who knows how many people are really into that tho, id wanna see offical statments on the % of retail vs digital

like i said id wanna see microsoft comment on the attach rate on that, 40% sounds way to fucking high for digital vs retail at this point in time to me when bestbuy/amazon sell new games 20% off

Last year 56% of all video game sales were digital compared to 44% physical. In September of this year digital sales on Sony and Microsoft combined was 500 million dollars. If that was only AAA games,which it obviously isn't then that would be over 8 million copies of games sold at retail. Lets trim that even in half to account for indies and all of that and say that 4 million copies of retail games were sold digitally. If Gears had been released in September when the numbers are even lower compared to October you don't think Gears of war would be even 10% of that 4 million?

yeah there are a shit town more downloadable only games then retail on top of all retail games having a download choice, again id wanna sony or m$ say generally this is how the split looks and go from that

And the vast majority of those downloadable only games are like $5-10. Those add up of course but the bulk is still AAA titles. All the top paid for games on the xbox store are AAA titles and 90% of gamers don't buy many indie games unless they are a hardcore gamer. Microsoft and sony will never flat out come out and say "31.32% of X game was digital" but a bit of common sense and research can give you a fairly accurate number to go buy. And considering 99% of the video game media and communities say its 30-40% I'm going to go ahead and say that is generally accurate

I pretty much only buy my games digitally.

and i buy all my games retail unless i have 2 buy digital

See I have no tax when buying digitally. Plus I don't have to worry about losing a game or anything.

This post was edited by Goobear on Nov 8 2016 09:32am

i get %20 off retail games with GCU so new games for me are 52$ i live on my own and dont lend my games out im a collector