The end of EB Games?

AUSSIE-DOG said:I like, MOST people want a hard copy.......

SACRED said:

AUSSIE-DOG said:I like, MOST people want a hard copy.......

pfft talk for yourself

AUSSIE-DOG said: Meh.......... Nothing New.........
I like, MOST people want a hard copy.......
Game stores will still be around when they dig me a hole and throw me in it.......... I only buy hard copies, so I can trade them, sell them or frisbee them out to sea if I please.........
Once companies turn to online distribution only the fast freefall plummet in sales will quickly make them change their strategy and a return to hard copies will ensure.......

Gwizz said: id have to agree with Gaetano on everything. I myself like hard copies, i have over 500 dvds, all store bought. I have over 15 Xbox games, all hard copies bought from stores/auctions. Although when the time comes where u can download games and storing them rather than having hard copies, i will be sadly enough, never be buying a hard copy game/dvd again.

Gaetano said: 30 years ago, people preferred pen and paper to a computer.
15 years ago, people preferred filing cabinets instead of a computer.
See what I did there?

dagamster said: Which would you rather:
A. a real copy of super mario bros. and a nes console
B. a downloaded rom and an emulator
C. all of the above.

Gaetano said:

Gwizz said: id have to agree with Gaetano on everything. I myself like hard copies, i have over 500 dvds, all store bought. I have over 15 Xbox games, all hard copies bought from stores/auctions. Although when the time comes where u can download games and storing them rather than having hard copies, i will be sadly enough, never be buying a hard copy game/dvd again.

I'm actually in the process of ripping all my DVDs into digital AVI's. I just need a massive HDD. Once I have that, I'll have a substantial amount of extra room in my pad.

BBking said:

Gaetano said: 30 years ago, people preferred pen and paper to a computer.
15 years ago, people preferred filing cabinets instead of a computer.
See what I did there?

People still use pens and paper. See what I did there?
DD will grow but it won't grow is such a way that it will kill the hard copy market. If there is a big enough market for the hard copy distribution, it will be available.
Maybe in 10 years DD will be bigger than hard copy (in some ways and products, it is) but for that to be the only way to purchace a game? I doubt it.

AUSSIE-DOG said: I only buy hard copies, so I can trade them, sell them or frisbee them out to sea if I please.........

desi said:

AUSSIE-DOG said: I only buy hard copies, so I can trade them, sell them or frisbee them out to sea if I please.........

The inability to trade in PC games due to online user registration makes this argument moot for PC gamers. I used to like getting hard copies too, until I realised I was paying literally 150-200% more at the store than I would on Steam, and I wouldn't be able to get rid of the game anyway.

Gaetano said: BUT YOU DON'T HAVE THE HARD COPY ANYMORE!
Once online versions start dropping price and selling for considerably less than the hard copy counterparts, their opinions will change. Who is going to buy a $100 game, when they can download it for $60? Plastic is not going to appreciate over the years, and unless you have a super-dooper limited edition that MIGHT appreciate, you will have no other choice but to get a digital copy, unless you want to pay almost double the price. But it won't even get to that. Once online copies start selling at half the price, you can wave goodbye to hard versions.