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Will you go all-digital with the next consoles?

Nope. I can understand mobile/portable all digital, but I like physical media. Not tied to one account/system...you can let someone borrow it, take it to a friend home, sell it, etc.
 
I would go digital for most of my games if they drop the prices, have a once in a while sales system like Steam and if they have a high enough bandwidth. Some games I'd still like to buy a limited edition of for my collection.
 
I've just picked up a 1TB external for my Wii U, so yes, very likely. Apart from Nintendoland and Zombie U which I got at launch. I pay my ISP €6 extra a month for an unlimited* bandwidth allowance.

*There's always an asterisk, isn't there? Fair use and all that.
 
Manmademan said:
That aside- as slow as PSN is, downloading 40 gigs or whatever for uncharted 4 is just impractical, no matter what your bandwidth cap is. In the time it takes to download it, you could easily run to the store, finish the game and sell it back for credit.
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Plenty of people get perfectly good download rates from the PSN, its not universally slow. Hell one day I max out my speed and another day it crawls. It's not right and it needs to be sorted.

As for downloading 40GB, on my connection in the UK it would take a little over two hours. It's really not that bad for some people and it's getting better every day. If I did it on my dads connection it would take 45 minutes. Neither of us have caps, just FUP.

The kind of people that are going to want to buy games digitally are also more likely to be people that have faster connections with no limits. I wonder if speeds and caps are more an issue in the US than they are in Europe and elsewhere?
 
I hate physical discs and boxes etc so YES

In Sweden bandwidth is not an issue, myself I have 100mbit fibre.

.. If they have an account system like ms and Sony. Will not buy digital on WiiU until the purchases are actually tied to an account and not my specific console

I hate the space physical media takes and it is really a bother to change disc to change game. The only downside is selling games is not possible, I will be even more careful with what I buy instead
 
1stStrike said:
Yeah. If internet in the US wasn't so crappy we'd be seeing a lot more people adopting this model. I think. Look at a country like South Korea, where 100 MBps is the norm. They have fiber running everywhere in that country and you can get a 100 MBps connection on the cheap. If we all had fiber to the home and were wired the same way, and you could download these larger games in a matter or minutes, people would probably be looking at this differently.

Plus, there's a TON of good deals on Steam. Sure, they usually start out full price and aren't as prone to discounts in the beginning, but there's always price drops and Steam sales. On the flip side, you can also get the same games on Amazon which can be activated on Steam and generally cost less. I got like $40 in games the other day off Amazon for $10 which I then proceeded to activate on Steam.
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Well I'll just say I'm in Australia and on DSL.

Now admittedly most of my game buying is on Steam (with the rest being psn/xbla/ios) and the kinds of games I buy are not giant 30 GB+ affairs. Though some are in the 15-20 range.
 
Quasar said:
Well I'll just say I'm in Australia and on DSL.

Now admittedly most of my game buying is on Steam (with the rest being psn/xbla/ios) and the kinds of games I buy are not giant 30 GB+ affairs. Though some are in the 15-20 range.
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Yeah, you guys are severely boned by your ISP's over there. In the US, our ISP's are firmly (for the most part) embracing the capped internet model of like 100 - 150 GB a month. That's fine for some people who don't download much, but in a world that is going increasingly digital, that is not much bandwidth in the long run.

Luckily, I am on an ISP that doesn't enforce caps (yet), but I'm also in an area that doesn't even have docsys 3.0 and probably won't for god knows how long, so 20 MBps / 2 MBps is my maximum speeds. I've been very tempted to move somewhere that has FIOS or, hell, I'm half tempted to move to Kansas City for Google Fiber.
 
Bandwidth caps will probably the next big thing with predatory loans were in the Great Recession. That's not how the future is moving and for those companies to stomp on that progress which will in the end make them money is nefarious.
 
Nope, for one I don't really have the download speed for it to be convenient (just moved from a place with optic fibre to one with plain ol' adsl :() and more importantly, I'd like to actually own what I purchase, and be free to do with it what I choose! I'd like to be able to lend a game to a friend, or sell a game I'm ultimately not happy with, for instance.
 
Manmademan said:
That aside- as slow as PSN is, downloading 40 gigs or whatever for uncharted 4 is just impractical, no matter what your bandwidth cap is. In the time it takes to download it, you could easily run to the store, finish the game and sell it back for credit.
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I just downloaded Ni No Kuni (~22 GB) from PSN in 3 hours. Sure, it could be faster, but it's reasonable I'd say.

Anyway, as long as my games are account-bound and transfer to any hardware that could reasonably run them I'll go digital.
 
Not unless it works as well as Steam, so no.
 
No.

Whenever I have the choice, I go with physical.

