This is interesting and frightening at the same time. The future figure make me a little sad, I like me some physical things.

Nice Fatboy Slim track, is it the year 2001 again?

But seriously, aside from like 2 games, all the games I bought on the PC have been digital through Steam for like the last 4 years.

The only Telltale game I own was bought at a Best Buy.

Nah. CDs will still be known about in 2030. Just not used.

Isn't this whole video just a big way of saying "digital content is priced WAY too high"? How is this supposed to get consumers to like digital content when they're laying out the fact that publishers make 2-3x as much money on a digital release than a physical release?

Telltale is outstanding. A single 4+ hour game for less than 7 bucks.

They had me at "Sam..."

@DeusPayne
Because publishers still need physical outlets for a large portion of their sales, if they undercut the stores via the digital marketplace then the stores would respond by simply not selling the publishers products.

Also: Publishers love money, they are not really going to fight a policy that makes them more money per sale.

It is worth noting that many games distributed only via online marketplaces cost anywhere from $10-40 less than their online+store equivalents, and that many of the digital marketplaces have frequent, and often ludicrous sales.

I got New Vegas for $25 only two months after its release. Even now, another two months later I don't think there is a retail store within 200 kilometers of me that has knocked it down that far.

@Scissors
"I will still buy cd's after 2015, Lot's of people still buy Vinyl so that assumption is false because CD's don't really need to evolve the average length of an album is 30-55 minutes and the sound quality on them is great."

Your assumption is false. The reason people still buy vinyl is because its an analog recording that has a near 1:1 transcription of the actual sound waves created by the recording to a physical medium. Vinyl is the closest you can get to being inside the recording studio. That has value. On the other hand you have 8-tracs, compact cassettes, minidiscs. All of these formats died because they were portable formats that did not offer the portability or quality of whatever came after them.

CDs are digital, they are not a perfect or near perfect transcription of audio. I can fit nearly 70 full length CDs, completely uncompressed on to a 6 year old iPod that is half the size of the smallest portable CD player you can find. Hell, I can fit 5 CDs onto a flash card so small you could inhale it accidentally. Their time is up, they have nothing left to offer.

"And in 2029 no one under 30 will know what a CD is, How would that happen? what is everyone's memory going to get zapped and are all CDS going evaporate into thin air. I still have college teachers who show video's on VHS. "

If there was an easy way to convert VHS over to a digital format then we'd see a whole lot less of them. CDs are already in a digital format though, getting them onto a smaller storage medium is a matter of pressing a button. I finished ripping my last CD to my hard drive 4 years ago.

@ANeM

good points Vinyl is still around cause it has value, and VHS still exist for teacher videos because most of those companies do not exist anymore.

What I was trying to get at was that although Digital is great and may someday eclipse physical media there will always be a place for physical media. People like special edition box sets, and buying things on impulse.

I personally still buy physical copies of CDs I like Digipacks with bundled DVDs/Blurays, I enjoy flipping through the booklets, and I know I'm not alone in this many people feel the same way as I do. A large chunk of the market that prefers digital media is young and somewhat experienced with technology. Although buying digital media is incredibly simple some people cannot get a grasp on it.

Saying that after the next 4 years CDs will cease of being sold, would alienate a large audience of people who do not own computers or know how to purchase digital goods. For instance my Mother is constantly struggling with technology and usually has me fix minor things like the T.V being set to the wrong channel, and to use teachers as an example again it is not uncommon for a teacher to ask students for simple technical advice. CDs will probably disappear one day and be replaced by some other physical media but it will not happen entirely in the next 4 years not while a physical alternative hasn't been announced (atleast to my knowledge their hasn't).


I'm not trying to say I love CDs or anything like that, but they aren't as archaic as 8-tracs and tapes, most people are happy with 80 Minutes (40-60 Minutes is ideal for an album) and the sound quality you can still get from a CD, It's impressive how well Cds have held up they are almost 30 years old, maybe they aren't ideal but they still work fine.

I usually upload a a new Cd's Mp3's onto my MP3 player and either shelf the CD or stick in my car stereo, because CDs are easier to manage in a car than an Mp3 player (for me atleast I keep my cd holder in a specific order so I know where all the cd's are so I can change Cd's without looking, it's much safer than scrolling through my MP3 players library).

The PSP go was the first all digital gaming system and it failed miserably, the general consensus from the public was that they didn't want to switch to all digital. I know the PSPgo also failed due to high price, not having the full PSP library of games, and alienating any PSP owner from upgrading because their UMDs could not be transferred, but the main reason it did not succed was cause it was all digital from an audience that was accustomed to physical. iPhones are successful for digital games because they were digital from the beginning and the audience already knows how to use technology if they are going to invest into a smartphone.

I support digital media, and If i had a computer that could run games I would use Steam to get a majority of my games because Steam is ridiculously cheap, I was more trying to point out that the information in the video didn't seem completely accurate, and that people like buying physical things and that will never go away like some are claiming it will (at least not in our lifetime), We live in a Country of Consumerism we like being stuff, preferably physical things we can hold in our hands, what more do I have to say?

I'm sorry Telltale, but I'm gonna stick with my physical copies. I never trusted DLC and I sure as hell won't be starting now.

I do love their option of both digital and hard copies; you can download a game right away (if your internet connection doesn't suck balls) while the disc is on its way. Of course I find this ok since I still get a physical copy, if I didn't I'd be less enthusiastic about it.