{"id":816652,"date":"2026-07-22T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:55:09","slug":"as-physical-disc-production-declines-are-gamers-ready-to-embrace-digital-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816652\/","title":{"rendered":"As physical disc production declines, are gamers ready to embrace digital distribution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"edhh7\">Hardware choice could be affected too. More than half of gamers say they would be less likely to choose a gaming system that does not support physical games (53%). This includes 85% of physical-game preferers and 41% of digital-game preferers.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent access could make digital-only gaming more acceptable<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"egm34\">Among gamers opposed to digital-only releases, 65% say a guarantee that purchased games will remain permanently accessible would make them more comfortable with the shift.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"637nv\">Lower digital game prices follow at 55%. More storage and cheaper hardware that does not support physical games are each selected by 42%, while 38% want the ability to sell or transfer digital purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hardware choice could be affected too. More than half of gamers say they would be less likely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-816652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}