Ea Boss: Digital Distribution Still Destroy Boxed Versions of Games

Sometimes it is simply easier to buy the game in the store and insert the disk into the drive than with a slow internet connection to download large amounts of data. 

Executive Director of the game studio Electronic Arts, John Riccitello, in an interview with the magazine Industry Gamers comment on how it will develop in the future of games distribution. According to him this year already exceeds the retail digital distribution (note: free sales in stores). Digital distribution has many advantages, such as the player does not have to worry about whether or miss out any important updates.The advantage is that the game in the event of interest immediately download to your PC. It eliminates tedious trip to the store somewhere, where (as is customary in our country) are most likely to encounter sour tinged with sellers and most importantly, the unsuspecting game sometimes pay lower prices. Sure, taxes for all this is that the game will not get a printed manual and a box, but after a while anyway commit. The boxed versions of games under him disappear in the foreseeable future, although their market share will be a long slow decline. Physical media simply has not in some situations, completely replaced. ”Sometimes it’s easier to buy the game in the store and insert the disk into the drive than with a slow internet connection to download large amounts of data” said the head of EA. Large chain of stores aimed at video games in the near future, do not worry, just …