Anyone have insights on how physical copies totally died out on the PC market, but are still going strong on Console? I remember buying civ 5 on physical disc back in middle school, and even then the guy at GameStop was all surprised to be selling a hard copy of a PC game.all this time later, and you can still buy pretty much Amy major game on hard disc for consoles. Why?
PC physical copies hasn’t totally died. You can still buy boxed editions and collectors editions for certain games.
And digital copies for consoles is quite popular too now. In fact, for many less popular games, not physical version is available.
so, not sure your observations universal.
regardless though, I’d guess it’s because the console market has to contend with the fact that many console owners won’t have internet on their consoles.