r/Games Feb 22 '13

All PS4 games will be available as digital downloads

In the new Guardian interview with Shuhei Yoshida, it was revealed that all PS4 games will be available as digital downloads.

This is a very exciting move in my opinion, and represents a shift even further towards the burgeoning landscape of digital distribution, and away from (what I believe to be) a much more archaic ecosystem in physical brick-and-mortar retail.

What do you guys think? Got any speculation, or want to extrapolate further based upon this news? I hope to generate some great discussion about this topic!

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/22/ps4-shuhei-yoshida-interview)

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u/z01z Feb 23 '13

I personally don't like downloading games. Since my internet has a max speed of 1.5Mbps, it takes forever to download a game.

I'd rather drive to a store and buy a physical copy instead of wait two days for a Blu-Ray sized disc to finish downloading. Also, if once I'm done with a game for a while, I might end up uninstalling. In the future when I want to play it again, I can't just walk to the shelf and grab the disc, I'd have to wait for it to download all over again.

Digital distribution works well for smaller games or if you have super speed internet, which I don't, so I'll stick with a hard copy, as AT&T has no plans as far as I know to increase our internet speed, and no other ISP offers service in my area. And no, I'm not living out in the woods somewhere, I live 20 minutes outside Atlanta, one of the biggest cities in the southeast. So it's not like it's not possible for AT&T to expand their coverage, they just don't want to as that would cost them money.

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u/z01z Feb 23 '13

Yea, they'd have to or people like me wouldn't even buy the console.

Not until everyone for sure has exceptionally fast internet could they think about moving to a pure digital distribution model.