[QUOTE="PC_Otter"] If you get out to the common people playing games on consoles that direct download is to there benefit, people would consider it more heavily. Depending on how fast your internet connection, it's faster and cheaper to just DD a game than drive to a store if the game isn't too large (like over 5 GB). "Why waste time and gas driving to the store when you can directly download a game. While you download, you can spend time doing something else?" "Why pay more, when the DD game costs you less, and comes with digital instructions, support, etc?" "Why deal with the idiot at the game store when you have a pretty good idea of what you are doing?" "Why fumble with storing and finding physical discs, when the game is already there on your system's hard drive?" I'm going to do a test to see how long it takes me to download Dead Space (7700 MB in size) over Steam on my 12 MBit connection. It's 3:39 PM Central right now.MrmccormoI'm fully aware of the inherent advantages of DD. I hope you're aware of the overwhelming approval of physical media for the majority of people, as is evidenced by the sales of physical games and physical movies (physical CD music has, however, taken a sharp drop, though vinyl sales have greatly increased). The masses aren't going to switch over to digital-only for quite a number of years. I will admit to sticking to mostly physical media for my PC games, but DD always looks very good in my eyes especially when I have a tough time finding a game on physical media without having to resort to Amazon. The original FEAR is very difficult to find, and I had to get it off of Direct 2 Drive. Bear in mind this was before it was available on Steam.
Nintendo: Physical media is here to stay
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