Maguire: Digital Distribution Will Rule In 2018
by April 11, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Ten years from now, most folks will purchase new video game releases directly via online digital distribution services such as the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, rather than going through a third-party retailer. Or so says Sony Computer Entertainment Europe exec Ray Maguire:
Ten years from now the ratio of games sales will have gone from 90 per cent in-store to 90 per cent online.
Plausible. But 90 percent? Until ISPs start offering faster speeds with less-restrictive bandwidth limitations, I can’t see digital distribution replacing the retail market to such a degree for games.
Sony: Web sales will rule by 2018 [MCVUK]
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