Still not there....

[Zeus]

Digital "preference" over physical is still relatively low, only 25%. Although the 'indecisive' is the majority, which is interesting

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/one-th ... 0-6417879/

What seems to be the case is that gamers, particularly PC ones, seem to find value in the fact that digital downloads are cheaper than physical discs. I'm wondering how worried the publishers are about that. You can see the digital prices on the consoles ain't good and nothing close to the PCs.

[Shrinweck]

I don't even care about console gamers in these statistics. If PC games could still be played off DVDs/blurays while not installed and the PCs in this scenario only included smallish hard drives that were overpriced, then I'd only purchase physical copies too. You force Sony and Microsoft to start bundling 2tb hard drives with the cheapest models and maybe things would swing slightly more towards digital copies. Come on, 500gb? Surely they must be joking. It's fucking 2014. I haven't bought a 500gb hard drive in 8+ years.

[Eric]

The "problem" is that the console digital market place is controlled by Sony & Microsoft(and err Nintendo...if you call that a marketplace), and they have 0 incentive to really trim prices on digital offerings really. I think Microsoft said it was going to experiment with lower digital prices and they put Ryse on sale for $10 cheaper for a week.

EA pulled it's entire catalog post Mass Effect 3 I think from Steam so they specifically could sell all their PC games @ a $60 price point through Origin and lesser known distribution chains that don't have awesome sales(Or do, but are not steam so less people buy from them).

Steam is goddamn perfect for the most part, even ancient PC games from the 90s work, constant sales, it's consumer first-mentality is the reason it owns like 60-70% of the PC market,

Sony/Microsoft really don't have competition in their markets, except with each other, and that war basically begins/ends at who buys which console and which console has the better version of said game, after that they HAVE to buy the game, soooooo who cares how much you price it at really?

I actually don't think digital distribution is something the industry is trying to move forward towards. If they really wanted to push digital, , you'd have every release $5-10 cheaper then retail(Since you're not paying fucking retail anymore, or for a box, disc, etc). The one that would be declaring war on retail would be if they released digital games earlier, but that one will most likely never happen, because retail still provides good marketing/promotion of games for people who buy physical, and retail would most likely revolt.

I don't even care about console gamers in these statistics. If PC games could still be played off DVDs/blurays while not installed and the PCs in this scenario only included smallish hard drives that were overpriced, then I'd only purchase physical copies too. You force Sony and Microsoft to start bundling 2tb hard drives with the cheapest models and maybe things would swing slightly more towards digital copies. Come on, 500gb? Surely they must be joking. It's fucking 2014. I haven't bought a 500gb hard drive in 8+ years.

You're a minority. Most people don't need terabytes of space unless they're pirating buttloads of crap, you can manage HD space pretty easily by uninstalling/deleting stuff you don't use, especially if you use steam, who in god's name keeps their entire steam library installed?

[Shrinweck]

EA pulled their games from Steam because EA wanted to basically cut Valve out of DLC sales. Valve's policy is to sell DLC on the same page as the game which simplifies things a lot. EA wanted to sell DLC directly from their website/own services so they pulled their games. Wild guess that EA didn't appreciate sharing 30% of their profits with a competitor, as well.

[Don]

Even if you're pirating a bunch of stuff it'd not a bad idea to clean up your stuff every once in a while!

[Julius Seeker]

It is definitely not like console manufacturers have to include massive hard drives in their consoles. I bought a 2TB drive for my Wii U for half the price of a 32GB Vita memory card.

The only physical copies of new games I've owned in the last 2 years are games I got as gifts. It's just far more convenient to purchase them digitally.