I approve of the move, it is "green". Less weight = less fuel to transport. And it saves on paper needed, and the energy and pollutions costs associated with it. Full digital delivery has that upside. The downside potentially sucks though, so we will have to see how it plays out.The game manuals are digital for the following games I purchased on disk for PS4 and Xbox One
Killzone Shadow Fall
Forza 5
Dead Rising 3
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Games gop's death is so certaij I do not understand how anybody can pretend otherwise. The 10 years mentioned in that article seems extremely optimistic. GameStop will be gutted durin this gen and not survive through the next one in anything but a brand used elsewhere--at the very most.Microsoft Just Declared War on GameStop
*chuckle chuckle*
I'm accustomed to being right, but for some reason the arguments over GS and Xbox ONE have been particularly delicious
Games gop's death is so certaij I do not understand how anybody can pretend otherwise. The 10 years mentioned in that article seems extremely optimistic. GameStop will be gutted durin this gen and not survive through the next one in anything but a brand used elsewhere--at the very most.
Did you read that article? They are talking about MS offering somewhat cheaper copies of digital games. They are giving Ryse a price drop to $40 digitally. One of the worst rated games on the console, 3 months after it came out. You could have already found it via amazon deals for $40 before they dropped the price on the digital version.
The title of the article is highly misleading. Just because you test the waters with an old game that didn't sell to begin with by dropping the price to $40, that doesn't mean you're declaring war on anybody or anything. Sony gives games away. Full games...via PSN+ and they don't call it "war on gamestop". Why does it have to be Gamestop anyway? It could be all retailers, including the Microsoft stores which stock games on the shelf.
They say "Ryse is the type of game Gamestop is dependent on..." No it's not...the best selling games aren't Microsoft published titles. Ryse sales numbers are shit, barely selling above 500k in the US. With a URL of fool.com though you'd have to be an actual fool to take anything they say as any type of prediction.
"But that's just Microsoft, and as I've pointed out, the Xbox One isn't even selling well." I stopped reading there. This article is full of shit. While, the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One, selling the number of units they did in the time since release is not the definition of "not selling well".
Yeah that game is past its heyday already, but nothing changes. GS is still dead. As the article points out, GS has been completely out of the biggest ramp in gaming ever (mobile), it doesn't even sell PC games anymore, so once Console goes digital for its distribution say goodbye to GS. I'm surprised its stock hasn't cratered yet. I guess a lot of people with money don't understand anything about the internet.Did you read that article? They are talking about MS offering somewhat cheaper copies of digital games. They are giving Ryse a price drop to $40 digitally. One of the worst rated games on the console, 3 months after it came out. You could have already found it via amazon deals for $40 before they dropped the price on the digital version.
The title of the article is highly misleading. Just because you test the waters with an old game that didn't sell to begin with by dropping the price to $40, that doesn't mean you're declaring war on anybody or anything. Sony gives games away. Full games...via PSN+ and they don't call it "war on gamestop". Why does it have to be Gamestop anyway? It could be all retailers, including the Microsoft stores which stock games on the shelf.
They say "Ryse is the type of game Gamestop is dependent on..." No it's not...the best selling games aren't Microsoft published titles. Ryse sales numbers are shit, barely selling above 500k in the US. With a URL of fool.com though you'd have to be an actual fool to take anything they say as any type of prediction.
I guess a lot of people with money don't understand anything about the internet.
A simple rule of thumb is: Any business that relies on physical distribution of data = dead. Let's apply this rule and see how it has worked out:Or, they they understand that 99.9% of people who write articles about anything financial concerning gaming are idiots. How long have these analysts said the iPhone and Android are going to kill gaming? I guess, for some, the sky is always falling.
Yeah that game is past its heyday already, but nothing changes. GS is still dead. As the article points out, GS has been completely out of the biggest ramp in gaming ever (mobile), it doesn't even sell PC games anymore, so once Console goes digital for its distribution say goodbye to GS. I'm surprised its stock hasn't cratered yet. I guess a lot of people with money don't understand anything about the internet.
A simple rule of thumb is: Any business that relies on physical distribution of data = dead. Let's apply this rule and see how it has worked out:
1) CD stores...dead
2) Movie rental stores...dead
3) PC Game stores...dead
4) Console game stores...dead man walking
Pretty sure my gamestop doesn't sell PC games. I cannot think where they are.Wrong...gamestop does sell pc games and they offer digital downloads too.
Nobody else sells mobile games either but gamestop sells iTunes cards and Google play cards so in a round about way they do get some revenue from mobile devices. They even sell tablets and iPods etc.
PC games aside, all those things you just mentioned you could also do 10 years ago. And also 10 years ago you could get CDs and movies from CD & movie only stores, basically none of which exist anymore.You can buy CDs at best buy and Walmart and target everywhere. You can rent movies from red box and I see a lot of people do it, you can buy pc games from gamestop (yes they still carry them) best buy, Walmart, target etc. They are STILL available to buy on disk. That is how I buy most of my pc games, on disk.
They are talking about MS offering somewhat cheaper copies of digital games. They are giving Ryse a price drop to $40 digitally. One of the worst rated games on the console, 3 months after it came out.
You nailed it.Tip: It's not a price drop. That gem's on-sale for one week, nothing more. Microsoft is claiming it's a test of a new pricing scheme, but it's a one-week sale of a piece of eye candy, and it's right before the DLC starts rolling out. They're putting a game on-sale to sell more DLC, that's all. This is literally a one-week sale, so why anyone would believe it's a legitimate testing of a lower pricing model is beyond me.
Yea many Gamestops don't sell PC games at all, nothing new. Some still do but I've seen less and less that do.
Why would Xbox One owners be less confident of GameStop's future than PS4 owners... Or any other gaming platform?Hmmm... let me guess those hawking gamestop is doomed are xb one owners?
Why would Xbox One owners be less confident of GameStop's future than PS4 owners... Or any other gaming platform?
Rumors of xb one going without a disc drive, and they presumably are OK with buying most of their content via the online store. I still prefer discs, I just do. I can play my 10 yr old or whatever N64, you really think they are going to support all this stuff online for eternity? Nothing can replace having a physical collection of whatever you paid money to own, not borrow.
If you read the terms, you're borrowing the games essentially. Not cool with me.
You don't think as many PS4 owners download their games?Rumors of xb one going without a disc drive, and they presumably are OK with buying most of their content via the online store. I still prefer discs, I just do. I can play my 10 yr old or whatever N64, you really think they are going to support all this stuff online for eternity?
Or, they they understand that 99.9% of people who write articles about anything financial concerning gaming are idiots. How long have these analysts said the iPhone and Android are going to kill gaming? I guess, for some, the sky is always falling.