Re: What's to come of collecting?
yeah, I see game collecting as being on it's death bead within the next 10-20 years... The industry will most likely move to a download-only market leaving us with nothing to physically collect.
If you look at the PC market it's pretty much already there, and developers of console games are pushing the market in that direction already with the heavy reliance on "online pass" codes that lock out a bunch of features unless you bought the game new.
Really I see the CE game boom over the last couple of years as an attempt by the developers to generate extra revenue and encourage people to buy new.
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If I had to guess, I would suspect that Next generation or the generation after, we'll see something like if you want the game on "release day" you have to download it and then the physical release would come weeks or months after... The generation after that will likely be 100% download only.
While movies, music and PC games are much further along in this shift, I think consoles will have a much much SHORTER transition period, since they're essentially closed platforms. All it will take is one of the major consoles (Xbox 4/PS5) to go download only, and the others will follow within a generation.
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Last edited by twistedsymphony; 08-17-2011 at 08:20 PM.
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