Re: Xbox One
With the exception of XBLA / PSN / Indie games, I don't purchase anything via digital download. I did purchase a few games on demand for Xbox 360 but they all averaged out to $20 or less. Just like those XBLA / PSN / Indie games, my limit is $20 for all digital games because it's not worth the investment for me especially if there's no demo to try out the game. Watching walkthrough videos on youtube is the best way to see if im going to like a game or not but I would much rather play the game and feel how the game controls and whatnot.
Regarding music, movies and tv shows, my interest is nowhere near video games. I don't even remember the last music CD I purchased and I would usually buy the CD, copy it onto my laptop and flash drive as a backup and then sell the CD on ebay to get back half my money. Movie wise, I may buy 3-5 a year if that. I'll watch it and sell it unless it's a movie I know I'll watch over and over again and thus, I'll keep it.
TV shows, I sometimes download the episodes on 360 but stopped with last season's The Walking Dead. Now, I'll just wait until it goes on Netflix. For example, I missed the second season of The Following and majority of the syfy show Helix and also wanted to watch the TV series of From Dusk Till Dawn. I signed up for Netflix today for $10 including tax for a month. I'll watch all three shows from start to finish and if there's nothing added by January, I'll cancel my subscription.
I realize that I have spent way too much money on all this stuff in the past and it's not worth it especially when aside from video games, CD's, movies and TV series aren't worth as much as they used to be.
Game wise, im a GCU member at Best Buy and just bought Lords of the Fallen yesterday in their cyber Monday sale for $32 plus tax. Even if I end up not getting into the game or whatnot, I can easily trade it in to Best Buy for around $30 in credit. Since I used credit to buy the game, at worse, I'll lose $5-$10 which I can consider a rental.
But to spend $60 on any game via digital download, hell no. Especially when there's rarely a playable demo for games nowadays. Retail disc wise and using my GCU membership at Best Buy, I was able to purchase, play and finish Knack, Watch Dogs, The Last of Us Remastered, Madden NFL 15, Middle-Earth: Shadow or Mordor and The Evil Within for $80 cash with the rest being gift cards from trading the previous game in and reward certs.
I only recently had to spend $105 on Unity and Rogue but im trading in Unity tomorrow and once im done with Far Cry 4, Rogue and hopefully, Lords of the Fallen, I'll have around $150 in credit, possibly more.
I would never be able to do any of this via digital download. And yeah, I can see people are so used to being able to go from one to the other without having to get up to swap discs but two minutes to swap a game disc is nothing in comparison to the amount of money that I save and the amount of games that im able to play and finish.
I don't see game consoles being all digital until PlayStation 6 / Xbox 5 at the earliest simply because all the companies would be losing way too much money and even then, it's 50/50.
People also need to realize that unlike Steam, you're not going to get all these kick *** sales on a weekly basis mainly because pirating console games is far less than what it is on PC so publishers try to minimize that by offering great discounts, deals and sales.
This will never happen on consoles. You can check on Xbox One and PS4 and see launch titles still at $40 (possibly even at $60) despite being able to purchase them cheaper in stores on a retail disc.
Too many people think that going all digital will be better for us gamers (consumers) but it won't be. If downloadable titles like Oddworld are $30, what makes anyone think that AAA games will be the same or less than $60?
Also, without game discs, there's no incentive or reason for publishers to lower the price of games simply because there would be no other way to purchase and play the game. You simply pay the $60 to play the game or you don't. Since there's so many people who spend money on avatars, themes, etc. these same people will be the ones who purchase those $60 games on launch day via digital download.
I like digital downloads for XBLA / PSN / Indie games and online capability is great for those who play online as well as updates and patches and DLC if you're into that stuff but once there's no other options in regards to buying a game on release day, the gaming industry will crash in my opinion simply because the majority of gamers like myself will no longer care because there's no more choices/options.
To me, it's all about choices and options. Just like in the games themselves, the more the better. Sorry for the long post.
Originally posted by ZB9
Regarding music, movies and tv shows, my interest is nowhere near video games. I don't even remember the last music CD I purchased and I would usually buy the CD, copy it onto my laptop and flash drive as a backup and then sell the CD on ebay to get back half my money. Movie wise, I may buy 3-5 a year if that. I'll watch it and sell it unless it's a movie I know I'll watch over and over again and thus, I'll keep it.
TV shows, I sometimes download the episodes on 360 but stopped with last season's The Walking Dead. Now, I'll just wait until it goes on Netflix. For example, I missed the second season of The Following and majority of the syfy show Helix and also wanted to watch the TV series of From Dusk Till Dawn. I signed up for Netflix today for $10 including tax for a month. I'll watch all three shows from start to finish and if there's nothing added by January, I'll cancel my subscription.
I realize that I have spent way too much money on all this stuff in the past and it's not worth it especially when aside from video games, CD's, movies and TV series aren't worth as much as they used to be.
Game wise, im a GCU member at Best Buy and just bought Lords of the Fallen yesterday in their cyber Monday sale for $32 plus tax. Even if I end up not getting into the game or whatnot, I can easily trade it in to Best Buy for around $30 in credit. Since I used credit to buy the game, at worse, I'll lose $5-$10 which I can consider a rental.
But to spend $60 on any game via digital download, hell no. Especially when there's rarely a playable demo for games nowadays. Retail disc wise and using my GCU membership at Best Buy, I was able to purchase, play and finish Knack, Watch Dogs, The Last of Us Remastered, Madden NFL 15, Middle-Earth: Shadow or Mordor and The Evil Within for $80 cash with the rest being gift cards from trading the previous game in and reward certs.
I only recently had to spend $105 on Unity and Rogue but im trading in Unity tomorrow and once im done with Far Cry 4, Rogue and hopefully, Lords of the Fallen, I'll have around $150 in credit, possibly more.
I would never be able to do any of this via digital download. And yeah, I can see people are so used to being able to go from one to the other without having to get up to swap discs but two minutes to swap a game disc is nothing in comparison to the amount of money that I save and the amount of games that im able to play and finish.
I don't see game consoles being all digital until PlayStation 6 / Xbox 5 at the earliest simply because all the companies would be losing way too much money and even then, it's 50/50.
People also need to realize that unlike Steam, you're not going to get all these kick *** sales on a weekly basis mainly because pirating console games is far less than what it is on PC so publishers try to minimize that by offering great discounts, deals and sales.
This will never happen on consoles. You can check on Xbox One and PS4 and see launch titles still at $40 (possibly even at $60) despite being able to purchase them cheaper in stores on a retail disc.
Too many people think that going all digital will be better for us gamers (consumers) but it won't be. If downloadable titles like Oddworld are $30, what makes anyone think that AAA games will be the same or less than $60?
Also, without game discs, there's no incentive or reason for publishers to lower the price of games simply because there would be no other way to purchase and play the game. You simply pay the $60 to play the game or you don't. Since there's so many people who spend money on avatars, themes, etc. these same people will be the ones who purchase those $60 games on launch day via digital download.
I like digital downloads for XBLA / PSN / Indie games and online capability is great for those who play online as well as updates and patches and DLC if you're into that stuff but once there's no other options in regards to buying a game on release day, the gaming industry will crash in my opinion simply because the majority of gamers like myself will no longer care because there's no more choices/options.
To me, it's all about choices and options. Just like in the games themselves, the more the better. Sorry for the long post.
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