That’s not because of the discs lol. If you afford to spend 300 million on slop like concord, you can print discs. And a franchise like gta 6 can definitely afford them.
It is because of discs, actually. Every single extra dollar it costs to manufacture them is like 5% of the revenue from the sale of the game that the publisher loses out on. That’s huge.
I don’t see why not, they could before couldn’t they? Even if you want to stick to the cost argument, i don’t have to care about that, cause i need to look out for myself as a consumer. If they can’t provide a way for me to own the game, i’ll simply take my business elsewhere. There’s a reason i opted to buy a disc edition ps5 instead of a digital edition, because i didn’t want to be locked to their storefront. That hasn’t changed one generation later, so if that’s the only option i’m just not going to buy it. Also, you claim physical is dead, but the situation is more nuanced when you look at the sales on a per game basis. There are definitely a lot of games that sell more digitally, but there are also first party titles like rift apart that have a 75%/25% physical/digital ratio. I think they’re definitely taking a risk alienating those first party customers by going digital only, but we’ll see what happens i guess.
You absolutely don’t have to care about the profitability of the companies who make the products you enjoy……unless of course you want them to keep making more of those products.
As for games like rift apart, that game had a physical copy bundled with consoles for a long time. Anything bundled isn’t worth counting.
Also where did you get your physical:digital split for that?
By Sony’s own figures, over 85% of all first party titles sold are digital.
So if the sequel to your favourite game of all time was too big to fit on one disc, had been in development for 10 years, and had spent all of the developer/publishers money getting it out, and they opted to make it require a download as well as the disc, and the game was going to be your favourite game of all time, never to be beaten……you’d prefer they go out of business and never make another game?
It’s significantly more expensive than simply having the rest be downloaded via an update.
With developers going under left right and centre, putting an even higher cost on their production is a death sentence.
That’s not because of the discs lol. If you afford to spend 300 million on slop like concord, you can print discs. And a franchise like gta 6 can definitely afford them.
It is because of discs, actually. Every single extra dollar it costs to manufacture them is like 5% of the revenue from the sale of the game that the publisher loses out on. That’s huge.
I’m sure they’ll be fine compared to the 30% that sony/steam takes.
So because they already lose 30%, they can afford to lose another 5%?
I don’t see why not, they could before couldn’t they? Even if you want to stick to the cost argument, i don’t have to care about that, cause i need to look out for myself as a consumer. If they can’t provide a way for me to own the game, i’ll simply take my business elsewhere. There’s a reason i opted to buy a disc edition ps5 instead of a digital edition, because i didn’t want to be locked to their storefront. That hasn’t changed one generation later, so if that’s the only option i’m just not going to buy it. Also, you claim physical is dead, but the situation is more nuanced when you look at the sales on a per game basis. There are definitely a lot of games that sell more digitally, but there are also first party titles like rift apart that have a 75%/25% physical/digital ratio. I think they’re definitely taking a risk alienating those first party customers by going digital only, but we’ll see what happens i guess.
You absolutely don’t have to care about the profitability of the companies who make the products you enjoy……unless of course you want them to keep making more of those products.
As for games like rift apart, that game had a physical copy bundled with consoles for a long time. Anything bundled isn’t worth counting.
Also where did you get your physical:digital split for that?
By Sony’s own figures, over 85% of all first party titles sold are digital.
If they screw me over then no i don’t want them to make more products, i can live without.
So if the sequel to your favourite game of all time was too big to fit on one disc, had been in development for 10 years, and had spent all of the developer/publishers money getting it out, and they opted to make it require a download as well as the disc, and the game was going to be your favourite game of all time, never to be beaten……you’d prefer they go out of business and never make another game?
That’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.