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Frogger on 10 October 2015
Cobretti2 said:

So you are saying I will get my staues, remote controlled cars and hover crafts, fridges, books, etc...

I have bought 2-3 copies of certain games (and I know others who have also) just so they cna gave some full sets of their favourite franchise. 

Like it or not physical limited editions drive profits up. When you can sell a batman statue that costs like $10 to make for an extra $50 ontop on the cost of the game it is a no brainer. Matmobile edition was about $150 more than the base game in Aus. Till they pulled it. THey were sellign on eBay for $600 too so clearly there was a demand for them


I don't understand what you are trying to say with the first sentence, but the amount of people who buy more than one copy of any game is 0.01% of any games sales total. They don't care if those people only buy one when they switch to digital, because the impact people like you make on the overall sales of those games is do insignificant that it's negligable. You don't need a physical copy of a game to sell a statue. Digital collectors editions already exist.



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DevilRising on 10 October 2015

Nintendo has made comments to the effect of "physical games aren't going anywhere" within the past couple years, so I'm really not that worried.



Frogger on 10 October 2015
DevilRising said:
Nintendo has made comments to the effect of "physical games aren't going anywhere" within the past couple years, so I'm really not that worried.


No, they have not.



chakkra on 10 October 2015

I agree to a certain extend with spemanig  here.  In the last couple of years we have been watching a desire (and a trend) from all companies in the industry to go full digital.  And I believe that in a not so distant future we will be there.  

BUT I also believe the market is not ready for that yet.  And it will not be ready by the time NX arrives.  So I truly doubt that Nintendo will go that route with their next console.   And if they do..  well, I think they will regret it.



Ruler on 10 October 2015
spemanig said:
Ruler said:

they buy them to play, and playing them when ever they want is a huge part of gaming. Which is not the case if these netwroks are down, shut down completley or if simple your internet stops working for a period of time.


You don't understand digital at all. You can play them offline. You don't need a constant internet connection to play games digitally. The scenario you're describing would never happen unless the game was an online game, in which case UH DUH.


Yeah but you cant redownload games, point is youre restricted



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Frogger on 10 October 2015
Ruler said:

Yeah but you cant redownload games, point is youre restricted


First, yes you can redownload digital games. Second, why would you need to redownload the game? Half the convenience of digital is that you have all your games playable at the touch of a button.



Blob on 10 October 2015
spemanig said:
Blob said:


2 full days If the 24 gig halo patch was anything to go by. Delays on the sever end don't help us with slow internet. Digital only for a major company is still a long way off, no point cutting out potential  and current consumers 


Valve is a major company. Steam has 125m+ active users. They wouldn't be cutting out anyone they wouldn't replace with three new consumers in their place. This is getting redundant.


Guess they can sod me right off then, I don't matter. Its not like I'm a steady stream of income for  companies.



Frogger on 10 October 2015
Blob said:

Guess they can sod me right off then, I don't matter. Its not like I'm a steady stream of income for  companies.


No offense, but there are more than enough "steady streams of income" to replace you as an individual. I don't own a PS4 because paying to play games online is bogus. Think I matter to Sony? Nope. There are more than enough people willing to buy a PS4 even with its taxed online for Sony to gleefully "sod me right off," and the same will be true when the NX is digital only.



Ruler on 10 October 2015
spemanig said:
Ruler said:

Yeah but you cant redownload games, point is youre restricted


First, yes you can redownload digital games. Second, why would you need to redownload the game? Half the convenience of digital is that you have all your games playable at the touch of a button.


Space goes more quickley away than you think.you have to delete something, espacially on consoles who have 2.5 harddrives



Why i left PC gaming

 

(2015) Question for PS4 owners: if the situation would be reverse? would you still play on PS4?

(2015) The "I don't care PS4 is the most powerful console" thread

Frogger on 10 October 2015
Ruler said:

Space goes more quickley away than you think.you have to delete something, espacially on consoles who have 2.5 harddrives


I'm all digital on both my 3DS and Wii U, and I'm not even close to filling up either. I buy more games than the average consumer by 10 miles. I think I have a pretty good handling on the practicality of a digital only plaform.