A Boxless Industry - Digital Downloads

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 27, 2005 @04:35AM from the steam-for-everyone dept.

Next Generation is running an article entitled Gaming's Digital Future, discussing the reality that digital downloads are likely to be commonplace in the industry in the near future. Today they've polled publishers for their opinions, with developer and distributor opinions later in the week. From the article: "While the digital distribution of music took that industry by surprise, and Hollywood is still figuring out the best way to utilize digital distribution for movies; the videogame industry has embraced digital distribution as a new revenue stream for videogames new and old, at least on the PC side of the games business."

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Re:The end of the stores and the end of publishers by garcia · 2005-09-27 04:52 · Score: 0, Troll

Good riddance with both, I suppose, as games will be either less expensive or better produced without the middlemen of publishers and retailers both taking a cut.

Less expensive than what? Than they are currently? LOL. If anything they will keep the prices the same and claim it's "ease" that you are gaining by this method. To them, it's ease of DRM and piracy containment that they are getting.