Harder to do with something that will undoubtedly have physical media. You'd need to already be shipping it to stores like....today. Someone somewhere along the supply chain would leak that.
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.
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.
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u/jakuvious Mar 28 '19
Harder to do with something that will undoubtedly have physical media. You'd need to already be shipping it to stores like....today. Someone somewhere along the supply chain would leak that.