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physical discs are useful for people with always-on-but-still-painfully-slow internet, and it also was a way for MS to compromise and not piss off all the physi

by mxxx 13y ago

physical discs are useful for people with always-on-but-still-painfully-slow internet, and it also was a way for MS to compromise and not piss off all the physical disc retailers, who happen to be the same people who will retail the console itself.

chaostheory 13y ago
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
ekianjo 13y ago
Yeah, but they could have sold their console with online retail only, a la Amazon. That would have been really innovative.
- lotso 13y ago
  >That would have been really innovative. And a great way to lose out on billions of sales.
  - ekianjo 13y ago
    Ask Amazon how it turned out for them with the Kindle. Sold only online. No retailers. They crushed all the other physical ebook-readers re-sellers.
    - Spytap 13y ago
      Ask Australia if they'd like to download one game a month and max out the allowed data on their internet connection. Data caps are still common, and for every marketplace that has them, a digital-only marketplace is DOA.
    - lotso 13y ago
      A sample size of 1 is not relevant.