Re: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded

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.*
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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?
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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?
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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