Good point.

Though, again the audience for PC games are completely different to those who play primarily on consoles. People who have been gaming on PC before Steam and the like know how much hassle it is to keep games on their computer/s. Managing games library, manually update stuff, not to mention the technical jargon involved in getting the games running. Keeping them all under roof and having a unified platform for most games on the market for PC games has been a boon for a lot of people.

The same thing can't be said for a console gamers who've been accustomed to playing on retail discs bought from stores/online. And do not have the means to play them by just downloads. It might sound silly but having a bad/limited interenet connection can put consumers off buying a product especially when it doesn't effectively work out of the box like their previous machine. PC's at the end of the day still function as, well computers. Consumers have the choice on what they buy. PC gamers don't have the choice so it is generally accepted.

But anyway, long story short.. I just don't see it working out for consoles (for now). After several marked attempts from multiple manufacturers who venture in this most of them end up doing pretty badly. Anyway, an all digital console is inevitable.. it just wont be a thing for a while until everybody jump on board.

It took about 5 years for pc to go from media to digital, at actual push. I think it would probably take the same. ms could do this possibly, but sony actually has better foundation in place to do it first with psnow.

Yeah, you can already see MS and Sony push more digital content much more this generation and it has only just begun. Its like what you said.. both companies will use online services and digital content as a trojan horse to that end.

MS are undoubtedly on this. They were spearheading in that direction with the Xbox One before the whole 'always online' DRM debacle came up. What stopped it from happening? People didn't buy it. Thus the Xbox One they have envisioned never came to be. Which makes me think that an all-digital console from both camps is still a long way away. About Sony.. I'm not sure, but I'm certain they must be on the same, or (at the very least) on a similar wavelength.

Y'know.. I'd actually laugh if Nintendo beats them both to the punch. By releasing their new console as an all digital device and succeeding, at that.

I think it would be funnier if MS push the pre-180 onto consumers with the new SKU. THanks for playing guys, we appreciated all those day 1 sales!

shikamaru317 said:

What do you mean "kill off those sales"? The people that bought those copies all have disc-drive Xbox One's, they would still be able to play them. Each of those games is available digitally, so the purchasers of the disc-less Xbox One could play those games.