This actually warrants a topic?

They won't stop selling at retailers but they clearly rather sell digital copies. You can read the writing on the wall when in every quarterly report the focus is on digital sales and how much they have grown compared to previous years. Go check the latest EA and Activision press releases...( and every new retailer program to cash on used game sales is only speeding up that process).

Music has gone digital, books are going digital, games are doing the same. Yet all those medium still have physical copies too but you can see the impact on physical retailers when only 10% of sales move from physical to digital...( been to your local Borders lately or checked the PC shelf at your local Best Buy ?).

As for your CoD example, it's not really convincing me. CoD is one game where Activision clearly has the edge over retailers because retailers can not afford not to have those games on sales.  No matter what CoD fans will get their copies( there's a reason it's was the most preordered game this gen). If retailers can put some pressure, it's on the small publishers, not on companies like EA or Activision...

Activision just reported the highest net income for a third party in the last 20 years or so ( they made a little over a billion$ of profit in 2011 with some of the highest margins third party have ever achieved) so despite what most armchair ceos on this site are saying, I would say it's fair to think that they at least know what they have been doing with their franchises, especially Cod and that their financial results demonstrate that their strategy was the right one.......

i think you will find the 'Playstation' group are filled with ALOT more diverse gamers then on xbox.

only now the xbox has.. di.. gone after the causual market has it beocome diverse in 'FPS fans, Dance fans' wich is an odd but funny combanation. 

but i would still say the Playstation as a whole has alot wider and diverse group of gamers then anything else

i agree with you

that's the reason many Wii games are underappriciated, because the main Wii audience does not buy those games, therefore it is not safe to say ''Ps3/Xbox360 have more quality titles because of more million sellers''

he says ''PS3&360 million sellers have many more high quality titles than Wii's'', because Wii million sellers are not of his tastes anyway

it's taste, he sees quality, i don't, Ps3/Xbox 360 are mainly shooters and some great RPG'S here and there, Wii has more diversity in games, more balanced, especially more platformers which is the genre i like

and the reason Xbox360 got Ps3 in 2011, it's because they decided to follow Nintendo, and more beyond the shooters for once, with Kinect

It's a silly argument. Digital won't become anywhere near dominant around the world for another 10, maybe 20 years for this to even matter. On top of that, EA's digital movements are more concerned with getting a foothold against the competition (Origin vs. Steam) than phasing out retail.  If Activision's current strategy is anything to go by, they're more focused on squeezing more money after the initial purchase, hence CoD Elite and the Skylanders figurines.

Packaged games going digital aren't comparable to books and music because games are HUGE. We've got PS3/4 using blu-ray, Wii U using the blu-ray equivalent, and there's no way 720 won't be there too. That's games that are potentially 25+ GB in size, when there are still major areas that don't have decent internet. Nobody's going to suicide their business if they don't have to.

But this discussion is moot because it doesn't even apply to Wii U. Its internal storage won't be any more of a "problem" than it was for 360 or PS3, so even if digital sales took over 50% of packaged retail next gen, it wouldn't stop these games from being available on Wii U's eshop.