More Talk On the Rise of Digital Distribution
“If you look at the model adopted by the music industry, it is getting rarer and rarer that you would physically buy an album. iTunes, Amazon MP3 etc is a faster way of getting what you want. The trick is educating the public to be confident of buying things in this way. It is obviously working looking at how many apps have been sold on iTunes for instance. Extrapolating this into Movies and then games, it is just a matter of time before the public confidence in ‘soft goods’ grows to a point where convenience outweighs owning a physical copy.” – Traveller’s Tales director Jon Burton
Source: Develop Online
It’s going to happen eventually, I just don’t think it will be soon. All it will take though, I think, is one of the bigger named publishers switching over to focus on that form and it will happen quickly. We just need to figure out how it will work and work we, as gamers, are willing to pay.
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