Sony introduces 'Day 1 Digital' campaign

@MJ12-Conspiracy You you don't have to keep them on your Hardrive. You own the game and can alwys download it agian when ever you want. What do you think iOS owners and steam owners have been doing for 5 years. I even have an app on the iTunes that is banned. Vlc player but because I bought it I still own and can download it to my devices.

@alenth I am one of them. Problem is not just high taxes, but games take too long to ship. Case in point: I had pre-ordered Borderlands 2. But it was delayed by at least a week. I was getting it for about $60 [store vouchers of sort] but why not take the same game for $60 on release day than wait for another week or more?

I'll definitely be using this to buy games I want to play day one. Though for now Pandora has me and don't see playing anything else for rest of year.

@UnwantedSpam And then cleaning it with that cleaner and rubbing it all over the disc . . . and yourself. And wait, what's that? There's a hole . .

@UnwantedSpam I was an old archaic bastard like you, until I took increased import taxes to the knee. I been working in Asia for past 6-7 years or so. Most countries here don't get games on time and get it at high prices. I can import but they work out expensive and rarely no day one. So, this is something that would work for games I want to buy day one. Rest, I'll still pick up from GameStop for cheap. People forget that GameStop is not present in every country and their are more countries in world than US.

@UnwantedSpam And something about ripping open the packaging and thumbing through the manual before you play just gets me. I love digital due to it being faster but I sure do love that feeling of a new game.

@UnwantedSpam Now that was funny lol

@UnwantedSpam That new game smell and feel always makes my day :D''''''

D@mn right Gamer ;) @UnwantedSpam

@xolivierx What's not so good is when your blu-ray drive dies. That's happened to me twice since 2006. Pros and cons for both.

@xolivierx You can always download it back.

@svaubel I went to Bestbuy this weekend bought F1 2012 and Gran Turismo...there were ALOT of games for 19.99 and 29.99, even 39.99$...you just wait a while, you get a discount, and you can always sell / exchange a disc copy. 4$ savings for a 25gigs download...yeaaah right why don't you use all of my HDD space then I can spend another 100$ for 1000gig HDD...do the math kids.

@svaubel that makes too much sense. We can't have that!!

@DaNubianPryns it's actually good to come out of the house sometimes. This is why the human race is going to end up like in the movie Wall-E.

@jyml8582 Eerrrmm... they do that already. My friend pre-ordered Borderlands 2 off PSN and it was pre-loaded and was sitting in his HDD for 2 days before he could unlock it on launch day and play it.

@immortality20 very true. I like ''owning my games''. A saved copy on a HDD don't mean shyt if the HDD fails(and they eventually all do). I know you can re-dload the game, but then again what happens if you are fooked once again? Bye bye money and digital copy, please buy again!

@Thomasdeleo

Gamestop on the moon LOL...I wonder how intelligent their salespeople are...

@Zero5000X then you are not a true gamer. Try telling that to someone who collects vinyls(records). Don't tell them about the digital mp3, they like owning, it's a collection, and they like browsing through their stuff. Digital will NEVER be better than physical, because a digital copy means you have NO ownership over the product/content/material and it means the company can do what they want with the so called ''sold'' copies. Not to mention it cuts jobs(people working in the factories, transport, labeling, boxing, RETAIL...) I won't go digital

@Zero5000X Don't forget, you don't have to drive to the store and deal with the idiots in line. Plus the chance that they don't even have a copy. Plus the inevitable sales tax. Plus the risk of a disc breaking...you get the idea.

Gamers need to know there's a lot of benefits to going digital. I've been exposed to a far wider variety of games through XBL, PSN, and Steam at cheaper prices, as opposed to driving to Gamestop and seeing the overpriced flavor of the month they try to promote.

@Zero5000X Delete when you're done? What if you get the itch to play it, it'll be sooo much quicker to just download it again instead of putting a disk in? Every reason you put is so laughable.

@Zero5000X 60 bucks for something for ONE console with no chance of lending it ,trading it, selling it. And maybe even playing it after they don't support its servers anymore? I think I will pass.

@Zero5000X i used to disagree , but now im kinda there with yeah, my beef is i can usually find games i wanted to play but missed cheaper for like 10 $ when they want 40-25 $ online

@nurnberg the way graphics are going i see major titles hitting 80 sooner or later

@nurnberg If people refuse to buy something for a certain price, it will drop, has nothing to do with physical copys.