Digital Gaming and DLC up 33% in the US, Europe

Sounds right to me. Within the past year, I've bought probably over twenty smaller games from Steam, GOG and the Humble Bundles (usually during some kind of sale - those sales are awesome). I've bought probably four or five SNES and N64 games; used obviously. I don't think I've bought a new game from retail within the last year.

I prefer physical copies of the things I buy, but only a few indie games make it into retail stores. Those are what I'm interested in lately. They have fresh ideas and are so much cheaper than big releases (money is tight). Even though I feel like I've bought a ton of games this year, I imagine I spent less than the cost of two full price retail games. Plus, with Steam and GOG, I feel like I'll be able to play my games for many years into the future, even if I my hardware changes. With consoles, you have to keep your old things around and hope they don't die. Nintendo's consoles and a lot of older consoles seem like they can survive a nuclear apocalypse, but my Xbox 360 is toast already. And if my house gets sucked into a black hole while I'm out buying groceries, I still have my Steam and GOG games. I buy a new computer and then I can download everything again. That's nice.

It makes me a little sad that my latest game purchases aren't sitting on display on a shelf, but the pros of digital are worth it for me.

( Edited 29.03.2013 20:01 by TAG )

Am branching into eShop releases, short and sweet games that don't consume too much time. Also go for used games whenever I can, or on sale at least. I don't think I've bought a full price retail release in a while - Skyward Sword excluded lol.

For me, definitely retail/boxed titles for the foreseeable future, though the way things are going digital will no doubt consume sooner rather than later.