I don’t see why not, they could before couldn’t they? Even if you want to stick to the cost argument, i don’t have to care about that, cause i need to look out for myself as a consumer. If they can’t provide a way for me to own the game, i’ll simply take my business elsewhere. There’s a reason i opted to buy a disc edition ps5 instead of a digital edition, because i didn’t want to be locked to their storefront. That hasn’t changed one generation later, so if that’s the only option i’m just not going to buy it. Also, you claim physical is dead, but the situation is more nuanced when you look at the sales on a per game basis. There are definitely a lot of games that sell more digitally, but there are also first party titles like rift apart that have a 75%/25% physical/digital ratio. I think they’re definitely taking a risk alienating those first party customers by going digital only, but we’ll see what happens i guess.
You absolutely don’t have to care about the profitability of the companies who make the products you enjoy……unless of course you want them to keep making more of those products.
As for games like rift apart, that game had a physical copy bundled with consoles for a long time. Anything bundled isn’t worth counting.
Also where did you get your physical:digital split for that?
By Sony’s own figures, over 85% of all first party titles sold are digital.
So if the sequel to your favourite game of all time was too big to fit on one disc, had been in development for 10 years, and had spent all of the developer/publishers money getting it out, and they opted to make it require a download as well as the disc, and the game was going to be your favourite game of all time, never to be beaten……you’d prefer they go out of business and never make another game?
I mean, they don’t HAVE to go out of business, i’m just saying i wouldn’t buy the game if i knew upfront that the game wasn’t on the disc. It’s not that i never buy digital games, but i usually never buy them full price, if i do it’s usually on pc, and even then it’s rare.
I’m not sure what else you want me to say, i’ve said my piece. I can’t feel bad about every company that goes under because i didn’t buy something from them, otherwise i would be living under a bridge. I don’t want to be at the mercy of the one single storefront that exists on playstation going forward, so i won’t be buying those consoles anymore.
I don’t see why not, they could before couldn’t they? Even if you want to stick to the cost argument, i don’t have to care about that, cause i need to look out for myself as a consumer. If they can’t provide a way for me to own the game, i’ll simply take my business elsewhere. There’s a reason i opted to buy a disc edition ps5 instead of a digital edition, because i didn’t want to be locked to their storefront. That hasn’t changed one generation later, so if that’s the only option i’m just not going to buy it. Also, you claim physical is dead, but the situation is more nuanced when you look at the sales on a per game basis. There are definitely a lot of games that sell more digitally, but there are also first party titles like rift apart that have a 75%/25% physical/digital ratio. I think they’re definitely taking a risk alienating those first party customers by going digital only, but we’ll see what happens i guess.
You absolutely don’t have to care about the profitability of the companies who make the products you enjoy……unless of course you want them to keep making more of those products.
As for games like rift apart, that game had a physical copy bundled with consoles for a long time. Anything bundled isn’t worth counting.
Also where did you get your physical:digital split for that?
By Sony’s own figures, over 85% of all first party titles sold are digital.
If they screw me over then no i don’t want them to make more products, i can live without.
So if the sequel to your favourite game of all time was too big to fit on one disc, had been in development for 10 years, and had spent all of the developer/publishers money getting it out, and they opted to make it require a download as well as the disc, and the game was going to be your favourite game of all time, never to be beaten……you’d prefer they go out of business and never make another game?
That’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I mean, they don’t HAVE to go out of business, i’m just saying i wouldn’t buy the game if i knew upfront that the game wasn’t on the disc. It’s not that i never buy digital games, but i usually never buy them full price, if i do it’s usually on pc, and even then it’s rare.
An extra 5% in costs is often the difference between a company existing or not.
I’m not sure what else you want me to say, i’ve said my piece. I can’t feel bad about every company that goes under because i didn’t buy something from them, otherwise i would be living under a bridge. I don’t want to be at the mercy of the one single storefront that exists on playstation going forward, so i won’t be buying those consoles anymore.