Re: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded

On 9/20/2024 10:37 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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.

My son and I were in Target the other day, he wanted to buy a switch game.  All they had were little cards to buy which gives you a code for downloading them.  I wonder if they're counting that as buying a game in the store or whatever.
I just can't see 75% unless they're limiting it to PS5 or Xbox (I'm only assuming they have real discs still?) or PC.
If they include mobile it's going to be way higher than 75% since games can only be purchased.  They probably aren't even counting them because most of them aren't purchased, they're FTP.
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