Digital has been accounting for a bigger and bigger portion of the sales total each year, and in 2016 that portion was 74%, including full game digital downloads, subscriptions, DLC, mobile and social.
Codemasters hints at new game saying “Prepare For Something Different”. What could the latest game from them be? With F1 2020 already announced could it be a new Dirt game but "prepare for something different" could mean something else completely!
I think it will be some sort of new Dirt as the Dirt Twitter account posted the same thing
They sent me this in an email a day or two ago, it's something to do with dirt from what I remember.
Not another RPG rally game ffs even first person shooters are getting the rpg crap forced into them..,
Microsoft revealed that it had acquired two more studios: Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment. That brings the total numbers of studios they acquired this year to seven. Microsoft has a lot of confidence in these studios, with Matt Booty, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Studios, even saying that these developers “have the collective creative power and operational excellence to deliver the next industry game changers.”
I personally hope they acquire a couple more studios in 2019. This is the competitive Xbox that the industry has been wanting again for a while. Glad they are back to there roots. Which is games first.
I want some JP studios as well, as asian studios overall to truly compete right now. Xbox is american product to most easterners which most don't like.
Since we're putting requests in, since MS is championing cross-platform cross-platform, I would like them to also release all new games on the Sony platform ;-)
i hope they announce what each one is working on at e3. the door is wide open now that sony dropped out for next year.
I'm excited overall. This will keep Sony on it's toes! Will almost certainly get a good single-player xbox- pc title too.
When I confirmed my purchase of Cuphead on the Windows store, I let out an audible squeal. I instantly regretted the noise. I want to judge the game based on its merits, not my excitement for it. But I had a palpable amount of bias when purchasing this game.
Big impact on digital sales come from smart devices like phones and tablets.
I prefer physical for the collector aspect but i do enjoy digital for its convenience. I just wish that they would price the digital games at least 10% lower than their physical versions. the more the better but at least 10% is a start.
I prefer physical, unless it's a game I know 100% I'm going to keep for a long, long time. I also hate how digital costs about the same as physical with no incentive, outside maybe a background (yea, right), or something else no one cares about. If digital was cheaper I'd be more inclined to buy into it.
On a side note, I'm reading the chart, and according to N4G The Division is "trash" yet is #8 of 20 on the top selling games of 2016.
Physical over Digital nuff said
Yes I agree, but how much of this has to do with mobile?
Gaming is very, very, VERY DIVERSE, I mean..."game market" no longer is just talking about consoles and PC.
I think, like film and television, we need data that is tailored to the exact market, not lumping info from SEVERAL different markets to try to spin an article or agenda, narrative etc.
A televisions show can be a film. A film can be turned into a show etc, a mobile game on the other hand can't be put on console as "AAA", it will need to have an overhaul that is so major that it basically won't be the same game that was on mobile.
So if we understand that film and television have different data to represent certain trends, why is it we are lumping together mobile and console/PC gaming as if its all ONE thing?
If we are going to call the "game market" everything lumped into one, we might as well put film into one thing with "Youtube, web series, Netflix, Hulu, cable, theater" etc.
That data doesn't tell you where blockbuster films is going to go because of the data from web content...
Soooooo why would data regarding mobile content tell us any thing about the future of console and PC content?
Give some data on console gaming, PC gaming, mobile gaming SEPARATE please.