Yes, education would be required, but clearly this would be for USA anyway, unless they create stores elsewhere that allow disk trade in.
Keep in mind ALL prices are MSRP, meaning retail will be cheaper
Why even bother with disc trade ins. Do what PC's did ages ago. Cd keys that activate a digital copy.
Shouldn't be hard.
Right now retailers are kinda at a crossroad when it comes to games. While info is hard to get, a lot of games these days is bought digitally. Stores like Best Buy aren't selling the same amount of games they used to. Many retailers have shrunken the floor space dedicated to games, but games in general take up a large chunk of your store regardless. It's almost at the point where retailers are beginning to question if the amount of floor space vs the reduced games sales is worth it.
Retailers are now trying to find a way to sell digital games at brick and motar stores. It's a tough nut to crack, but they've been exploring options.
The most promising is an interactive screen that allows you to browse games. While I don't remember all the specifics, you can basically buy a game, check out, and they give you a code via email right then and there. The game will begin downloading as you're walking out the store, so hopefully it's playable by the time you get home. Of course game size, and Internet speed varies.
The other idea was previously mentioned by another poster. You could have a retailer like Best Buy download whatever you want onto your Xbox "Maverick" when you buy it. They will then have whatever you want downloaded when you go to pick it up. You could literally just call Best Buy, and say "Yeah, I'll take one XB1 with Gamepass, EA Access, Elite Dangerous, and Rainbow Six Siege please." " Oh yeah, almost forgot. Gimme all the DLC from Rainbow Six Season 3 and 5 as well." Everything would be ready to go as soon as you got home with your console.
I imagine retailers such as Gamestop are going to go out of business within 10 years though, as they are going to have a hard time reselling used digital games.
This already happened a decade ago here and this is how it will go down over there.
1) Discs will have cd keys that activate a copy. Which makes reselling the disc completely useless as it's now a waste of space as the key is now bound to your game account.
2) The Disc will only contain download software that will fully download the up to date version of the game. So what's the point in having a useless disc that does nothing and has no data?.
3) People will buy cd keys now and not physical copy's anymore because they are completely useless and take time to be send etc which all isn't needed with digital.
4) People will buy games from other country's for cheap prices and buy it through cd key websites. Which kills all your game retailers in seconds off.
Nobody is going to walk to a store and buy a game on a touch screen in that store, they could get that game by 10 different shops cheaper with the click of a button on there ipads.
We are so far here already that every cloth shop is falling over, as everybody and everything is buying digital more and more to the point they even order there grocery's and all there appliance through websites because they can even pay that stuff months late or on a loan of x amount a month. And everything gets free delivered towards your doorstep with a 100 day return policy unless you damage it.
Hell even with cloths you order a item, get it send home, you can fit it use it for 100 days and return it if you don't like it and get a full refund without questions with a box and a sticker where you can send the cloths back to the company straight away at a drop off centers on your way to work or even at company's itself cost free and effort free.
The only thing that will be left are hubs for people to pick there stuff up. and they are already making drive ins here next to highways to pick up all your packages if your company isn't providing.
There is honestly no reason to go too a shopping mall anymore unless you are a tourist.
I do not have an issue because it is a low cost entry point, but because of what this represents in the battle against physical media and used games... foot in the door and hoping to bust it wide open in the following generations.
There is no battle anybody that thinks this honestly is just fooling themselves, if there was a battle it was already lost ages ago as digital is a natural evolution of physical and will be pushed by all party's on the last medium that doesn't have it yet consoles.
The poor internet connections and data caps excuses are honestly not a issue . They could heavily compress download files to a fraction of the data they got now on blu-rays and bad internet speeds with unstable connections are also not going to be a issue with download clients that will pauze and reconnect when they can and download the file over night without issue's if its big.
The only people that get shafted are people on dail up modems. but at that point you need to start to ask some questions to yourself.
I know people with absolute trash internet connections and are already for a decade digital only on PC without any issue's. And with trash i mean data caps, 2mbit internet connections if they are lucky with losing connections multiple times in a play session.
