Hopefully in the end the EU will step in and say they must sell keys via third party or allow rival store fronts on each console.
These numbers are heavily skewed by Sunbreak being digital only outside Japan
That estimate is fiscal year not calendar year I believe (so until the end of March 2023). Therefore that digital % would still be heavily impacted by Sunbreak.
PS have shown how easy it is to pull these keys and force you to buy at their price. I can see legislation stopping it if the other 2 try.
I'm not 100% certain but i think once they go digital only, they will have to allow third party keys on their store fronts. I'm sure there was some ruling with the PC store fronts. I mean even EA and Ubisoft allow third party keys on their launchers, and no way would they do that if they had a choice, especially EA lol.
I have experienced this digital physical situation going from a healthy physical games country to a dying one and it is abysmal.
Considering what these retro games go for, the reselling of a physical collection point isn't a void one. The problem now is that a lot of games are not really on the 'disc' any more. You can't just pop them in and start playing them without an internet collection. They usually have some launcher on there and you still have to download some huge file from the internet, so discs now are essentially worthless. However, games on older systems, you can often sell a lot of them for hundreds of dollars. I love digital, but we have to admit that digital has given publishers a lot more control. How much more often do disc games go on sale, despite it costing more to actually print up discs vs uploading the game to some storefront?
And pirate... and when that happens, companies will start making discounts, like, you know, the ones we're getting all the time on digital storefronts... IDK, I MAYBE get your point but I don't see how that issue has already happened and solved... Are you guys new to digital somehow?
You'd prefer people not having the option to resell?
But people will still make record players. If Sony and Microsoft don't add drives next generation (I don't think they will), that's it.
Not even that, the digital storefronts have absurd sales since forever and Steam even has a refund system that is completely fair IMO, that's why I can't get the "saving money" argument... Well, maybe because "buying and reselling" has never been an option to me, that I can see, but even then if it was, I would just go digital considering I get games on the cheap there more often than not
The selling part is really only applicable around launch. A game like Ragnarok I am buying the disc for $70 and a week or two later when I beat it I will be able to sell for at least $50, maybe $60 (before fee/shipping). If I bought it digital I would be stuck having paid $70 and I probably won't even play it again for a few years.
Well, even when I admit that it's a good advantage, that's exactly one of the problems companies would have with the format... I mean, come on, it's not out interest to defend but something we can at least understand or not? If people are buying and reselling all the time that's less money, and can't blame companies for trying to avoid that situation when some people exploit that system way too much.
Oh yeah I totally get why a publisher would prefer digital only, definitely. I'm just explaining a use case for physical and why it is advantageous. Like I said if things go all digital I am absolutely going to keep buying games, just much less at launch. But hey, for a publisher that might end up as a wash for them anyway since they wouldn't have my second hand selling that cuts out another possible digital sale.
Ye fuck physical, i hope it All goes Digital in the future. I can see it now, you entering your home fucking machine to empty the jimmies because no touching in the future,,, just like that Stallone Sci Fi movie.
Embrace your all digital AI future
Maybe by some corporate exec like many of the people applauding here..
I'm guessing English isn't your first language because I have no clue what you're trying to say.
I was going to say there's still movies, but eh hasn't that also suffered from the digital services?
Xbox also already has a good refund system.
Yeahhhhhhhhh, that's a VERY good point, lol.
I don't remember the name of the movie, it's in the a future with no crime, no swearing and no physical interactions, not even kissing. So people have fucking machines at home, this pretty chambers that connects to the brain and gives you a virtual fuck. All digital future.
Yeah, that's basically the same as no disc drive on the PS6.
Demolition man
Well the disk is useless already most games barely hold data on the disc. Anybody else feel like we already have some sort of low level drm and the disc is new way companies check for proof of purchase.
That's it!
An all-digital console with no disc option would kill a large chunk of backward compatibility.
