EA: digital sales will eventually overtake boxed games
"There will come a point, whether it is two or three years from now, when we say 'we are doing more in digital media now than we are in physical media,' and it's clearly ... not far away," Moore said.
Reuters points out that EA's expected packaged goods revenue for the fiscal year ending March 2013 is $2.6 billion, with digital products expected to bring in $1.7 billion, while its digital revenue increased by 55 percent in the first quarter of that year.
Moore insisted that boxed media will stick around for a while, saying "we will never abandon physical media. As long as the consumer wants to buy something on a disc, we will be there to offer it."
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/362521/ea-digital-sales-will-eventually-overtake-boxed-games/
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yayPosted:
Iglesias Digital products take in more memory, especially on the 360..
They do. I have like, 6 full games. I wish I could just copy my digital games onto individual disks but I don't know how :/
EmazedPosted:
PermanentEmazing-LightsMinecartUSA_Sports Well they might be losing a lot of money by doing this.
Yeah they probably will.
There are losing 0.9 billion dollars.
Thats alot of money to be losing
Yeah it is but I guess it will be good for us.
CearnsyPosted:
Emazing-LightsMinecartUSA_Sports Well they might be losing a lot of money by doing this.
Yeah they probably will.
There are losing 0.9 billion dollars.
Thats alot of money to be losing
BuckyBuckedPosted:
They are gonna make Gamefly Blockbuster so forth to shut down. I rather have digital versions, So I can re-download them when ever I want. NO MORE SCRATCHED DISCS.
EmazedPosted:
MinecartUSA_Sports Well they might be losing a lot of money by doing this.
Yeah they probably will.
There are losing 0.9 billion dollars.
Third_EyePosted:
The thing is, consoles will have to come with larger, sh*t, WAY larger HDDs. I know as technology advances, the sizes increase, but there's like no HDD for a Xbox that can support a whole game+saves+DLC along with whatever else you generally need on your HDD to play any game. The PS3 has some pretty big HDD sizes so it may last longer than the Xbox will with digital games, but not THAT much longer.
PeetzuhPosted:
USA_Sports Well they might be losing a lot of money by doing this.
Yeah they probably will.
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