Sony: By 2018, 90% Of Games Will Be Downloaded

[GamingJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Soldier

2018 is a LONG way away. By then a game download could take 5 minutes to a terabyte sized HDD. The physical copy is pretty moot. I'd assume it would be on a STEAM like system where it registers everything you own online and you can redownload onto any computer/system anywhere. If someone told you in 1998 that in 10 years, the vast majority of music will be obtained by downloading it for free, it's unlikely that you would believe them.

Exactly.

If you go back a decade and tell someone they are going to have a device, not much bigger than pack of baseball cards with 3000-5000 songs on it....they wouldn't have believed you.

I get why people are saying they want a hard copy, but people can and will change.

[Jethown]

I probably won't be playing games in 2018.

[Blzer]

Same reason I buy CDs in stores instead of on iTunes... sometimes I like to be able to display my purchased items.

That said, I'm not for this. I always feel like a giddy schoolboy again when I go to the store and see the front and back still in the wrapper, then as I open it 15 minutes later and pop it in for the first time.

Downloading wouldn't give me such an experience.

[hawkeyekid]

How would taking games over to a friend's house and playing work?

You're not going to take an entire console over right? And putting it on a memory device wouldn't work because then you could copy games pretty easily.