So you poll says 86% of you readers won't buy another console? Well, I think that are lying through their teeth. They are big fibbers.
All the statistics show that 85% to 95% of games sold are digitally downloaded from a online storefront. Everyone in the entertainment market offered DVD, Blu-Rays, Music CD, and video games on discs; and yet fighningly few bought physical media in teh last 12 years. Nobody had locked buyers in a dungeon, nobody stopped manufactures things people would buy. Consumers were free to buy movies; but they'd rather downloade or stream them. People were given the choice to purchase CD music outright and they choose to use Spotify or iMusic. And teh same for films, DVDs and Blu-Ray were made and people did not buy or collect them. In the era of PS4 Sony showed they would make games on discs and not go down the dark path XBox One was proposing. And, what did consumer do? Well, they bought 90% of their games online.
Your online poll is a howash, and i think you could figure that out. Either all the DF members are part of the 5% that buys physical games, something I doubt since most of them are Valve Steam users, or they like to talk a big game.
I'm sorry I just do not see this taking off. Jet Moto, Wipeout, Radial G, Antigravitator, Kinetica, etc have all be out there with a dozen more and taht era has ended, these 'space racer' games have not been popular since 1999. Second, this is ***** SW: The Phantom Menace association slop - the connection does not help this.
They made this because it cheap and easy compared to a Star Wars games people would want, this is forgettable dreck that nobody asked for.
The problem Microsoft has is they run their company in a ay that is antithetical to "attachment" or "fandom" for too long. Too few people care if they survive or make consoles or games.
Windows 11 is a catastrophe, even if they make money, they utter loathing people have for their OS is huge. Their "You don't need our crap console" (I'm paraphrasing) advertising campaign was taken at face value and people bought less of their hardware.
Nothing Microsoft has talked about is interesting at all, in fact people are openly skeptical that everything that have said for the past three or four weeks is just damage control - few people see ist as and indicator of where they are going but more of a indication of what they are trying to hide.
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Re: "PS5 Will Be My Last Console": After 45K Votes, 86% of DF Viewers Say Sony Should Reconsider Killing Physical Games
So you poll says 86% of you readers won't buy another console? Well, I think that are lying through their teeth. They are big fibbers.
All the statistics show that 85% to 95% of games sold are digitally downloaded from a online storefront. Everyone in the entertainment market offered DVD, Blu-Rays, Music CD, and video games on discs; and yet fighningly few bought physical media in teh last 12 years. Nobody had locked buyers in a dungeon, nobody stopped manufactures things people would buy. Consumers were free to buy movies; but they'd rather downloade or stream them. People were given the choice to purchase CD music outright and they choose to use Spotify or iMusic. And teh same for films, DVDs and Blu-Ray were made and people did not buy or collect them. In the era of PS4 Sony showed they would make games on discs and not go down the dark path XBox One was proposing. And, what did consumer do? Well, they bought 90% of their games online.
Your online poll is a howash, and i think you could figure that out. Either all the DF members are part of the 5% that buys physical games, something I doubt since most of them are Valve Steam users, or they like to talk a big game.
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I'm sorry I just do not see this taking off. Jet Moto, Wipeout, Radial G, Antigravitator, Kinetica, etc have all be out there with a dozen more and taht era has ended, these 'space racer' games have not been popular since 1999. Second, this is ***** SW: The Phantom Menace association slop - the connection does not help this.
They made this because it cheap and easy compared to a Star Wars games people would want, this is forgettable dreck that nobody asked for.
Re: Xbox At GDC 2026: Windows And Console Converge For The Next Generation
The problem Microsoft has is they run their company in a ay that is antithetical to "attachment" or "fandom" for too long. Too few people care if they survive or make consoles or games.
Windows 11 is a catastrophe, even if they make money, they utter loathing people have for their OS is huge. Their "You don't need our crap console" (I'm paraphrasing) advertising campaign was taken at face value and people bought less of their hardware.
Nothing Microsoft has talked about is interesting at all, in fact people are openly skeptical that everything that have said for the past three or four weeks is just damage control - few people see ist as and indicator of where they are going but more of a indication of what they are trying to hide.