The ironic part is both sony and Ms are wanting to promote digital sales vs retail. Its their way of limiting the 2nd hand market that denies developers and publishers a piece of that lucrative market.

Every copy of a game that gets downloaded via PS+ or the live gold program as part of the paid membership is a retail sale lost. Now granted it might not be a big thing on XBL because the content is much older but you take the more recent offerings that + has (Like Bioshock Infinite for ex) and we are left wondering why a company like irrational Games is closing down. I mean we are buying their games....arent we?

There are pro and cons to going digital vs retail. for me its about the collectable nature of the physical product but i wont pass up a deal on a digital version if its something substantial. there are quite a few PSP digital games i purchased because they were dirt cheap, even when compared to the used market from Gamestop.

So the sensationalist title really doesnt fit when you factor in Steam as well as PSN are into selling digital versions of retail games for less as well. This is a good thing because many have been saying that digital versions SHOULD BE CHEAPER and now that this experiment is happening people want to say its a bad thing????

Oh I forgot, its only bad because it's MS that is doing it...smh.

"Every copy of a game that gets downloaded via PS+ or the live gold program as part of the paid membership is a retail sale lost. Now granted it might not be a big thing on XBL because the content is much older but you take the more recent offerings that + has (Like Bioshock Infinite for ex) and we are left wondering why a company like irrational Games is closing down. I mean we are buying their games....arent we?" - It might be a lost retail sale but it's not a lost sale it's not like MS and Sony didn't pay for the digital licenses for these games albeit they would have probably gotten a nice discount as well but it's not like they are getting it for free so we/they are still supporting the devs.

"This is a good thing because many have been saying that digital versions SHOULD BE CHEAPER and now that this experiment is happening people want to say its a bad thing????

Oh I forgot, its only bad because it's MS that is doing it...smh." - How is it in any way an experiment and just not a regular discount? I fail to see it because looking at major nelson's website you can see that 3 titles in total now including Ryse have had this weekly Gold discount offer. Lococycle and Crimson Dragon and now Ryse have had this weekly gold discount offer. So where does them *experiment* with DD prices come from? Please show me because I clearly can't see it. And no am not just attacking MS. Did I say the discount was bad? No all I said was that it's not an experiment and it's more a part of a weekly gold offer MS does.

I agree darthv...got Lego Marvel in a PS4 flash sale for 30$ this weekend

Digital deals like these is what MS and Sony NEED to continue to do, digital games just shouldn't be the same price as physical copies

But this certainly isn't a war on retail....MGSV GZ is wageing it own war as well then its 40 retail and 30 digital

That makes perfect sense really, why would you be selling your console without all the things it came with and needs to actually be used.

I doubt those people are selling at GameStop

Correct. This is why day one games cost me practically nothing now

I preferred goin to Circuit City but that died out. Years back I'd go to Best Buy cause of Gamer Club, now Best Buy barely sells games and doesn't sell Blu-rays and looks dead most of the time. Same with GameStop, these stores look like a barren wasteland of Funko Pops and anime figures. These retail stores don't seem to care about pulling in customers. Those figurines are neat, I collect them too but they ain't pulling me into a GS. Rather than attracting gamers they've pay walled everything behind a subscription. As if they weren't already cheapskates back then with their trade ins.

I still go in there and browse, but never buy anything, the video game section is getting smaller and smaller, even the PS5/Series X/Switch game selection is getting tiny.

I miss Best Buy's Gamer Club, I used to get pre-orders for like 20% off often with other discounts then get points I could trade into discount rebates. It was so good, getting day 1 games for like $30.

When they shut that down I stopped buying games day 1 almost completely.

I often think about times like that and how good we had it, before social media and smart phones gave way to a generation that expects instant gratification.