Research firm Ipos MediaCT has published findings claiming that gamers prefer physical media to digital. This means that most gamers would rather buy a game and receive it on a DVD\/Blu ray than buying it off the likes of Steam, despite the digital medium’s convenience advantage. <\/p>\n
Over 1000 people participated in the survey, and the two main reasons for the preference toward physical media were being able to resell disk based games, and having a history of a physical media collection. <\/p>\n
“I believe the preference for physical discs amongst next gen gamers reflects the potential value they derive from the pre-owned market, which is holding up the preference for physical,” said Ipsos MediaCT director Ian Bramley.<\/p>\n
Bramley added: “Physical games discs have a long and well-established history, which is a deep mindset to change – particularly when gamers build a physical collection as they fear losing digital versions. And in-store browsing is also important to buyers.”<\/p>\n
The percentage of people who prefer music on disks was lower at 45%, and 51% of movie watchers prefer to have their movies on DVD.<\/p>\n