I hope they day never comes where consoles go all digital. I love my physical copies. You're just stuck with a game, if it sucks, if you buy digital. Physical, i can atleast trade it to somebody for another game that i want, or sell it online.

I hope they day never comes where consoles go all digital. I love my physical copies. You're just stuck with a game, if it sucks, if you buy digital. Physical, i can atleast trade it to somebody for another game that i want, or sell it online.

| Zoombael said: Less important? Is that even possible? |
Well, console market makes about 60 % of multiplats sales. Sony, MS and Nin are very big game publishers.
Miguel_Zorro said:
Yup. There's going to be very little reason to have a physical console at some point. |
I Really hope that this isn't true, not even in 100 Years the consoles will die, is just Microsoft, trying to make money on other place because their console cannot take the most Market Share, and on the Console market the most important think is Market Share, while on PC, this does not matter, they only need to make a Good Store, without crazy things, and there really isn't any cost to port from "Steam Store", to "Windows Store", the games would became even less quality than they are today.
The Worldwide internet, need to be at the Highest level to this think to succeed, I'm living on the second Biggest city in the country that is also one of the top 10 Biggest country for Worldwide economy, and only because i'm not near the center of the city, more on the West Edge, i cannot order a Internet Account, here are not any company selling internet, we need to go to the Company and order the internet as a Company, this is the only way to get it, there isn't a "Othewise", or you own a company around here, and order a internet for it, or you will only be able to acess internet with Smartphone.
Now look at the others countries with a even wrose situation, the ones that now are growing with the Video Game Market, and even the Highest quality countries, some don't have the Internet speed to do this. Streaming (the only thing that would overtake those devices) would be too much for a lot of people, because of that Xbox One, had a poor launch and a lot of Videos making joke of it.
Latin America, for example, is a market that is growing, and already is more than 4 Billions of US$ on Video game Revenue, if they go with those services, they will lose Much money from countries that cannot use Streaming, and will lose money from the ones from the countries that can, but the user don't have a good internet.
No one can look this far into the future, because things change and you don't know what will change, and how will be the world in the future, Kill something that is making money, and that is each generation with more and more players, is something pretty silly, the one who start this, will be Kicked from the market, Xbox One, just tried to make just the Edge of it on the Launch, and because of that was Erased from the First place, and has broken all the Xbox 360's Mommentum, Why do you think that Sony, is famous Worldwide ?, is because is the one that sell the most on a lot of regions, but really is the King of the Pal Regions.

KingofTrolls said:
Well, console market makes about 60 % of multiplats sales. Sony, MS and Nin are very big game publishers. |
They make much more than that, Playstation's Revenue alone is Multiple times bigger than Steam's Revenue, and Steam, as result of a research, is 70% of all the Triple A Games distribution for the PC Market, the biggest Triple A Game on PC, only did 200-220 Millions of revenue and was GTA V, was by far the number 1, and it also made more Digital Money on console on the same year, than on PC, on consoles they made 330-350 Millions of US$, without the physical copies.
Console Market, is atleast 85-95% of the Triple A Market's Revenue, as i said before, anyone dumb enought to focus on PC, will be kicked from the race.

| Swordmasterman said: They make much more than that, Playstation's Revenue alone is Multiple times bigger than Steam's Revenue, |
Well, PC guyz plays mostly DOta Lol World of Warcraft Hots etc. The market is locked.
If we talk about Playstation Revenue, Sony grabs a huge bite of it.
| TheDeleter said: No suprise. Its 2016, having a dedicated box under your TV is pretty pointless when there are other ways to provide games. |
Can u name 2-3 ways of getting the games ? AAA games.
KingofTrolls said:
Well, PC guyz plays mostly DOta Lol World of Warcraft Hots etc. The market is locked. If we talk about Playstation Revenue, Sony grabs a huge bite of it. |
MMORPG, and Free to play games, are a different market, they have a lot of fierce followers, i Played only League of Legends, for over 2 years, now i'm back to the console market, before that i did not had a proper english to understand the plot of the games, and they were not on my language, but now that i'm finally much more into the Console market, they need to disapear ?, for Good, or for Bad, if Microsoft, try spinning crazy politics around, and one of those that will harm the market is accepted by the consumer's Wallet, soon enought Sony, and Nintendo, will follow this, just like "Pay for play online" Microsoft, did it for the whole generation, while Sony, did not, but on the actual generation, because it did right with the Xbox, now Sony, has followed this move.
I Hope that all this shit of "Focusing more on PC" flops, otherwise the other companies will follow it, even Call of Duty, made Resident Evil 6, one of the worse in the series, because the developers tried to Copycat Call of Duty, and this is what the market do, they copycat what the leader is doing, for example, if The Witcher 3, was the Market's Leader, we would see much more Single Player RPG Games, and so on.
What each company make on the Console Market, affect the entire market, so when someone begin to do bullshit, this is something to worry about, because of the Console, and the Video Game market.

| kowenicki said: Hardly a ballsy prediction. Consoles will be less important for all companies. |
Even for Nintendo?

| Swordmasterman said: "Pay for play online" Microsoft, did it for the whole generation, while Sony, did not, but on the actual generation, because it did right with the Xbox, now Sony, has followed this move. |
Have to agree, sadly.
| Miguel_Zorro said: So it's simultaneously hardware and not hardware? Schrodinger's NX? |
No it's like iOS. It's not hardware at all. It's just excusive to specific hardware.