Originally posted by: CasioTech
so what, gamestop will find a way to have people trade in their HDD's with the games on them somehow.
That's a little far-fetched, don't you think?
Somehow I don't see blockbuster or gamestop going out of business.... ever. If games are solely online, that won't happen. Because in 5 years not everyone will have internet so publishers will still print discs. There will be a discount if you buy online of course but then the discs will be even more valuable because they will be extremely rare and sought after for those not keeping up with internet technologies.
Regardless if everyone has internet, it's still the way we're going. It won't happen in 5 years, but 10 years, maybe..... The rest of your paragraph is just guessing.
And what will happen if the HDD dies? Will you be allowed to d/l backups? If so, that will cause a whole other problem in terms of piracy.
Maybe you should read up on how the 360 and PS3 deal with this already. It's just like any other DRM, except it's on a closed system.
Are you guys saying the next gen won't even use optical drives just a hdd? Then what's the point of inventing a blueray player if everyone will just d/l games and movies to their 10 terabyte hdd's? This will happen eventually but not for another 10 years at least. What about all the other media stores like FYE and Best Buy who sell tons of media? All driven out of business?
ALL media is thought to be headed towards digital downloads. Once digital downloads are fully realized, then yes, an optical drive then simply becomes an added cost that can be dropped on a console. As for what happens to stores who sell media, they'll need to adapt and sell digitally, or figure out another business plan.
Hell, if BB or CC can't sell games, they won't want to sell the damn systems either, so if you want a ps5 or xbox1080 you would have to buy it from sony/ms.com along with all the games. The problem with that is, I'm not sure MS wants to deal directly with the public selling hardware and software to consumers. That's what the middleman is for, the same middleman you guys project is going to go out of business.
It's silly to think BB and CC would refuse to sell the systems because the media is going digital. And, this thread was solely about Gamestop, but you've slowly brought many other non-specialy companies into the discussion, and now say we're predicting all of them to go out of business. Let's keep it on subject.
even still, if the next gen has a 500gb hdd. That's only like fucking TEN GAMES on a blueray. That's nothing, if the average person wants to collect about 50 games or more, they would need a 2.5 terabyte hdd. What's the point of adding 5 hdds?!
This is the reason digital d/l's won't happen. Blueray is probably a penny per gb. HDD space will always be too damn expensive.
Sure, that ten games on a blu-ray, but name me 10 games right now that use 50GB of space. Hell, name me 10 games that use 25GB.
EDIT: I also wanted to add that masses are at least 3 years behind this board. A good portion of gamers (kids, parents, w/e) still play ps2 and DS games mostly, so in 3 years, they will only make the jump to the ps3 when they go on sale and games are cheap used.
Unless digital d/l's will be $10, paying $40+ will drive most people away if they can't resell the games. The sales will plummet because nobody will buy a game if they can't resell it or trade it in unless it's epic and this will hurt the industry.
I also think that the industry makes more than enough money. The average game doesn't cost as much as the average blockbuster movie, yet DVD's are $20 and games are $60. I don't get that.
You did say correctly about a good portion of gamers being kids, parents etc. However, you then assume these PS2 and DS users are suddenly going to start caring about the resell value on their games and being cost conscious.
As for DVD's versus games prices, movies are more universal, maybe that's why they are cheaper. I really don't know.
some games sell well but they pull them anyway because they get old. I'm sure metroid prime 3 or twilight princess doesn't sell well anymore and it's still all over the place at full price.
To suggest that a company purposefully pulls a well-selling game because it is old is kinda ignorant.
