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Subject: Re: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Well, so says a recent study about video-game sales in the UK.*
>
>Although honestly, my first reaction was, "It's that low?" Because I'm
>surprised so many games are still sold in stores. It almost certainly
>has to be much higher for PC (other than a tiny number of exclusive
>special edition packages, are there _any_ PC games still in retail?).
>Similarly, every single mobile game is a digital download too. Are
>there that many console users still stuck in the past?
>
>Especially since even if you do buy a console game, the first thing
>that is going to happen after you put the game in the machine is that
>it's going to download the entirity of the game again anyway thanks to
>0-day updates. What's the advantage to buying from retail?
>
>Sure, grandma might do it. "Little Timmy likes video games; I'll swing
>by Tesco and buy one for my beloved grandson." (and then inevitably
>buys some cheap, poorly-reviewed knock-off of a popular game. Oh,
>Grandma!). 

Or Grandma takes little Timmy to the store with her.
Saw that a few years back, as Granny bought 8 yr old Timmy GTA3:SA.

These days, more likely little Timmy has already trained her to buy
console store gift cards.

>Maybe it's just the UK. I wonder what world-wide stats show.

I've noticed a massive disappearance of movies and games from places I
used to buy from.

In fact, Best Buy has gone all in and sells no physical media at all
now.

Walmart still has a couple racks of new releases and discounted stuff
that didn't sell last years.  Games wise it was all console which I had
zero interest in, so not sure.

Xocyll