EA: digital sales will eventually overtake boxed games

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In an interview with Reuters, Moore explained that while EA will move in the direction of digital sales as the market demands it, boxed software sales will continue as long as the market for it survives.
"There will come a point, whether it is two or three years from now, when we say 'we are doing more in digital media now than we are in physical media,' and it's clearly ... not far away," Moore said.

Reuters points out that EA's expected packaged goods revenue for the fiscal year ending March 2013 is $2.6 billion, with digital products expected to bring in $1.7 billion, while its digital revenue increased by 55 percent in the first quarter of that year.

Moore insisted that boxed media will stick around for a while, saying "we will never abandon physical media. As long as the consumer wants to buy something on a disc, we will be there to offer it."

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/362521/ea-digital-sales-will-eventually-overtake-boxed-games/

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FMCPosted:

THECARJACKER New game smell.....


I sit and smell it for like 5 minutes before I play it.

SmurfsPosted:

THECARJACKER New game smell.....


LOL yeah.



FMC But then you can't let your friends borrow it etc


Yeah that will kinda suck. But game companies probably dont want us doing that.

CearnsyPosted:

THECARJACKER New game smell.....


That smell is so good i do this all the time i get a new game just pop the case open and get a brief smell of it

OrigamoPosted:

I hope that boxed games will not disappear completely.

FMCPosted:

But then you can't let your friends borrow it etc

MoocraftPosted:

THECARJACKER New game smell.....


gotta love it

THECARJACKERPosted:

New game smell.....

ConditionPosted:

Digital media would be awesome for xbox!

CearnsyPosted:

Glad its not far away also 2.6 billion wow

FamousPosted:

I could see that.