Multi EA says digital sales will account for almost half of game sales

[IntoxNitram]

EA expects that by the end of this year, a whopping 40 per cent of game sales will be digital. “The consumer is shifting faster than we know or we expected,” CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted during an earnings call overnight, where he revealed that 33 per cent of his organisation’s sales from the fiscal year that’s just finished came via full game downloads.

Source: EA Expects Digital to Account for Almost Half of Game Sales Soon

Seems to make sense to me. I probably have a 50-50 split between physical and digital (I buy whatever is cheaper) but with the rise of PC gaming which is mainly digital and external hard drives meaning digital games are possible on consoles like PS4, this seems inevitable.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I can see this being the case, sad as it is.

 

[IntoxNitram]

I can see this being the case, sad as it is.

It doesn't personally bother me but consoles need to come with bigger hard drives and honestly internet speeds need to improve in some areas for it to be really possible.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

It doesn't personally bother me but consoles need to come with bigger hard drives and honestly internet speeds need to improve in some areas for it to be really possible.

internet speeds need to improve ten times over. I still read how some people don't have internet cables running to their homes.