Is there much pain ordering them as a physical item? You'll get them 12 hours after the digital release, unless you buy from Simplygames or another place that sends games out early. They fit through your letterbox so you don't need to be home when they're delivered.
Wouldn't you rather just have more money to spend on impulse purchases? If you bought three digital games physically instead, the money left over could be used to buy a fourth game.
I won't pre-order games because I want to see how they turn out. Reviews, bugs etc. But because I do this, if I buy physical, I have to wait at least 3 days after release until I can play the game, while the package is being delivered. Then another hour to drive and get the package from pickup location. That is, if stores still have the game stocked.
Or I could click click click the interface, do other stuff while game downloads for an hour or two and then play the game.
I'm gonna need to see some receipts on that. It sounds a lot like one game sold 45% digital, and they're basing the story on it from their wording. No way it jumps from 15-25% to 45% in a year.
It hasn't been 15-25% for a long time
Well maybe 25% sure. But 15% being in the average hasn't been a case for a while now
Why do people say this as if this is the only reason people go digital?I don't think you appreciate the Herculean effort required to switch out games from your console a couple of times a day.
They say in the story it was estimated at 15-25% last year. The jump seems unrealistic to me and they've given nothing to support it except the vague mention that "some" games have sold 45% digitally.
It was a joke. I thought that would be obvious, apologies if not.Why do people say this as if this is the only reason people go digital?
This.. People saying it is a crazy price just because people are lazy..there is more to it.Oh, and also the fact that I have my account activated on two consoles (mine and my girlfriends), meaning I essentially get two copies of any game for the price of one.
My bad.It was a joke. I thought that would be obvious, apologies if not.
They say in the story it was estimated at 15-25% last year. The jump seems unrealistic to me and they've given nothing to support it except the vague mention that "some" games have sold 45% digitally.
It's pretty clear they are looking at the retail/digital splits of those recent specific games they mention in the article. So no.Are they counting things like Wolfenstein selling for £4 digital years after release?
A lot of evidence comes from the publishers themselves. Whilst not specific to the UK, a number of publishers have talked about the rise of digital full game downloads over the past year.
Electronic Arts said yesterday in their earnings call that the average for them is now around 36%. Up from from 30% in the same period last year.
Yeah. If anything I feel greater ownership and safety by buying a license to download the game whenever I want instead of buying a disc that has the data on it.If you break your disk you're are screwed as well, that's a factor people forget...Plus gameshare. There are numerous benefits. Disk Drives also break and wear down, and cause more wear on the system.
Yeah. If anything I feel greater ownership and safety by buying a license to download the game whenever I want instead of buying a disc that has the data on it.
Living in a (lovely) semi-rural area, we only had 3.5mbps until the beginning of this year and it was painful. Especially when you have a 4K OLED and no way to watch Netflix content in 4K on it. But luckily now we've got wireless line-of-sight broadband in our area which is surprisingly fantastic and we now get a reliable 60mbps download and 30mbps upload.I live in central London and somehow survive on 2mb at best download and below 0 upload. Trust me, you do not want to be here.
Yeah, but that 36% is a worldwide figure. The UK is generally expected to be lower as the pricing is so ridiculous. I find it strange that they've been so vague about where this 45% has come from. "Some" games? What if it's just Destiny 2, where you'd expect a high digital figure?
Wouldn't Microsoft also benefit from this also?I think if Sony and Microsoft both continue to use AMD systems on a chip for their future systems to maintain BC Sony is going to get a huge benefit from having a larger install base with a bunch of digital games tied to those accounts.
Not that surprising, but if you go to one of those sales threads and try to mention the possibility that digital sales for a game are probably more than 10% of total sales, people will laugh at you. Hopefully this data will change that misconception ;D
Living in a (lovely) semi-rural area, we only had 3.5mbps until the beginning of this year and it was painful. Especially when you have a 4K OLED and no way to watch Netflix content in 4K on it. But luckily now we've got wireless line-of-sight broadband in our area which is surprisingly fantastic and we now get a reliable 60mbps download and 30mbps upload.
However, the BT site says that we will be getting FTTP, which will be even more glorious, but there's no timeframe given.
I mean it's great if sales are healthy, we knew that retail being down wasn't the whole story, but weren't really sure by how much. Titles being actually up overall is a positive. However, baffles me why anyone would ever want to pay those prices when retail has far more benefits and significantly cheaper, plus potential return rates.
I've never paid more than £35 for AAA day 1 retail prices for as long as I can remember and I know I can sell them for the majority of that back if not actually make profit, upon completition. "Inconvenience" (or to me, taking a disc out once I'm finished, to put the next game in) isn't worth it one bit to me. But each to their own.
As long as retail offers those benefits and I can continually buy them at retail, digital to me is simply not in consideration.
wow, so much for the "Digital not big in Uk because of price" posts.
The bolded part suggests that you live in the Outer Hebrides, so I'm not sure how your Internet connection is that good?
We're doing it to spite GAME.I'm honestly shocked. Pricing here for digital is sooooo absurdly high compared to getting it online from somewhere like Amazon
Yep, which makes some of the posts in this head even sillier. Lots of reasons to go digital.You can shop around for digital points/wallet top-ups and get things cheaper than retail games.
I picked up £85 of PSN credit for £74 yesterday, that means I got the WW2 Digital Deluxe edition cheaper than retail.
People being lazy should never be shocking. Going online and searching for a place outside the UK that can sell the game cheaper is much more demanding.
Yup. All my circle of friends do it.
I do wonder what % of overall digital sales were at full price vs. a heavy sale price.wow, so much for the "Digital not big in Uk because of price" posts.
wow, so much for the "Digital not big in Uk because of price" posts.
With no timeframe on the numbers we dunno if they including old games in cheap PSN sales either.They say in the story it was estimated at 15-25% last year. The jump seems unrealistic to me and they've given nothing to support it except the vague mention that "some" games have sold 45% digitally.
I've made the switch to digital only on several platforms starting from 2011. Sometimes I've still bought physical, but since a few months I'm 100% digital. Even though some prices are still ridiculously high in the PS Store a lot of games now start at least with the same price as their physical counterparts. Since there are sales on PSN all the time you don't have to wait long to snag your favorite game for cheap. Horizon for instance was available for 39,99 only three months after its release.