How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? 478
GamesIndustry is running an interview with Theodore Bergquist, CEO of GamersGate, in which he forecasts the death of physical game distribution in favor of digital methods, perhaps in only a few years. He says, "Look at the music industry, look at 2006 when iTunes went from not being in the top six of sellers — in the same year in December it was top three, and the following year number one. I think digital distribution is absolutely the biggest threat [traditional retailers] can ever have." Rock, Paper, Shotgun spoke with Capcom's Christian Svensson, who insists that developing digital distribution is one of their top priorities, saying Capcom will already "probably do as much digital selling as retail in the current climate." How many of the games you acquire come on physical media these days? At what point will the ease of immediate downloads outweigh a manual and a box to stick on your shelf (if it doesn't already)?
Yeah, Pirate Bay doesn't do boxed media !! (Score:3, Funny)
Boxed media is dead !! Pirate Bay confirms it !!
Re:Physical is still the best bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
The question is, why are they measuring bandwidth levels in Internet Explorer versions? :-)
Re:It's all a question of media (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's more of a fascist corporatist model.
Because we treat corporations legally as people and because they had almost unlimited wealth for the last 30 years, they changed the laws to destroy capitalism wherever they could.
We are now free to choose from LeftSockPuppet or RightSockPuppet. If either sockpuppet looks dangerous to the corporations then they flood their news stations with damaging stories about the sockpuppet and we obediently vote for the other sockpuppet instead.
I'm so sick of sock puppets. I'm glad we finally voted in a marionette.
Re:BEHOLD! (Score:1, Funny)
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