Any retainler sho is not making contingency plans to deal witht he threat of digital download has (as this title suggests) their head in the sand. I will be shocked if we have physical media after the next generation, and I suspect that most games will be bought by download long before then.

Game size is not the issue - with 20mb broadband which a lot of us have already and a lot more are getting every day - a user can download a 25GB game in around three hours - that's less time than it takes to drive to your local town and buy a game from retail and get home. It's WAY less time than it takes to arrive once it's been ordered from GameStop.com. Downloading is the way things are gonna go - and retailers shareholders need to learn to deal.

Doc, that's a nice gaming utopian dream you paint, but I'm still sceptical. Why? Because of the nature of games consoles from country to country. While us rich well off buggers in the U.K, E.U and U.S etc have broadband, many places don't. Because of this dvd game media will be around for ages yet.

PS3 and 360 have started the downloadable games stuff on consoles well, but its years away before the like of physical media is taken over by downloads.

The day when gaming goes 'digital only' is likely going to be the day that I stop properly gaming.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with that mindset.

I second that motion, which is exactly why I'm building a collection of games. All this move to DL is cool but a threatening knife to the throat of customers.

I say if it ain't broke, don't fix it, just tweak it.

I agree. I mean, I was pissed when someone gave me more than 640k of RAM.




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