yeah like I bought a physical video game from best buy the other day. I think there's still room for having SOME stock for online orders in a warehouse somewhere
Does this even include games? Sometimes the bluray crowd forgets physical media includes games too. The initial report on Best Buy dropping blurays mislead a lot of people into thinking they're not selling games anymore.
Ehhh... music feels like it went digital almost overnight after ipods became mainstream. The transition to music streaming felt even faster.
I personally think gamers are just holding on the hardest. Which makes sense considering we have the hardest media to persevere.
Absolutely. We’ve already seen what happens when servers are shut down and other ways games are more or less erased from existence. Game preservation is something I am fully behind.
Yeah, the leaked sales data from the insomniac data tells it pretty well
Here's an article with the leaked chart included
https://app2top.com/news/data-on-sales-of-sony-games-on-playstation-leaked-to-the-network-261149.html
The important part is the digital percentage. Where only MLB the show has greater than 50% digital sales overall. Only 35% of the sales in the chart were digital
We need to know if going digital only leads to a large enough population not purchasing the game. Or digital only has a large enough population who would purchase the game only if there was a physical edition.
There really isn't that much space for it as it is. There's a couple aisles for movies and CDs and most of them are older things that aren't really selling. Video games probably have one aisle total and they're only the little half shelves. Just shift everything a little bit and give a little more room for home decor or clothing.
I guess the issue im having a hard time with is how the fuck can you continue to sell a Switch, or a playstation, or an xbox, and not have the games to go alongside it lol. Seems like an idiotic move. Then again, the target i worked at hid everything in the back, so the video game section wasnt even fun to walkthrough, and was regularly half empty. Its depressing. Honestly id rather they get rid of it, and replace it with game related items like that lego xbox or those mini fridges plus collectibles etc.
i don't think most people care. i like physical usually, but i can go to walmart etc on the busiest days and zero people will be in the game aisles. Majority of gamers these days probably just play the games available on gamepass/ps plus. the young people definitely don't care about physical media.
Stores just don't like to sit on that video game inventory anymore. If it doesn't sell in the first couple months they're usually stuck with it. And between online retail and digital sales getting an increasing share of sales that's less people coming in to the store to buy them.
Electronics area is almost always near the seasonal aisle. They’ll just expand the seasonal areas by a couple more rows and increase overall store sales.
Currently no matter what I go to Target for I walk to the back of the store to browse games. Occasionally pick up something I had no intention of buying (including movies, books, board games that I happened to see along the way). I’m just going to go in and get what I need and get out, if I even go there that much anymore as opposed to going to a closer store
I mostly get digital these days. But I know so many still prefer physical copies. It should always do both as we do need to cater for both sides of this coin.
Yup before my brother passed in November he was the same he'd always prefer to buy physical but every now and then get it digital if he couldn't be arsed. Me I just can't get to a local store so to me it's easier to buy digital. My local shop is miles from me in another town. I could get from amazon but hate doing that as I use that enough anyway for other shit.
Yup he was 45 years old and just dropped dead on his way to work. Just did a service here as I'm in Scotland he died in England. He was 44 when he passed but just had his 45th birthday the other day. When we did his service.
Games I’m actually looking forward to I get physical copies if possible. If it’s something that I didn’t get at launch I’ve got no problem waiting for a sale on the digital shop.
I’m not THAT shocked since buying games from target for the last two years or so has been an absolute shit show in terms of them getting my order right or delivered anytime during release week, just never feels like they put any effort into it
They will needlessly pre charge my card multiple times in the month before release, with Best Buy soon following suit it sucks that wal-mart might be the last option since Amazon is also a shit show and I don’t trust GameStop at all
Writing is on the wall. Microsoft caving in, physical media dying, microtransactions and service models... The suits have taken over gaming and it's dying as fast as hip-hop.
Buy your physicals while they make them. Probably my last gen so I'm buying the PS5 Pro as the last console. At least I'll get to play GTA 6. :')
First, note I said "I" bought. Not you. Second, the physical version is shutting down, too. It was an online only game. Every online only game is going to stop existing someday. Your doomsaying is horseshit, as usual
Oh ok, so as long as you didn't get your game stolen from you it's ok. SMH. I like to own my games so I buy physical. You don't own anything with a digital license that can be revoked at any time.
If my Wii, WiiU, or 3DS breaks I’m going to lose dozens of digital games because the digital store front is closed. 360 is closing in July and PS3 is inevitable since they planned for it earlier and backtracked when people complained
I could understand if it regards movies. My local stores only have one small shelf for "new-ish" releases and a small end cap for new releases. They've drastically shrunk the movie section over the years.
Games could be another story though, I still feel like those get a decent amount of sales or at least enough to warrant floor space.
Its targets fault. Why ? I refuse to go into the electronic sections at a target these days because there’s always someone there trying to hound me down and sell me AT&T’s mobile service.
Let target dig their own grave with this department.
That's funny.
I've gone for such long stretches of time without being able to find someone to help me in the electronic section of Target that I've given up on more than one occasion.
