By the time digital game downloads become convenient it will be time just to stream games. I dont see how an improved internet backbone that allows one wouldnt allow the other...
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Are Digital Downloads of games the future? Not at these prices!
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Not really a well thought out feature then. It would be nice if it auto ejected the game if it realised its not the right disc for the command you requested...
LOL thats just too funny, I can understand if you were registered disabled or something. Considering how much of my PS3 collection is via PSN, Im well aware of the marginal benefit - its not all that at all - talk about purchase justification
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Purchase justification? Not really.
Digital download will not be cheaper on consoles for a while yet because the developers don't want to put shops out of business. If digital downloads were cheaper than physical copies then what would happen to Game or Indi game retailers??
Also it does cost money to hold these games on secured servers.
Also it does cost money to hold these games on secured servers.
Lets just say I thought I was replying to a Craterloads post and replied accordingly
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Sony themselves have already said that they don't set the prices for any third party content on the store, and that the first party games are priced in such a way that they won't put bricks and mortar stores out of business.
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As soon as physical media dies we're all going to get bent over and we'll either have to lube up and take it or stop gaming.
Makes the people who were so vocal in their support of digital media only on the Xbox look like fools tbh.
Makes the people who were so vocal in their support of digital media only on the Xbox look like fools tbh.
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Simple solution to that is to introduce competition on the platforms.
On the PC market you have Steam, Gamersgate, Gamefly ect.
Allow people like those to distribute games through PSN, XBL and Nintendo Online and prices would come down as competition is in place.
Amazon now distributes online codes for PSN which is a step forward but it needs to go further.
And that would mean the end of consoles for me. I'd be getting back to Steam and PC gaming in the blink of an eye. Unless Valve stop having sales and put their prices up.
And that would mean the end of consoles for me. I'd be getting back to Steam and PC gaming in the blink of an eye. Unless Valve stop having sales and put their prices up.
Lol. You think PC gaming will be immune?
I do have to laugh at your suggestion that a fully digital console world would drive you into the hands of Steam, the largest digital distribution platform in the world!
Have you seen the prices for most non Valve games on Steam!
Lol. You think PC gaming will be immune?
I do have to laugh at your suggestion that a fully digital console world would drive you into the hands of Steam, the largest digital distribution platform in the world!
Have you seen the prices for most non Valve games on Steam!
For all intents, PC is now a digital platform. The prices might be high in some cases but you can bet your bottom dollar unless you want something by Activision the prices will tumble rather rapidly. Plus you have the option of buying a physical copy for cheaper and typing your code into Steam. Neither Sony nor Microsoft allow this (at present) and they don't have regular sales either.
If theres more companies that do what Amazon have done and create a console game digital marketplace then theres a small chance that those might attempt to compete with each other after physical dies.And that would mean the end of consoles for me. I'd be getting back to Steam and PC gaming in the blink of an eye. Unless Valve stop having sales and put their prices up.
I cant see how that wont happen now it might appear that we have an alternative place to purchase games digitally other than through the platform holders portals (and potentially via publishers). Just need more of them!
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Some games aren't released on physical media though.
Is it wrong that I forgot Nintendo actually have a "next gen" console, I'd have included them in my post otherwise...
It's interesting that you put next gen in quotation marks.
Can you define what next gen actually means? It seems most people have no idea what it means.
Sony does currently allow this for the PS4 at least.
The games that are only released through PSN tend to have sensible pricing though.
It's because it IS better, you have the option of buying steam games from other places, like GMG just to name one, at good prices.
Any game I've bought on or before release for my Steam account has been significantly cheaper than Steam's store price, as I have went through somewhere like Green Man Gaming.
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It is better, this is just not something that can be argued.
I would think 'next gen' is marketing spin which it is to describe the next consoles from MS and Sony. 'next gen' will change to this 'this gen' when ppl get a sniff of the 'next gen'.