Comments on: CyberConnect2 CEO says the shift from physical to digital-only games is “nothing but a positive thing” for developers

By: OmegaUltima

OmegaUltima — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:37:01 +0000

Then he is a fool.

By: Suguru

Suguru — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:55:07 +0000

Sooooo… If YOU’RE stripping me of the physical option, what stops me from getting the game digitally from a certain girl with a spoon? You’re too daft to be talking about it mate.

By: MicaelHD

MicaelHD — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:50:55 +0000

And my physical copy of Fuga 3 just arrived last month! I sure hope this franchise is just a trilogy because now I really don't want to buy anymore games from them after what they said.

By: Todd G.

Todd G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:45:09 +0000

Never got into this series, now I’m sure I never will after seeing this crap on my feed. Nothing but a positive thing my ass. Sony can go pound and and so can this guy.

By: Taylor B

Taylor B — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:15:56 +0000

In reply to John Beveryman. I'm right there with you. My partner and I LOVE .dot//hack and had planned on buying any form of Collector's Edition they cook up for Z.E.R.O, but now all we can "buy" are digital licenses. Boy have times changed.

By: dePaige22

dePaige22 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:40:42 +0000

He uses Sqaure and Capcom’s skewed results to justify it lol. Of course PC is full digital. Physical releases also help people discover these games. The casual market doesnt follow along for every game release so now all your extra profits will be spent trying to get front and center in a digital store alongside all the other slop that makes discoverability impossible. Wonder why all these companies still make download codes that go to retail?!? If they want larger margins it means skipper the middleman, but the middleman is providing value and these companies know it – GTA 6 codes arent being put into a case and shipped around the world because it’s economical. Small studios will be crushed. If he thinks swapping a disc one time to install the game is inconvenient then what about everyone who doesnt have internet capable of downloading hundreds of gigabytes a day? Why would i pay full price for a rental. With digital there’s no reason for me to buy a game (especially niche like theirs) at full price at launch just to get a copy. The digital version will be there when I’m ready (hopefully) and probably on sale. This strategy will backfire so hard for them (it’ll probably work fine for larger studios) and if their only justification is “bigger bonuses” then I really don’t care if they go under. I swear these people cant see more than 3 months in the future. –and I also think it’s comical as hell that he thinks hardcore fans are going to buy physical items when theyre too cheap to make a disc. If it’s inconvenient to put a disc in and take up space why would I want a large item that literally just sits there. This cherry picking of gaming desires results in such a small pool of people.

By: Merishtar20

Merishtar20 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:49:13 +0000

Funny that the savings doesn’t trickle down to the consumer. Yeah, you’ll save money by not making physical copies, but gleefully tack on $20 more to the average for a game requiring a DLC later that you pay more for for the full experience.

By: Uzuma555

Uzuma555 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:28:29 +0000

Talking about SqEx and Capcom that 90% of their sales is digital while counting everything sold against PS/Xbox physical releases is little bit wrong.
(PC doesn’t have physical games so it is 100% digital, so all copies are just adding to digital percentage. And if they are counting the DLC and other digital only stuff then yes it’s 90:10 but if they would just look only at things with physical release compare it to digital then the percentage would be different, not to mention that if you look for some of those games they are sold out without additional printing and as such all subsequent sales are digital only)

Well unfortunately everyone is talking about benefits for developers and so on. But noone is talking about issues for end customer. Like download times, service outages, ownership, etc.

By: Goddammnit

Goddammnit — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:14:29 +0000

Well of course it's easier for developers. There's a lot of things that's easier on developers, like using AI. Doesn't mean we should do it

By: a

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:37 +0000

Welp, never giving them money again 🙂

By: John Beveryman

John Beveryman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:34:52 +0000

Coming from a company that had one of THE coolest physical releases of my youth in the .Hack games, that hurts.

I was obsessed with the og .hack series, the box art lined up to make a picture, it had an extra OVA in each box that had secret codes to unlock secret level word combinations which often contained lore from the //Sign anime.

They did some of the coolest physical releases i ever got my hands on, sad to see that even they’ve turned towards people not owning their stuff.