Before this week, I had only bought a few games the digital way. Those were Star Trek Online, SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive classics and Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers. But this week I discovered a few deals on steam that I simply could not resist.
I bought the Bioshock 1 & 2 deal, the GTA Classic deal and today the GTA IV deal. And I must tell you. It feels great. I realized I really don't care about having a physical copy, as long as I always have access to my games through steam of course. Digital distribution is a rising star, and it is rising fast. Digital distribution has so many advantages. My dreams are that it will lead to an industry where the developers themselves publish the games and therefor they won't be influenced by publishers opinions on how they should make their games. Don't you agree?
What makes the digital distribution even better is that is much easier to find good deals. I am a student so if I were to buy physical copies of all my games, then I could only afford like 1 new game every month (I don't really need more than one though, but SILENCE) and I like to buy games. I advise you all to keep your eyes open for digital deals! Its awesome :)
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
You may be able to find good deals on steam etc, which is good. But if you buy the disc copy, when finished with it you could trade it in towards another game, which you cannot do with digital copies.
You may be able to afford more than one game per month by trading in disc copies of games.
There are pro's and con's of disc v digital games, but I prefer having disc.
Here in UK, waiting a month or two can get you a game for half the price, if not more on disc, where as the digital copy can still be full price. I find that I can get disc copies cheaper than download copies on PSN.
there'd probably be large pockets of the market that wouldn't take part in digital distribution. just like ian said about not being able to trade in and getting games cheaper, the (American) internet infrastructure is extremely lacking. You'd literally have no sales of games in rural areas, because the best they got is like a 768kbps satellite internet connection, and they'd probably be paying like 60-70 dollars a month. Digital distribution may or may not be the future, but it is currently advancing at an extremely slow crawl. The only reason it's where it's at now is because the companies pushed for it, doesn't mean it worked.