I'm pleased to know it's still ticking over, for the majority at least. What about the indie PC market?
Regarding steam (or other digital providers), I confess I know nothing about it's past failures or present successes. I have no crusade. It simply isn't compatible with my lifestyle or my current setup. If I find the rare time to play games, I don't have the time to wait on download progress bars . In addition, I move around frequently and so I run on mobile broadband. While this meets my needs in almost every way, I simply don't have the bandwidth to download gigabytes of updates. If that means I can't buy games.. then I can't buy games.
It seems that if I want to walk down the street, pay for a game in cash, pop it into my machine and shoot away for an hour.. I'll be looking at a console, which is fair enough.
(or.. do consoles now require a connection to play single player games too?)
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Indie PC market is now also mainly being sold on platforms such as Steam. Also a few console single player games require a connection or require a connect to unlock extra content but the large majority do not. Seems like the money you would spend on a console could go to paying for a high speed internet connection but if you really don't want a real internet connection then by all means buy a console.