I completely agree. Since there are no manufacturing, storage and shipment costs digital games should be cheaper. Unfortunately, that is not possible because it would ruin the business of retailers as everyone starts to buy digital. Furthermore, the retailers may reprise buy refusing to stock products from the relevant company. Making digital games cheaper will create quite an industry wide mess.

This is the main thing for me, when I can buy the game for £60 online or £45 in a store, there is something inherently wrong.

My friend, that definiton of "real gamer" would exclude 95% of the gaming market. lol. All of us sell or tradein our consoles or games at some point. At least, the smart ones do so that not all of their hard-earned money goes in to the dumpster. For example, my PS3 was 3 years old, I had played almost all the games and it was on the verge of death with a broken HDMI port. I sold it for $200 and sold the games with it as well since they were not backwards compatible with the PS4 anyway. So does that makes me a "fake gamer" or a wise gamer? I recovered $300 from my old nearly dead console and games. That is the main benefit of physical games.

As for buying at sales, you cannot consider others stupid for buying sooner. Millions of people buy games day one. Somebody has to take the step and buy day one or out of sales period so the prices can fall gradually. There would be no sales or even the gaming industry if everybody started to wait for sales to buy.

All this time I thought a "real gamer" did whatever the f%ck he wanted. Thanks for correcting me.

A real gamer enjoys video games; nothing more, nothing less. While I'm the type who keeps all my games, that doesn't make me or anyone like me a "real gamer"; it just means I like to horde my games.

A smart gamer would also trade in their games. You can buy new game, beat it, then trade it in for $30-$40 at Gamestop or Best Buy... then put it towards their next game which is essentially only $25-$35 after taxes.

A smart gamer would then, if the game they traded interests them, use sales in combination with price matching and +xx% trade in value deals to make a profit to further fund their hobby and passion.

The only time I would claim someone isn't a "real gamer", is when they claim the definition is anything beyond enjoying gaming as a real hobby. So I must ask, are you a "real gamer"? If so, stop trying to make "gamer" into a clique when it isn't; it is a label used to show a level of passion and/or love in your hobby.

I accidentally disagreed.

I agree, it's not easy to break or scratch a blu-ray disc. And in 30+ years, you'll be able to emulate any game from today.

Stolen which happened to me a couple times. Nature seen that plenty of times to someone else. Kids breaking it which happened a lot to my friend. You say it's not easy to break but a lot of his disc broke.

Because of simple irresponsibility. I'm sorry but the argument is moot.

Why on earth would a kid be near a grown mans games/discs.

I have 3 nieces and not a single one goes near my games and if they do, they know not to mess with them.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP