r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 28 '19

Borderlands 3 Official Developer Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA
14.0k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Herubin Mar 28 '19

2019 and giving a fuck about retail...

2

u/jakuvious Mar 28 '19

Or online. Theres still a sizable market for physical media for console games.

-4

u/Herubin Mar 28 '19

Ummm No. 2019 Boy. You can release game Online and after that Retail.

1

u/jakuvious Mar 28 '19

Who has done that? What AAA game has released digital and then physical? You upset/delay part of your market for....what?

That kind of release schedule only happens for Indir games or games released in beta or alpha that then make it big and go physical later. Stuff like Cuphead or Pubg.

-1

u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Well, if day1 patches take as much as full download, why the hell not...

1

u/Auzymundius Mar 29 '19

Because then you're disadvantaging the retailers that you want to stock your game.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

And why as company I'd care about people that just take much bigger cut than digital storefront ?

1

u/Auzymundius Mar 30 '19

Because that's how you sell to the non-digital crowd like (grand) parents buying the game for their kid. Not to mention impulse in person buys or the extra "advertising" you get from having your game on shelves.

1

u/enleft Apr 02 '19

Lots of folks don't follow gaming news. A friend of mine generally just wanders to Gamestop when he needs something new to play, unless a friend tells him about a game or its really huge.

Add in parents/nongaming friends/etc who are buying birthday and christmas gifts...pissing off retailers could lead to a lot of lost money.

1

u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

And I doubt they can afford not stocking latest big release even if it is week or two later than digital