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He's right. It's gonna happen. Music has, film is going that way already, and games will follow. It's just evolution. Soon all you will need is your TV.



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selnor said:
He's right. It's gonna happen. Music has, film is going that way already, and games will follow. It's just evolution. Soon all you will need is your TV.

If anything music example is clearly showing people are not going to resign from physical media.

Sure a lot of people is buying music in digital form but CDs are still selling.



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Zlejedi said:
selnor said:
He's right. It's gonna happen. Music has, film is going that way already, and games will follow. It's just evolution. Soon all you will need is your TV.

If anything music example is clearly showing people are not going to resign from physical media.

Sure a lot of people is buying music in digital form but CDs are still selling.


Not well, they are over 100 million less in sales for Cd's WW last time I checked than what they were 5 years ago. If I remeber rightly downloads for music are up more than 150 million ( $ i mean. ) CD sales have dropped drastically. And Film downloads account for more of the market than BluRay does. So it's inevitable. Certainly in 10 years as SE say it's very possible to be download orientated for everything.



Euphoria14 said:

I truly hope we keep things on physical formats. Going to all digital distribution worries me because not only will I never own the game, bring it a friend's house, sell it, etc... but I doubt these companies would even lower their asking price.

I feel it will end up as a "Pay more, get less" scenario.

If they do this and games like Final Fantasy release for $35 however, that's a bit different, but everyone with an idea of how this has been going so far knows full well the games will release at $50-60, just as they do now.

Only difference will be that this time you don't really "own" what you paid for.

Steam has sales all the time.



Slimebeast said:
Possibly in 20 years, if lucky.


10 years is probably much closer to the Mark.  People always forget or fail to understand Moore's Law.  Right now infrastructure is constraining, but wireless will eventually overcome the bandwidth limitations.



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well wada it's ALWAYS wrong.



Crystalchild said:
call me oldschool, but i want to stay with Physical media, i want to look at my games even if i am not playing. i want to look at my shelf and think - yay, just a couple more games, and i need another shelf. ^_^

:(

Yup.  You are oldschool and unfortunately for you a dying breed.
I for one have more space in my house without the almost endless stacks of movie, music and game cases and books cluttering up my shelves and walls.  I will miss being able to get inexpensive used games and perhaps getting a few bucks back when selling them off but that won't stop me from embracing the benefits of digital downloads.



selnor said:
He's right. It's gonna happen. Music has, film is going that way already, and games will follow. It's just evolution. Soon all you will need is your TV.

Also the fact that DD brings in a lot more money to the actual developers of a game. As games becomes more expensive which in turns greatly increases the risk of investing in  these games, it only a amount of time before the best games will move to DD only.  Stardock claimed they made more money on a DD only expansion pack for one of their games than the game itself. It's just so expensive to market a hard copy of a game.



This is what Malstrom has been saying. Game developers do not care what the comsumer wants but what they want. I hope they go in the toilet



PC gaming is... dieing?