This all digital business doesnt please me. I don't trust cloud either.

yeah, I guess I'm old and grumpy.
 
I'm really, really surprised none of the three have adapted steams sale system. It's proven to make a crapload more money than the traditional model of pricing. I'd imagine whoever dives into that first will reap more system sales too due to the titles being significantly cheaper for the patient, plus weekend and holiday sales. I'd probably buy at LEAST 50% more console games if they had a store similar to steam in pricing.
 
No, only when there's a sale and the price is good. Third party games are/can still be very expensive, like €69.99 expensive (e.g. Need for Speed MW on Euro PSN).
 
1stStrike said:
Yeah, you guys are severely boned by your ISP's over there. In the US, our ISP's are firmly (for the most part) embracing the capped internet model of like 100 - 150 GB a month. That's fine for some people who don't download much, but in a world that is going increasingly digital, that is not much bandwidth in the long run.
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Well that depends on your ISP/Plan. There are a range of options available. Including things like terabyte plans as well as unlimited ones. I can't say I feel restricted by datacaps, at least with wired. Wireless its a different story, and one reason I still don't own a smart phone.
 
Not unless they give me a 2TB hard drive and prices as good as Steam's as well as the ability to still buy (codes) from retailers like Amazon.
Sorry, i like my competition.
 
If they create somekind or pre-order discounts for digital releases (its the only way I see them lowering prices because of retailer pressure)

Im in
 
Ive been digital only for movies and music for years, I have a small place and hate the clutter of boxes, plus I like everything playable from the remote.

The thing that stops me with console gaming is the price. If I could pick up the odd bargain I'd be happy.

I'm more likely to go down a PS+ or similar subscription with a couple of key games a year bought however I can get then cheapest be that retail or digital.
 
I prefer to have a physical copy, so I can sell it at a later date. However, if Sony and Microsoft clamp down on used games, I could move towards more digital downloads.
 
Probably not. On some few select games, maybe. But PSN/Xbox Live/Nintendo never have B2G1 free sales or similar. Until digital can consistently undersale retail, I don't see myself ever going full digital.

If they can manage to adopt steam pricing, dirt cheap sales for games I would probably never play... yeah, I kind of want that to happen, but I really don't. I don't think I have even played 10% of the Steam games I bought... ugh.
 
Hell to the no. I actually like owning my stuff and I don't have the bandwidth to download many GB of data all the time.
 
I don't think I could ever trust digital delivery too much with closed platforms and exclusive walled garden stores.

For PC, Android or any other kind of open platform, on the other hand, DD is the way to go for me.
 
Given a choice I will always stay with physical copies. Unfortunately, there will be a time in the not-so distant future where this choice will be taken away completely.
 
eXistor said:
Given a choice I will always stay with physical copies. Unfortunately, there will be a time in the not-so distant future where this choice will be taken away completely.
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Im sure of it. It will probably go the way of how PC retail is now. The CD's are more or less useless, the one time I bought a PC retail release I ended up just getting the steam code and throwing the rest away.
 
Whatever is cheaper? If the retail disc is gonna be down in price after a month or two but the digital download is still the RRP I won't pay extra just to have the convenience of a download. I'm okay with either on consoles since you can have your entire collection neatly organized somewhere nearby.

On the current (and I suppose future) handhelds I'd much rather get a digital release over a physical just because of portable convenience and whatnot, so unless the price difference is particularly big I'll opt for digital. The 3DS XL is already a big device so having a pocket or bag full of cartridges that need sorting isn't optimal.
 
I am tempted to go all digital, one thing I do plan is not buying so many full priced games next gen, I have a few on my 360 and pc I still need to play!

Long as microsoft keep their ways of managing online content (signed to user account and console) then I am happy with it. I would not buy anything digital for a wii U at all.
 
Noway, if there a box copy I buy the box copy
even PS+ freebies is like a test drive, if I like it that much I buy the physical copy, I'd love a physical PS3 Crysis & RE4 HD
 
Never. I like retaining my rights as a consumer to re-sell my own purchased product.

Whichever companies move to restrict this right in the next generation will not be getting my money.
 
No.

I still buy physical copies of my PC games. I prefer physical over digital and add the fact i only get like 300gb a month bandwidth. If i ever get unlimited bandwidth and insanely fast speeds i would consider going all digital for PC but would still go for physical on consoles because i still don't trust sony/microsoft with that kind of stuff, not like i do with steam.
 
Short answer: yes

Did it with software for my PC, also works great with apps on my phone, buying physical discs seems soooo outdated.

Plus, all my games under one button AND a really clean house!
 
Only if they do preloads. Some of these games are going to be huge. Give me a week to preload the games and i would def buy it online.
 
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