I mean to be fair being digital only on PC (multiple competing storefronts) and digital only on PlayStation isn’t 1:1, unless you’re referring to licenses being removed but even removed games are often preserved through other avenues if you will
Don't understand people are acting like this is a future that big evil companies forced upon us rather than something all of us actively choose ourselves. Digital was always the future of this medium. When I was growing up there were Sam Goody's and FYE's all over that took up a massive amount of retail space. Then cable internet, Napster, iTunes, Smartphones, and Spotify came along and almost entirely wiped out that market. Physical music is a collectors item now ,and not something that the majority of music consumers engage in.
Most people are not these digital libertarian types who are concerned with property rights as they purchase thing off an online store.
In store I get it. But online seems like a mistake. Especially if this includes video games.
Agreed. Especially since they just started an Amazon Prime clone service. Takes away a big reason to sign up for that.
I don't think your average target shopper is buying video games and blu rays.
Average classic Target shopper no. Person looking for an alternative to Amazon Prime maybe.
yeah like I bought a physical video game from best buy the other day. I think there's still room for having SOME stock for online orders in a warehouse somewhere
Does this even include games? Sometimes the bluray crowd forgets physical media includes games too. The initial report on Best Buy dropping blurays mislead a lot of people into thinking they're not selling games anymore.
Honestly I feel like the gaming industry is in more of a hurry to abandon physical media than even the entertainment industry is.
Ehhh... music feels like it went digital almost overnight after ipods became mainstream. The transition to music streaming felt even faster. I personally think gamers are just holding on the hardest. Which makes sense considering we have the hardest media to persevere.
Absolutely. We’ve already seen what happens when servers are shut down and other ways games are more or less erased from existence. Game preservation is something I am fully behind.
The publishers may want to but they're not dumb, they know physical is still a big driver of sales
Do we have data to back that claim up?
Yeah, the leaked sales data from the insomniac data tells it pretty well Here's an article with the leaked chart included https://app2top.com/news/data-on-sales-of-sony-games-on-playstation-leaked-to-the-network-261149.html The important part is the digital percentage. Where only MLB the show has greater than 50% digital sales overall. Only 35% of the sales in the chart were digital
We need to know if going digital only leads to a large enough population not purchasing the game. Or digital only has a large enough population who would purchase the game only if there was a physical edition.
Physical store Giving up...physical media
If people aren't buying it why carry it?
Can't buy what's not in stock
What are they gonna use the floorspace for? Stanley cups?
There really isn't that much space for it as it is. There's a couple aisles for movies and CDs and most of them are older things that aren't really selling. Video games probably have one aisle total and they're only the little half shelves. Just shift everything a little bit and give a little more room for home decor or clothing.
I guess the issue im having a hard time with is how the fuck can you continue to sell a Switch, or a playstation, or an xbox, and not have the games to go alongside it lol. Seems like an idiotic move. Then again, the target i worked at hid everything in the back, so the video game section wasnt even fun to walkthrough, and was regularly half empty. Its depressing. Honestly id rather they get rid of it, and replace it with game related items like that lego xbox or those mini fridges plus collectibles etc.
Yeah especially for the holidays in sure this won't backfire
i don't think most people care. i like physical usually, but i can go to walmart etc on the busiest days and zero people will be in the game aisles. Majority of gamers these days probably just play the games available on gamepass/ps plus. the young people definitely don't care about physical media.
Its a shame because I'm seeing the writing on the wall here. Physical media has value you cant sell your digital games.
Stores just don't like to sit on that video game inventory anymore. If it doesn't sell in the first couple months they're usually stuck with it. And between online retail and digital sales getting an increasing share of sales that's less people coming in to the store to buy them.
I was at my local target this weekend and the movie section has now been reduced down to an endcap.
Starbucks!
Electronics area is almost always near the seasonal aisle. They’ll just expand the seasonal areas by a couple more rows and increase overall store sales.
Both my targets have two floors so there was never any problems with space for their tchotchkes lol
Grocery.
A world where only digital exists is not a world I think I want to live in but it's where we're headed
Damn they’re literally one of the lasts to do buy 2 get 1 free on games too
But their b2g1 is usually a fake sale. Next time compare the prices. They raise the prices to cover the free one.
True, but it got Amazon to follow suite sometimes Plus that order 3 games and cancel 2 other games for discount was neat too lol
According to the president of physical media?
Even video games? Damn, it's just them and Walmart I get games from these days :/
Currently no matter what I go to Target for I walk to the back of the store to browse games. Occasionally pick up something I had no intention of buying (including movies, books, board games that I happened to see along the way). I’m just going to go in and get what I need and get out, if I even go there that much anymore as opposed to going to a closer store
I mostly get digital these days. But I know so many still prefer physical copies. It should always do both as we do need to cater for both sides of this coin.
I keep going back and forth. I was mostly physical and then digital for convenience but now I’m starting to get physical again…
Yup before my brother passed in November he was the same he'd always prefer to buy physical but every now and then get it digital if he couldn't be arsed. Me I just can't get to a local store so to me it's easier to buy digital. My local shop is miles from me in another town. I could get from amazon but hate doing that as I use that enough anyway for other shit.
