Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:37:39 +0000
From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:37:38 -0400
Message-ID: <g6crejhe6nubrln5c6e17m9slq2ph62si1@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 32
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-OGB+42DZdJ7GmGGJCpeNbcryKlCpBHjJe+4elaagy9oWc3UQacil3E/4r5GJh2Y40YN0iMJPgIP1A2t!weZVVkxJXHuQWYkd/JjwXtiVB1RwKEeBFyHDR0UFrPIvWKr+uOGJCj5zwM1txHxMjdacrdhW
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
Bytes: 2187

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!). 

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








 ----           
* article here:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/75-of-games-sold-in-august-were-downloaded-uk-monthly-charts