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Civil Discussion: Will Physical Media die?
larryinc64:
--- Quote from: Beastman1975 on November 18, 2012, 09:27:56 AM ---if they ever did away with physical media it would probably wreck our market system as we know , all the stores that rely on those sales that would either lay off a large % their workforce or close all together
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And they still need the retailers to sell Consoles, Controllers, Point cards, HDDs,Ect. and If they piss them off by not giving them a product to sell they may not carry them.
wiggy:
ESPECIALLY because there's literally negative profit selling consoles. The ONLY reason retailers even carry them is so that customers will buy games to go along with it.
larryinc64:
Just a point of interest, I was watching a menu walkthroough of the Wii U and apparently you can order game discs to be sent to your house through the system. That's an interesting way to bypass stores.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibJMZEu_eE
JDavis:
--- Quote from: Beastman1975 on November 18, 2012, 09:27:56 AM ---if i converted every dvd i have id need over 7 tb of hdd space and thats not including blue rays suure space saveing would be nice but not actually owning what you buy is a big negative to me , and netflix pretty much sucks lately , when i joined they got new releases all the time but over the last year or so they hardly get new movie releases , apparently the studios want to much for the licenceing, if it wernt for their anime selection and tv shows id have probably dropped it by now
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I'm actually cancelling my Netflix at the end of my current billing cycle, simply because my DVD/Blu-ray collection has started to go into the same problem as my game collection: Shelves full of them, and many of them I've never watched. Until I catch up, no Netflix.
Harp00nX:
Everyone should resist digital downloads, if you want a game buy a physical copy of it or demand it be made available because once they get everything on download only we will all have lost. Control that is, once you don't physically own something you no longer control how, when and where you can use it. Digital distribution and cloud bs is just a massive open door to DRM and publisher control over you. Don't encourage it!