Capcom says its game sales are 80% digital and rising
Four out of five games Capcom sells are distributed digitally, and the publisher believes there's still room to grow th…
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Capcom says its game sales are 80% digital and rising
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Their biggest games are not on NSW and they are the biggest revenue driver.
RE3 had a 50% digital ratio first week sales.
People who think it's out of the question that this will be the last gen with an option for physical game are being incredibly naive.
We still have physical books, movies, music etc.. and people were saying those would die out years ago. I don't see why physical games would be any less resilient.
Capcom says its game sales are 80% digital and rising
Four out of five games Capcom sells are distributed digitally, and the publisher believes there's still room to grow th…
Anyone still wanna bet that physical games are gonna go away?
I mean current circumstances considered I'm not surprised there's a big move to digital. I used to be a diehard physical stan but the convince can't be denied.
I am all for digital only hellscape if I can get digital credit trade in and used games digital market place.
Otherwise, nope.
I don't think it will be the last generation but I do see Physical getting even smaller. Not everyone wants to go digital only. The only reason my dad has a PS4 is because I gave him one. If I want to get him a game it's easier for me to go buy a physical copy since digital gifting doesn't exist on consoles.
This is a huge number. I think the pandemic is a factor to consider but I can see this number holding up after it's over.
Only thing I buy from Capcom is Monster Hunter. Being a heavily multiplayer focused game, digital is better in this regard.
Exactly that's the way it should be. Then we can reduce god knows how many tonnes of wasteful plastic, shipping etc.
You hold (and display) books. It's a physical experience. There's no equivalent for video games, so you don't lose that experience by going digital.
They're still being made so there must be a market for them. Not to mention Vinyl has been making a comeback.
digital is nightmare to me, I would happily buy them in steam bargain bin, but for things like nintendo games that stagnated at 49$-59$ I can't resale the game if I'm bored with is nightmare
There are still other benefits to physical games though. Also why do music and movies still have a physical presense then? This isn't even taking into consideration how massive games are and how shit the US internet infrastructure is.
Physical books, movies, and music all function normally without the need for an internet connection anyway. Physical games (at least, ones not on Switch) largely don't do anything. If you buy a physical copy of Call of Duty, it's functionally useless without an online connection. It's not the same thing.
Yeah if I could share my digital games with my family in my house like we do with our physical games i'd say fuck physical forever.
Not even remotely true. Maybe for MP only games, but plenty of single player games can be played straight from disc.
do cars even come with CD players anymore where are you playing them?
I don't think it will go away simply because in other medias, the physical never went away. Books, Music, Movie etc. But I can see in a generation or two that physical might become like it is for those medias. Instead of having the "standard" and "collectors" edition, the physical would be a collectors edition by itself, and the "standard" edition would be the digital.
So? I said movies not TV shows. Regardless the point is people predicated physical movies to die like a decade ago and they're still around. Why wouldn't the same apply to games?
This. They need to let you transfer the digital license, temporarily (borrowing), and permanent (reselling).
Movie theaters will probably die out if Corona virus sticks around
How do I do that as effectively with phsyical* games with 5 people with their own switches?
Standard physical will probably become a code in a box like on PC.
Publishers want you to go digital only. They want to control pricing, get higher margins, and get rid of used sales. If it ever gets to a point where they'll lose less money taking away physical than they'll make by keeping it, no amount of pro-consumer optimism will save you.
It works for Steam, it works for App Stores (the two biggest gaming communities on the planet). There are precedents in this industry for digital only working just fine.
yes
and they also sold a lot of those, from their latest released numbers
Doubtful, Movie theaters are a social activity as much as it is a media one. The industry will definitely see a decline, but movie theaters are not going anywhere. The point about COVID will be moot anyways once a vaccine comes out.
Our family car has a CD player yeah. So does my PC, and our stereo system in the living room.
Do they though? I mean, a really meaningful presence? They're now a mostly niche market for collectors and old people without the knowledge/equipment to stream. The videogame equivalent is like, dudes with rare NES carts.
I'm well aware that publishers want to go all digital. Doesn't mean that'll happen, there's still a market for physical games, even Capcom acknowledge this. Maybe in 20 - 30 years I can see us in an all digital future. But I definitely not this decade.