[quote name='friedram']I'm just a Project Manager who happens to have being a PC & 360 gamer as my primary hobbies. I guess I don't really care about DLC pricing that much- if I want it bad enough, I buy it- if I think it's overpriced, I.E. BRAID, then I know that 100,000 folks out there are already complaining about it- someday I'll either pony up the cash or it will come down in price. My backlog is huge, so meh.
DLC is awesome- next generation is going to be great for the consoles, no media. That's going to be the best- no more switching disks.[/quote]
I think with the proliferation of Broadband and DLC as a viable business model we will start to see more games being offered in FULL over DLC but I doubt the age of media is gonna end anytime soon in the gaming community... First of all there is still a market out there for collector's edition of games [like 10 games in the last 2 months have collector's editions out] so of course there will be a market for those... Also people like to have a PHYSICAL GAME/CASE in their possession when purchasing items which is one of the reasons why those microtransaction game cards [1600/4000/1month/3month/12month/XBLA Games] are actually selling well when people could just put credit card info on their console and pay relatively the same price [other reason is that they can pay with cash or store credit]. Also PHYSICAL media has RESALE value... That is probably the biggest reason why we won't see DLC taking over the gaming market anytime soon... Gamestop's business is RUN on USED game sales...
A good example of this is PC Games... As most of the market has shown people in general have slid over to the casual gaming side and as such the PC Market is full of casual games, MOST of which are downloadable for free or a small fee similar to that of DLC. Gamestop's predecessors in the past used to sell USED PC Games but now is only selling used console games and most of the Gamestops hardly even have a space for NEW PC Games.
A little off topic but is the PC Market dead? Well for gaming I believe its slowly dying... The aspects that made PC Gaming king of the hill are slowly being eaten away by consoles... PCs at first were the only ones able to do TRUE Multiplayer over phone modems/LANs. PS2 / Xbox / DC slowly took that title away. PCs used to corner the market on the BEST FPS games and multiplayer FPS Scenarios (CounterStrike / UT / etc.) now Consoles are reigning supreme (Halo / Gears of War / CoD4 / Socom). PCs are still big in the CASUAL Gamer aspect just because everyone has access to a PC either at work and/or at home. But the Nintendo Wii is starting to take a big chunk of that customer base with the release of all the family friendly games they are releasing that are actually selling. PCs still have a little fight in them as they still are the heavy hitters in the graphics department [if you can afford the expensive gear] and they are also still the reigning kings in RTS and MMORPGs without a doubt... Many consoles of have tried to get some market share in these categories but I have yet to see one truly work. In my opinion the only way they could actually get a market share good enough is if Microsoft AND/OR Sony struck up a deal with Activision/Blizzard... They control BOTH of these game genres and also have a strong presense already in console games.
Current generation consoles and probably next generation consoles will probably be the same as it is... Disc + Optional DLC... While in the next gen we still start to be INFUSED with TONS of DLC to get us to accept a FULL DLC console in the generation after...
So back on target with the topic.... Has anyone seen a AC6 Bundle in BB yet?