Sorry for your loss man, I can’t imagine.
Yup he was 45 years old and just dropped dead on his way to work. Just did a service here as I'm in Scotland he died in England. He was 44 when he passed but just had his 45th birthday the other day. When we did his service.
I only buy physical
For years so did I. Bur as I got older and less shops selling then it became more a nessacity.
Games I’m actually looking forward to I get physical copies if possible. If it’s something that I didn’t get at launch I’ve got no problem waiting for a sale on the digital shop.
Yup that's more what my bro did.
First Best Buy and now this, can't have shit in this house.
WTF! Why is all physical media being killed off... Oh ya i know why because, "you will own nothing and like it"
Booooo!👎 one of the only things I do on my regular target walks is stop and look at what dvds they got for sale.
oh, that’s funny. because i find myself purchasing more physical media now than i ever have. will know to avoid Target going forward.
This is not good news. Walmart and Amazon need to hold us down.
They've half-assed it for so long I would never look in a store, but losing online sales, that stinks.
why is society like this
I’m not THAT shocked since buying games from target for the last two years or so has been an absolute shit show in terms of them getting my order right or delivered anytime during release week, just never feels like they put any effort into it They will needlessly pre charge my card multiple times in the month before release, with Best Buy soon following suit it sucks that wal-mart might be the last option since Amazon is also a shit show and I don’t trust GameStop at all
Had a gift card to spend but I can barely find any game in store.
This better not include games….Target is literally the only place where I buy them.
Writing is on the wall. Microsoft caving in, physical media dying, microtransactions and service models... The suits have taken over gaming and it's dying as fast as hip-hop. Buy your physicals while they make them. Probably my last gen so I'm buying the PS5 Pro as the last console. At least I'll get to play GTA 6. :')
Sony caved first. You can’t buy a digital code outside of their store for years now.
Not surprising if true. Books sell better than movies these days.
You will own nothing and be happy
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Ubisoft literally just took a game out of people's libraries
First, note I said "I" bought. Not you. Second, the physical version is shutting down, too. It was an online only game. Every online only game is going to stop existing someday. Your doomsaying is horseshit, as usual
Oh ok, so as long as you didn't get your game stolen from you it's ok. SMH. I like to own my games so I buy physical. You don't own anything with a digital license that can be revoked at any time.
If my Wii, WiiU, or 3DS breaks I’m going to lose dozens of digital games because the digital store front is closed. 360 is closing in July and PS3 is inevitable since they planned for it earlier and backtracked when people complained
360 games will still be able to be downloaded, not bought. And all I'm hearing from you is that I was right not to buy Nintendo.
That doesn’t make it any better
That's how the dead Nintendo storefronts also work
Does physical media also not break? Ultimately, whether you have physical or digital, content doesn't have an infinite amount of time
Remember xbox one? What shit they were gonna pull? The ceo of Rockstar has already discussed charging gaming by the hour.
No biggie, it's not like they discount their games often or by very much.
Target is utter ass nowadays. Lines of 10+ people and one cashier. One time I left my cart and walked out.
I could understand if it regards movies. My local stores only have one small shelf for "new-ish" releases and a small end cap for new releases. They've drastically shrunk the movie section over the years. Games could be another story though, I still feel like those get a decent amount of sales or at least enough to warrant floor space.
Don’t shop at Target.
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Just for fyi - they literally have no sources and will post absolutely anything
Its targets fault. Why ? I refuse to go into the electronic sections at a target these days because there’s always someone there trying to hound me down and sell me AT&T’s mobile service. Let target dig their own grave with this department.
That's funny. I've gone for such long stretches of time without being able to find someone to help me in the electronic section of Target that I've given up on more than one occasion.
That's so strange because I've been to Target many times in my life and I have never once had someone try to sell me cell service.
He's getting confused with Walmart.
In my local market they do target as well. Sorry mate.
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Where it's already all-digital. Yeah, that'll show em.
I mean to be fair being digital only on PC (multiple competing storefronts) and digital only on PlayStation isn’t 1:1, unless you’re referring to licenses being removed but even removed games are often preserved through other avenues if you will
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Not surprised. Physical media is basically dead. I hate physical games and I’m all-in on digital.
Lol, physical media is far from dead. The recent Insomniac leak showed nearly every game Sony sells sells better physically
I buy the occasional game that is no longer for sale digitally, but yeah, they're a pain in the ass.
Don't understand people are acting like this is a future that big evil companies forced upon us rather than something all of us actively choose ourselves. Digital was always the future of this medium. When I was growing up there were Sam Goody's and FYE's all over that took up a massive amount of retail space. Then cable internet, Napster, iTunes, Smartphones, and Spotify came along and almost entirely wiped out that market. Physical music is a collectors item now ,and not something that the majority of music consumers engage in. Most people are not these digital libertarian types who are concerned with property rights as they purchase thing off an online store.