Originally Posted by
Anthony1
I'm not sure why we are all worrying about this thing anyway, cause there is no way this shit will happen. Eventually games will be download only, and that is how they will get things on there side, but they know they have to gradually introduce that. You have to slowly but surely introduce that, otherwise, EB, GameStop, GameCrazy and all the others will do everything in their power to back your primary competitor.
I fully expect that late in the Xbox 360's lifetime, you will be able to download full versions of 360 games, for a reduced price, but it won't be 100 percent of all available games. For example, if 15 games are released in a given month, maybe 7 or 8 of them will be available for download for like a $35 fee, or you can buy the actual retail disc for $49.99. Some consumers could care less about the physical thing, and will prefer to save a little money, but others will prefer the physical thing. It's going to be a slow death for GameStop and EB and GameCrazy. In fact, things will just barely get started in that direction towards the end of the PS3, 360 and Wii generation. And then in the following generation of systems, it will move much more in that direction, but I'm guessing that EB and GameStop and GameCrazy will still survive, but when we are talking about the generation following that, in about 16 years, there will be NO PHYSICAL MEDIA. It's at this point that the First Party and Publishers will get their way in terms of used game sales and all that.