Sony: Majority of gamers "don't want to buy online right now"

Downloading a game is not as exciting as actually going out and buying the game!.. The cover is wrapped in plastic.. Rip that sh1t apart! open the cover.. And it has that new disc smell! Pop that sh1t out, insert it slowly... Brb.. Going to go fap

I always prefer Disc

I cant wait to download 250 Gigs for new GTA V game...but too bad that is only for Single Player...:(

I love digital for demos, indies, and hard-to-find titles (as well as re-issues of titles from old hardware), but I hate it for full retail versions of full games. I will always choose physical discs over digital for full games -- always. I don't need internet, don't need to worry about hard drive failure, and don't need to try and remember what games I own, they're sitting on my shelf.

THERE IS NO PRICE INCENTIVE TO BUY ONLINE! How dumb can SONY, XBOX , Nintendo be. Its so god damn obvious to me and has been for years. A $60 retail game should be something like $40 online and then people will buy it. I mean there's no packaging or shipping involved and we lose the value in selling it. But for 2/3 or less of the cost of physical..yeah I would and many would think about buying the game online.

i think he is right... some people have accepted it but i tell you if i pay $30 or more for a game its on disk or i dont buy it...

@AncientDozer your 100% right considering whats happened to books and cd's and movies... yeah you cant but them but all digital now your right 100% oh wait!!! People still buy books hardcover even thought there more expensive, music yes they still buy that too.

Listen if they can continue to make money selling physical THEY WILL!!!! Might become only a nitch market but if it is still a few million sales a year i think they will take it god damnit... Matter a fact i know they will

@AncientDozer

Gotta agree with pretty much everything you said. I still want my books in print though, I can't give that up.

And Steam did suck ass early on. It's better now, but still a pain on occasion.

It's weird as an outside observer (and possible defector), Sony fans seem to favor physical over digital when given the choice, xbox fans seem to favor digital over physical (me being the exception to the rule) but only after the drm switch. There is even a segment that are begging for the return of the original xbox one drm and willing to give away all of their rights to physical ownership in return for a few digital perks....there was even an article that claimed the xbox one is worse now than before the changes.

I feel like I'm in some bizarro universe.

1. 10 minutes driving to a store is so much better than a few hours downloading a game.

2. Physical copy can be traded back and its price drops faster than digital copy.

3. It just feels better having disks of games on your hand than some intangible digital games (collectors know this feeling)

http://www.gamespot.com/users/experience_fade/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-26031538

Have a read, it's worthwhile

I know this is probably not the right place for this but I thought I would post for anyone interested. found this on CAG

http://www.gamedealdaily.com/store/product.php?product=1978&clickid=WY8VnMzKwzGV0jaWfjwKFRcDUkWw%3AWWfNzrlWs0&clickid=3V6x3DzxkynUVFXTWCyG415JUkWw7b0xry4hRI0

Where is the cost of the cd taken off? I dont see any other content taking place of the cd, HD storage, and ability to sell. So online is ruined. For all those things the games should only cost $40-$50 at most.

Sony gets it right. Again.

I'm usually fond of digital-only in order to reduce carbon / water footprints of products' life cycles and reduce our need for resources (books are a great example) but, given the current technological limitations, there are tons of advantages for keeping physical games these days.

Just for starters: you get limited, expensive and often irreplaceable hard disks on certain consoles that will immediately hit their limits with bluray content; you get bandwidth limits that can make the whole download experience a nightmare; server-required games that will cease to exist once a company pulls the plug; no backwards compatibility that will ensure survival of your collections; at the moment, game sharing seems easier with physical copies in order to avoid "license" hazzles; you still got your product, regardless of a lost / banned / hacked account; and recently, our digital information is more than vulnerable to espionage and tracking than ever, and I don't want my customer habits to be used in any way.

So basically, you get a much lesser value for the same cost. Until we get the technological advances, matched by legal support for customers, and gaming companies oath of preserving our product's value (or commitment to reducing their price in a proportional level to reduced costs), physical seems just fine.

All digital future is disaster in the making. One hacker can erase everything you have or ever had on record (nothing is unhackable and it WILL happen one day). Worst of all is that you can't even sue the game company in such event. I'm sure its on the TOS somewhere. Physical copy for me!

Digital is crap 1 it just looks better to have the case 2 takes up more room on harddrive 3 you can find solid copy much cheaper in stores then u would in the PSN store.. I have seen so many games on the store that are selling for 20 bucks and i ended up getting it for 10 bucks at EB games

One of the reasons the majority don't want to buy online right now is because they are not dumb idiots. If you buy digital right now, it's the exact same price as physical, sometimes more expensive. Makes absolutely no sense. Make me say "I'm going to buy digital because I get a better deal from day 1 and significant discounts later" and then you will see more and more people getting digital. Until then don't pretend these people are stupid.

People want to put their hands on something. It's a psychological thing.