Are physical games eventually going to die?

[SvennoJ]

Chrkeller said:

SvennoJ said:

Why would they? People are already fine paying the same or more for digital. The more physical disappears, the more easily they can drive the digital prices up and keep them the same for longer. Digital has always been more expensive, takes longer to go on sale, has no resale value or options, and is still the most popular. The chances of digital prices to go down is virtually zero.

Instead of digital to go down I see physical becoming more and more expensive when it becomes a niche and limited run games is the only way to get physical releases :/ It's already the case with indie games, those are now cheaper digitally than limited run editions.

To expedite the dropping of physical.  Physical has to cut into profits comparative to digital.

Also because steam is cheaper.....  and if Sony keeps porting to PC....  and PC has free online, interesting situation, at least for me.

Physical will just become more expensive. Sony is not going to drop digital prices. Those still buying physical releases either have no choice (bad internet) or are collectors that will stick with physical for as long as possible. Even if Digital dropped to $50 for new releases I would still buy the $70 physical version.

The market has spoken. People pre-order digital releases like hotcakes and don't mind paying extra to play a few days early...

Dunno about Steam, Sony doesn't port its games to PC day 1. So it doesn't matter if it's cheaper on Steam.