They make more money and score brownie points for “saving the earth”, so there’s nothing to listen to.
Water is wet moment. Mat Piscatella: "Alan Wake II would have likely benefitted from having a physical release imo"
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Imagine how many sales channels you miss out on. It’s not just about the disc, it’s about being on a shelf at the store you visit, it’s about being on Amazon, etc. etc. Market penetration.
I’m adamant Xbox lack of success is their diminished retail presence. It looks small and insignificant next to the PS offering. It has a brand effect.
Physical games still have a pretty large market. It’s not insignificant.
The point is it would have sold more if there was a physical option.
The vast majority of games are sold digitally mostly because of smaller independent games. The bigger games all get physical releases. Those digital only independent games are included into the percentage different with physical. The thing is there aren’t any physical only games in comparison.
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It's somewhere here in the forum, can't be arsed to go and find it.
I do find it weird that people keep clapping for the loss of physical though.
You’re taking about the sales info that showed new games selling 50% physical.
I believe I quoted it. I’ll find it.
Thank you, this is it.
I sincerely don't get where the "most people buy digital anyway" when talking about consoles. Yes, Sony reports like a 30/70 split for example, but there's a fuckload of games, especially indies, that are digital only. Games that are available physically usually sell really well in that medium.
Seems like so many people want a future of console gaming without physical, as if others owning a piece of plastic that allows them to resell or collect, if they want to, somehow impacts on their life.
It impacts the bottom-line of the daddy figure companies they're hopelessly fanatical about. It's all massively idiotic from low IQ morons.
I think you mistook the other thread.
That was revenue and included digital games only (these have bigger revenue due no retail cut and less aggressive promotions).
At average for titles with both the difference is around 40% physical + 60% digital… some even are 50/50.
But that weird thread failed to understand that.
Releasing big AAA games without physical is shooting for less sales.
Larian is trying to fix that mistake too.
Larian is trying to fix that mistake too.
You mean Epic? Ubifake soft does not publish this game, it wouldn't be any good if they did.
