Pushsqure has postet an articel with the ratio of game bought pysical or digital this year. The ratio goes up for digital games. I’m still buy most of my games pysical, but what do you prefer.
I like that i’m able to resell, rent games and i have a bigger market for discouts in pysical games. I guess the biggest advantage if digital games it’s how easy it is to obtain them and you don’t have to stand up switching games. Not surprised that the games sold on the Switch have a much higher ratio of pysical games, there is just not enough memory on the system.
US
- PS5: 78% digital, 22% pysical
- XBS: 91% digital, 9% pysical (no gamepass included)
- NS: 53% digital, 47% pysical
EU
- PS5: 68% digital, 32% pysical
- XBS: 81% digital, 19% pysical
- NS: 35% digital, 65% pysical
I’m a PC gamer this gen, but I’ve always stuck with physical for consoles. They’d drop faster to the price I was looking for than digital did thanks to stuff like used games and stores having more incentive to clear inventory space. By the time games hit the price I wanted on digital months would go by.
And I never really trusted backwards compatibility support for older titles, so I liked being able to sell them off if I decided I wanted the new remastered version with the higher fps and resolution. Less an issue this gen, but that was my thinking the past generations.
I know a person that always want to new fifa, so sold the old on to get the new. More or less the same principle with remasters i guess. With that in mind i understand why games like fifa, cod selll that well on ps
Yeah roster updates make sports games dead if you like playing with up to date players. I moved on from sports games years ago because of that, and with all the predatory f2p monetization they have now on top of being full priced I won’t be back.
I never played them. So i can’t really relate