
As for the convenience of downloading, having to juggle many games is a fringe case. Consoles have ample space for a number of games to be there at the same time. Even the biggest games can be loaded in less than a day for most people, which is faster than having it delivered and sometimes even faster than going to a store. Not to mention just downloading a game and having them directly there to access is so much more convenient than actually having to physically acquire something and then still having to install it for quite some time. I mean, please show me single person who constantly has to redownload their old games because they had to delete them constantly because they were downloading new games to play. That's not how most people consume games.
Maybe you shouldn't just look at the increased sales of mega blockbusters and instead recognize that a good portion of consumed games today doesn't even have physical options anymore. There are way more games these days downloaded digitally than purchased physically.
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If you want to go with the mobile/PC market angle which is almost a 100% share that sure seems a fair way of comparaison. To make this analysis clearer you need games that are available in more than one medium cuz I certainly won't refute the newfound digital market that came with the surge of Indies and digital only software.
Then, we're also at a point where these previously only digital titles can also be sold on a physical medium which shows flexibility in the other range as well.
Like I said, this will paint more as an aditive in the future.
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Wait, which form are you calling the additive?
