Sony introduces 'Day 1 Digital' campaign

I've ran out of room on my PS3 now, with all the free games psn + keeps giving me.

Almost full price with digital distribution 1st day won't cut it for me, ever. If I get games on Steam is always because the deals (wich certainly are more a fair thing since you never see the retail).

I'd easily pay a little more for a hard copy of a game over a download that you don't know if you'll be able to access 2, 3, 4 years down the line. And yet, I rarely have to. Retail is almost always cheaper than digital, even on PC, because the pricing is dictated by actual market forces as opposed to publishers deluding themselves about how much the game really is worth.

I've picked up the odd game off PSN in the past, but with the download speeds of some of them, it would be quicker to jump in the car and go and pick the damn thing up on disc.

And I really fail to see how not having to leave the house is a bad thing. I work at home, I play games at home, and have little opportunity to leave the house. Actually getting fresh air is A Good Thing(TM), but some people seem to be allergic to it.

no thanks, I would rather wait a month or two and get for $20

Buy all these games digitally and then lose them just like the digital comics lol

Within the next gen consoles I think we will see a much stronger push for digital sales. CD will cease to exist within 5 - 7 years and most music will be listened digitally. Same thing with games; we went from giant cartridges to CD-based discs and now there is the digital alternative.

Dare I say it, in TWO console generations we may see ALL games go the digital route. From Books to movies... all things are downloadable now....

feels like too big of a commitment. i'd rather buy the game retail version of a game on disc, play it, let my gf play it at her house if she likes, then stick it on my shelf waiting for coming soon stuff (expansions, bug fixes, dlc, etc.) or sell it to amazon or wait for gamestop's 50% trade in credit weekend. i bought tekken tag 2 and didn't like it, traded it back in for like $40 bucks, and bought DOA, and loved it. spent 80 instead of 120.

if they want to force Downloaded content, they should hand out free hard drive expansions.

Doom 3, a game released what, 10 years ago, needs paid Downloadable Content?

@Casey1967 Digital download games are a dumb way to go. they need far more hard drive space on consoles before they think about doing this. yes its okay for a few games but not for your whole library. Buying your game from a business is the best way to keep it and everyone should support this man.

There are way more benefits of having the disc version, you can re-sell the game if u dont like it or need the money, you can trade it and loan it to your friends and you can also borrow off your friends.

With Digital Downloads its locked on your console and once your console is full you need a new hard drive, no good for keeping your whole library of games on there. you cant sell the download or loan it to friends either.

Not big on digital downloads, but at least they're giving you a discount.

I prefer a retail copy. I like digital so that I don't have to get up and change discs, but my only question is when are they going to come out with a 6 disc changer for my PS3. That's what I want.

Buy a digital copy a that's the same or more expensive than a hard copy??? They save on producing the discs, packaging, in-shop marketing, shipping AND it destroys competition in the market place in one hit. Where are you going to shop around to find the best price? Unless they allow retailers to sell digital copies and compete on prices, like they do now, they can go and do one. As an example they have Borderlands 2 available to download for £49.95. You can get it for about £32-35 if you shop around.

now I have another reason to hate sony any body who supports this will eventually regret it when we are all forced to buy digital if we let sony and microsoft think its ok we will all be fucked I dont mind buying games digital if there cheap most I would pay is 20 if they sell AAA titles that cheap then they would have my vote. I dont see digital content worth 60 bucks no way not when I lose all rights to sell or trade it

ITS a good IDEA, but the fact of the matter is, unless you do not have a car, or other time constraints, it would take about as much time to go buy the game as it would to down load it.

The games would need to be a lot cheaper for me to think about buying games this way.

I really don't get why some people are going against this. It's actually pretty convenient, and no one is stopping you from buying a retail copy. This is great for people who live in countries where games are expensive and take long as hell to reach local stores. Sony is actually helping lots of people. Damn, some people just come to the comments section to complain about everything...

yay day 1

Amazing how people can be so incredibly ignorant about this, badwidth and servers are not free and a lot of you people still think that a 50% of the cost of the game comes from the case, the disc and the manual rofl...

As i've said before, more options for everyone is a good step, not everyone lives on the US or UK.

@buying1999 the mods here needs to ip banned this guy because all he does is troll and everyone knows that and no one takes him seriously hell most people probably just ignore him and is one of the many reasons why I still prefer the old chat systems because the mods actually did their job

Kinda a kool idea for those who don't mind digital stuff. I'm not really into this market cause I like many others like to resell games that I should have never purchased in the first place. Those game ya know the 1 play through an ur done. The god of wars games which were epicly awesome games, but very much lack true replay value. And what's all this hate on psn? Hello this about psn. If u don't like it move on.

Why leave the house when you can't have the physical form of the game......oh wait, why that sounded so wrong.....

Go figure.

nice seeing all the xbox fanboys showing up.. personally, i'd rather have the disk... and no, i dont re-sell my games.. i keep them.. forever... and only 2 of those titles mentioned are ones i have any interest in... Assassin's Creed 3 for sure, and possibly Need for Speed, tho i doubt it will be as good as the first Most Wanted on PS2..

Not a bad package....

Too bad the "Sony Entertainment Network" is garbage and PS3 hardware makes me change channels on my router to get download speeds that are barely good enough to download games within a day.

Id still rather have a physical copy I can resell.

Chill out people. Its an option. I understand the arguments of ownership and selling it on etc. However its just an option. Chill out

As someone who loves steam I have no problem with this as long as the retail versions are still made. Digital only is not for everyone and digital games should be $20 or so less than retail.

I am glad they are getting this out of the way! I am more than likely moving back to Sony from Microsoft next gen ... hopefully, Sony will realize how flawed this idea is (right now) given the current state of ISPs, and that many people (myself included) prefer physical discs, and then when they launch their next system, it will still have both digital capabilities as well as physical.

Sounds cool. Personally, I like to buy my games day 30, when they go for about half the price.