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Prine

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah, certainly seems like Switch is pushing this. Id happily go Digital, dont mind spending an extra £10 but i dont trust Nintendos digital licencing and thier account system so i buy physical based off that.

This was interesting:
Early signs are promising, with 850,000 consumers looking to pick up either the Nintendo Switch or Xbox One X in the run up to the festive season.
 

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah, certainly seems like Switch is pushing this. Id happily go Digital, dont mind spending an extra £10 but i dont trust Nintendos digital licencing and thier account system so i buy physical based off that.

This was interesting:
To be fair, their digital system is device independent now
 

Dorfdad

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Oct 27, 2017
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With the rise in game sizes and the caps coming to ISP's I imagine this might be a trend. Will the Xbox one x versions of physical releases contain the 4K assets as well?

Most of this is switch related I assume as well.
 

Coxy

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Oct 28, 2017
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Still surprised to see this - the amount of threads we see where UK sales have gone for the sequel etc etc.
 

LAA

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Oct 28, 2017
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Yeah, certainly seems like Switch is pushing this. Id happily go Digital, dont mind spending an extra £10 but i dont trust Nintendos digital licencing and thier account system so i buy physical based off that.

This was interesting:

Don't understand why you'd want to pay more when you're technically getting less, less ownership over it and with physical possibility of getting early, (though also late), but I definitely understand not wanting to pay Nintendo anything for digital stuff due to their weird handling of online accounts and etc. still.

That said, I would like to go for digital more often, a big reason to gameshare with my bro and we were going to look at doing it for South park or AC...
... £55 for each of them standard. We both said forget that, just got south park on PC for £40ish with the season pass.
AC origins got physically on PS4 for £55 again with the season pass.

Atm I just see digital prices as being...cheeky tbh. Charging more but offering less than competitors would, so until that's changed, for me it's not so likely I'll want to be investing more in digital anytime soon.

Also Switch I will want most games physically simply because of the limited storage really. Small games though like binding of Isaac and etc. I'm fine with digital.
 

shimon

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Oct 25, 2017
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Considering what we've been seeing with all those UK threads this must be Switch effect right?
 

impingu1984

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Oct 31, 2017
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As a PC Gamer in the UK all I can say is physical has dead to me for a very long time, and sales figures quoted that exclude digital are probably largely irrelevant.

With the rise in game sizes and the caps coming to ISP's I imagine this might be a trend

In the UK at least only the very cheapest fixed line internet connections generally have a download cap, most now are unlimited (within reasonable usage ie not 2TB every month but if you did 2TB in just month and 100GB every other no one will care)
 

Dorfdad

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Oct 27, 2017
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As a PC Gamer in the UK all I can say is physical has dead to me for a very long time, and sales figures quoted that exclude digital are probably largely irrelevant.



In the UK at least only the very cheapest fixed line internet connections generally have a download cap, most now are unlimited (within reasonable usage ie not 2TB every month but if you did 2TB in just month and 100GB every other no one will care)

Well the newer games for Xbox one X seem to be about 100gigs for installs and I can assume in the future these will rise due to textures so I'm not sure those with caps would go digital.
 

RoboPlato

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Oct 25, 2017
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Huh, that's surprising considering how far down everything seemed to be in the UK this year. I guess the broader gaming market must be expanding beyond the established franchises.
 

Principate

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Oct 31, 2017
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As a PC Gamer in the UK all I can say is physical has dead to me for a very long time, and sales figures quoted that exclude digital are probably largely irrelevant.



In the UK at least only the very cheapest fixed line internet connections generally have a download cap, most now are unlimited (within reasonable usage ie not 2TB every month but if you did 2TB in just month and 100GB every other no one will care)
It's not even now, that has pretty much always been the case. Even mobile was generally unlimited or generally large until they cracked the fuck down on that shit to my dismay.
 

Principate

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Oct 31, 2017
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Huh, that's surprising considering how far down everything seemed to be in the UK this year. I guess the broader gaming market must be expanding beyond the established franchises.
I honestly think at lot if not most of that is down to the switch as well as the Sony exclusives that came out. Oddessey sold near Assassin's creed, Zelda also sold substantially nost of the switches titles likely had reasonable legs. Then add in Horizon, Uncharted extra and you can see how itwould have beat from the slower previous years. Console launches normally leave a pretty reasonable wake and the PS4 is strong right now.
 

impingu1984

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Oct 31, 2017
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UK
Well the newer games for Xbox one X seem to be about 100gigs for installs and I can assume in the future these will rise due to textures so I'm not sure those with caps would go digital.

For my house there approx. 72 options for Internet connection (Via broadbandchoices.co.uk) only 1 has a monthly usage limit... And I live in the arse end of nowhere. The point I'm making is in the UK usage caps are not a barrier as they aren't a thing.

I also know any US guys will think 72 options is a typo... it isn't 72 contracts via 10 providers only 1 contract has a usage limit.