So, How Many People Actually Buy Stuff Over XBLA Or The PSN?

[wraggster]

Digital delivery of games and gaming content is the inevitable future. But how prevalent is it in the present? The NPD Group estimate that, as it stands, digital downloads on a console are doing...OK.

The retail tracking firm reckon that, of all Xbox Live "Gold" subscribers, 18% of them "regularly download from Xbox Live Arcade". When it comes to the PlayStation Network, things aren't quite as big, as only an estimated 10% of account holders "regularly buy digitally from Sony's PlayStation Network".

It's important to note that this survey isn't counting somebody who bought a single copy of Street Fighter II over XBLA and left it at that. It's tracking those who buy, and buy often.

http://kotaku.com/5286778/so-how-many-people-actually-buy-stuff-over-xbla-or-the-psn

[malgora]

i only download demos off the psn, i dont have a wireless network around myhouse yet so i have to keep on unplugging the net from my pc to the ps3. its a hassle so yeah, plus i dont dont want to waste my downloads on like a ps3 game i still prefer to have a hard copy of thigs.. but thats just me ...

[Ultima Chocochu]

I wonder if I am one of those people, I buy off the PSN decently often XD

[ketchup]

I don't trust MS or Sony with holding my credit card details. As a result I only buy from MS with pre-paid points cards and until Sony do the same in Europe I won't be buying anything from the PSN, (it's been promised since launch but still only available in the US as far as I'm aware).

[wraggster]

we have 3 ps3s but i only use the psn network for free stuff, no way am i giving my details to online companies

[Ultima Chocochu]

I've used a mix of debit/PSN Cards, probably PSN cars mostly but, you can still delete the info even though it's still understandable to not want to do so.
Course that money is put into a bank account in which we only use for online stuff so XDDD

[Triv1um]

All this fear of buying stuff online is outragious.

Its sony for god sake. They aren't internet crooks.

[Nocuddle]

Its sony for god sake. They aren't internet crooks.

Yeah but they r offline crooks. :rofl:

[Ultima Chocochu]

All this fear of buying stuff online is outragious.

Its sony for god sake. They aren't internet crooks.

Agreed, but people are more so worried about people hacking into things, of course when people usually have their accounts hacked it's normally for a beyond moronic reason.

[jamotto]

I have bought about 7 titles off of the PSN so far.

[ketchup]

Agreed, but people are more so worried about people hacking into things, of course when people usually have their accounts hacked it's normally for a beyond moronic reason.

This is of course one of the reasons I prefer pre-paid cards but the other is to keep my spending under control. If I put my credit details into the stores it'll be like spending Monopoly money, it won't "seem" like it's really costing me and I'll end up buying too much stuff some of which I don't really want but just wanted to try.
Anyway Sony where are the pre-paid cards for Europe that you promised years ago?

[chuggman]

I've bought more stuff from Nintendo's VC and Wiiware thatn I have from either XBLA or PSN.

However I have bought a few games on each. Xbox I got Banjo Kazooie and want to get Banjo Tooie but have not yet. Also got TMNT Arcade and Worms. PS3 I got Lemmings, and Crash Bandicoot. As well as a few other small arcade games.

[Darksaviour69]

I buy stuff of XBL all the time, just got Gunstar Heroes (btw awsome game). But I agree its easy to over spend with the credit card