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cusman on 28 June 2012

In 2012

100% of my TV / Movie viewing has been through Streaming (Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu)

100% of my Playstation Vita games have been digital purchase

10% of my 3DS games have been digital purchase

70% of my PS3 games have been digital purchase

10% of my X360 games have been digital purchase

None of this is intentional... I have a strong preference for digital, but I wont pass on retail release to wait for digital. I also need HDD space before I can buy the digital version. My 500 GB PS3 HDD is nearly full (maybe last 100 GB from 2012).



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cusman on 28 June 2012
crissindahouse said:

would be great to know how they got the data. i remember a funny story when a former math prof of mine told us about a survery he read in a magazine about universities. it was about a lot of different things. then he saw something about the university (which said it is bad there) and he thought it can't be true because he was on some universities and in his opinion this university was the best of all for that. he then called the magazine to ask how they did the survey and they said they asked students how they think about that. when he asked how many they asked on this university the magazine responded "we asked two students" looooool, so maybe one of both said "it's bad" haha

Moral of story: Don't trust any study results that don't disclose the sample size and population polled.



cusman on 28 June 2012
Badassbab said:
I'm really surprised by that. Personally I've bought way more digital stuff on 360. Maybe MS points are putting potential buyers off....

Still do wonder if that 17% figure includes stuff you can download for 'free' on PS Plus.

I don't like MS Points... I like the PSN Wallet which shows $$$ and everything is priced in $. The other reason I buy a lot more digital on PS3 than X360 is that I have bigger (was cheaper) HDD for my PS3 and the PS+ subscription gives great discounts and lots of free games as well.



SvennoJ on 28 June 2012
cusman said:
Badassbab said:
I'm really surprised by that. Personally I've bought way more digital stuff on 360. Maybe MS points are putting potential buyers off....

Still do wonder if that 17% figure includes stuff you can download for 'free' on PS Plus.

I don't like MS Points... I like the PSN Wallet which shows $$$ and everything is priced in $. The other reason I buy a lot more digital on PS3 than X360 is that I have bigger (was cheaper) HDD for my PS3 and the PS+ subscription gives great discounts and lots of free games as well.

Same here. I bought MS points once and have been left with a useless 240 points for the past 2 years.
My 360 hdd is 20gb vs 160gb in the ps3 and since I got Netflix I have no reason anymore to use Zune.

Buying on psn is simple, enter password, shows up on my credit card.
On 360 I'm converting points to dollars, checking what I can combine to get to a total point value that's for sale, then see I have to go to a store not to get ripped off by buying it through the 360 in 500 point increments and simply give up on the whole excercise.



Dallinor on 28 June 2012
Nem said:
I think this is totally related to the fact microsoft practices criminal bordering prices.

I mean... skyrim for 70 euros on Xbox live... why would anyone get that when you can buy its for 50 euros on a regular shop.

PSN has alot better deals.

It's about €35-€40 euro at any place near me and that's not even searching for a bargain.

A friend of mine picked it up at €25 just 3 weeks after launch from Game.



 

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DirtyP2002 on 29 June 2012
kowenicki said:
Why are people banging on about full price games... where does it even mention that it is solely about those? If it IS solely about full price digital versions of retail games then I can believe it as both MS and SONY are frankly ripping people off with those...

If it isn't solely about full price retail games, then I am sorry but I guarantee that from just XBLA there have been more downloads than is mentioned here.


1.5 million people buying digital stuff on consoles (PS3 & 360) in the whole UK is a joke with a userbase of 13 million.

CoD mappacks alone in the UK probably exceeded this number.

CoD Black Ops DLC generated 250 million USD alone and that game sold 14% of its worldwide sales in UK.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-dlc-map-packs-generated-250-million/

 

So that would mean 35 million USD spent in the UK, which would mean 2.3 million downloads, $15 each.

I know, not the most reliable data (currency etc) but it still proves my point that their data is even worse. Add Battlefield 3, Uncharted, Gears of War etc etc and you get the idea that 500k is not realistic at all.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 29 June 2012

Lol, I call BS on this survey.



Yay!!!

The Fury on 29 June 2012
DirtyP2002 said:

1.5 million people buying digital stuff on consoles (PS3 & 360) in the whole UK is a joke with a userbase of 13 million.

CoD mappacks alone in the UK probably exceeded this number.

CoD Black Ops DLC generated 250 million USD alone and that game sold 14% of its worldwide sales in UK.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-dlc-map-packs-generated-250-million/

So that would mean 35 million USD spent in the UK, which would mean 2.3 million downloads, $15 each.

I know, not the most reliable data (currency etc) but it still proves my point that their data is even worse. Add Battlefield 3, Uncharted, Gears of War etc etc and you get the idea that 500k is not realistic at all.

Me, my brother, some of his friends, 2 of my housemates all own Black ops (yes we are sheep) but not one of us bought the rip off DLC or map packs.

These figures are probably right because it's based on people not individual sales/downloads. I only download free demos and free DLC, I never pay for any DLC. Last game I bought was Wipeout HD when that first came out and it's expansion when that came out, that was over 2 years ago.



Hmm, pie.

DirtyP2002 on 29 June 2012
The Fury said:
DirtyP2002 said:

1.5 million people buying digital stuff on consoles (PS3 & 360) in the whole UK is a joke with a userbase of 13 million.

CoD mappacks alone in the UK probably exceeded this number.

CoD Black Ops DLC generated 250 million USD alone and that game sold 14% of its worldwide sales in UK.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-dlc-map-packs-generated-250-million/

So that would mean 35 million USD spent in the UK, which would mean 2.3 million downloads, $15 each.

I know, not the most reliable data (currency etc) but it still proves my point that their data is even worse. Add Battlefield 3, Uncharted, Gears of War etc etc and you get the idea that 500k is not realistic at all.

Me, my brother, some of his friends, 2 of my housemates all own Black ops (yes we are sheep) but not one of us bought the rip off DLC or map packs.

These figures are probably right because it's based on people not individual sales/downloads. I only download free demos and free DLC, I never pay for any DLC. Last game I bought was Wipeout HD when that first came out and it's expansion when that came out, that was over 2 years ago.

So ...

 

anecdotal evidence > Logic.

Cool story bro!



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

The Fury on 29 June 2012
DirtyP2002 said:
The Fury said:

Me, my brother, some of his friends, 2 of my housemates all own Black ops (yes we are sheep) but not one of us bought the rip off DLC or map packs.

These figures are probably right because it's based on people not individual sales/downloads. I only download free demos and free DLC, I never pay for any DLC. Last game I bought was Wipeout HD when that first came out and it's expansion when that came out, that was over 2 years ago.

So ...

anecdotal evidence > Logic.

Cool story bro!

Logic based on presumed numbers is not fact, just a theoretical calculation. I can do it too.

250 million sales, and 14% of the Black ops sold was in the UK alone. But because me and all my mate didn't buy the DLC, we can assume that this is the common pattern that people don't by the DLC. Let's be optomistic and say 25% do. 25% of 14% is 3.5%. 250 million by 3.5% is only 8.75 million by the $15 you mentioned is only 580 thousand downloads.

 

These figures aer probably direct from Sony and MS just interpreted by another company. 



Hmm, pie.