Physical games are still the industry mainstay, but consumer preferences are shifting. Over one-third of game purchasers who bought a game in the past three months say they'd prefer to purchase a digital game over a physical video game, up 10 percentage points from just a year ago.
Online Gaming 2012 — The Impact of Digital is this year's edition of our much-anticipated report on the rapidly evolving world of online gaming. Now with yearly trend information, it goes beyond the basics of online gaming incidence and time and money spent. It's the industry's one-stop source for detail on how and why consumers are interacting with digital games and how the increasing popularity of mobile gaming and digital downloads affects other retail sales channels.
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Ill be doing a lot of my purchases online with the 3ds. The wiiu not so much
What's P3M?
another chart that doesnt mean anything
Same time/same price always going to be physical. I like actually feeling like I own it.
I love Steam, but there is a reason I won't pay more than $5 for any digital title on there.
Just depends, I guess. If a game is too rare to find or its the only option, I'll go for digital.
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