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Cerebralbore101 on 17 April 2020
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DonFerrari said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
A digital-only Nintendo system? Lol you guys are just asking to lose your games! How many Wii/GC games can be played on Switch? How many Wii/GC games have been remastered or re-released? All it takes is for you to lose your Switch HDD to corruption + Nintendo pulling support for the Switch eShop. Now all your games are gone.

As far as pulling data to prove that digital sells more than physical goes, that's not going to help at all. Most Indies on Switch are only available in physical form in extremely limited quantities. People will naturally buy more indies than they do $60 games, due to the price difference.

I mean, I'm 100% physical when it comes to $60 games, but still have 40-50 digital indies on my Switch. So according to some digital vs physical bean counters, I'm 50% digital on Switch!

Well the comparison for 50/50 is done on retail games also, basically was 20/80 the start of this gen and now is about 50/50 and soon to be 66/33.

Lots of Indies are retail in limited versions though. So I think you'd still have the effect of seeing a 10:1 digital to physical ratio for a lot of indies that have a limited edition physical retail version.

Don't get me wrong, I know physical game sales are plummeting. I just think the bean counters aren't seeing the forest for the trees. They aren't taking important factors into their equations. If we could do a digital:physical comparison between $60 games on PS4/XB1/Switch, that only included games in stock at most retailers, and include used games sales, I think we'd be sitting at around a 50:50 number right now.

But if you want to throw in Indies that don't really have physical versions outside of limited releases, PC games that are digital-only, games that are 5+ years old and not on store shelves anymore, I'm sure it's something like 70:30 in favor of digital sales.