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Console video game players by a wide margin still favor buying games on physical discs as opposed to digital downloads, a new survey shows. That’s good news for retailer GameStop (GME), which has been dogged by speculation that digital delivery of full console games will crush its business. A Piper Jaffray survey of 608 people who own next-generation consoles found that 75% preferred buying physical discs that can be traded vs. buying a digital copy. The survey also determined that 44% of next-gen console owners have never purchased downloadable content. The survey results suggest that the recent growth of digital downloads is likely to stall. “Publishers have suggested that 10-20% of certain titles have been purchased as full game downloads,” Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson said in a report Friday. “Early buyers of next-gen consoles (core gamers) should arguably be the group that is most apt to purchase full game… Scalper1 News
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