You make a lot of good points, its foolish to underestimate the customers that are accustomed to the brick and mortar method, but if the experience is seemless enough i don't think the transition would be all that hard to pull off. Especially if XBOX Arcade and Nintendo's online game distributions are a hit this coming generation. The next generation is what- 2009? 2010? Speeds will be faster, online penetration will be larger, and Microsoft will be (if all goes well for them) on their third generation of LIVE. A system like that creates a seamless transaction- order a game the way you order a movie on a cable box. No worries about giving away a CC number- they already have it. Granted there are issues from bandwith to piracy, but hell its 2010 anyway so we are all probably slaves to robot monkeys anyway.
Who knows though- its all speculation anyway, i just believe for publishers and consumers there are just too many positives in the digital distribution collumn.
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Hey man! Thanks, I just saw the article got slashdotted. Unfortunately I don't know if many people actually read the article, it was more a focus on gamestore retail dissappearing in the next generation, and not on the death of indie retail. Indie retail has been dead for some time, this was about EB and Gamestop's future problems. that was really the dialog I was trying to create, but the title of this thread makes it misleading. Oh well, good to hear from ya.
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You make a lot of good points, its foolish to underestimate the customers that are accustomed to the brick and mortar method, but if the experience is seemless enough i don't think the transition would be all that hard to pull off. Especially if XBOX Arcade and Nintendo's online game distributions are a hit this coming generation. The next generation is what- 2009? 2010? Speeds will be faster, online penetration will be larger, and Microsoft will be (if all goes well for them) on their third generation of LIVE. A system like that creates a seamless transaction- order a game the way you order a movie on a cable box. No worries about giving away a CC number- they already have it. Granted there are issues from bandwith to piracy, but hell its 2010 anyway so we are all probably slaves to robot monkeys anyway. Who knows though- its all speculation anyway, i just believe for publishers and consumers there are just too many positives in the digital distribution collumn.
Hey man! Thanks, I just saw the article got slashdotted. Unfortunately I don't know if many people actually read the article, it was more a focus on gamestore retail dissappearing in the next generation, and not on the death of indie retail. Indie retail has been dead for some time, this was about EB and Gamestop's future problems. that was really the dialog I was trying to create, but the title of this thread makes it misleading. Oh well, good to hear from ya.