| Soundwave said: People will pay whatever publishers charge for digitally because they will have no choice otherwise, and that's basically the end of the discussion on that. If it's $70 digital, then it'll be $70 digital unless you can make your own Mario Kart or GTA or whatever. Even for home consoles, the disc drive is essentially useless. A Blu-Ray drive is basically like 50MB/sec max at top speed, that's pathetically slow when the SSD in the PS5 is 5500MB/sec. Discs are dead. That leaves cartridges, but to get equivalent speed to the UFS 3.1 internal storage the Switch 2 costs more, the same way faster speed SD Cards are more expensive than slower ones. It doesn't come for free. Once the whole "yeah but you can get the physical copy for the same price" thing goes out of the window so does most of the appeal of physical games. Sure when you could get it for the exact same cost, that's one thing, but once gamers get a taste of having to pay more, most are going to bail out and switch to digital only. But even putting that aside, virtually all 3rd party games will be Key Cards, they already are, it will get worse not better once the PS6/Next XBox show up and don't have any physical media period. |
That's the kind of arrogance that Microsoft displayed with their Xbox One, "You will buy it and you will like it."
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
