8 Terrifying Facts & Predictions About The Future Of Gaming

3. Fact: All-Digital Storefronts Monopolise Price Points

We've been hearing for years now that "brick n' mortar video game stores are dead", and although many outlets have found second winds thanks to investing heavily in the retro market or adapting themselves to more of a "video game cafe" style setup, when was the last time you went into a dedicated video game shop?

The vast majority of us choose accessibility and convenience over anything else, and purchasing digitally is the best way to scratch that itch - especially when it comes to preloading for a midnight launch.

To that end - and I'm guilty of this too - we're susceptible to paying inflated prices for a day one play, or not doing the physical legwork to get around whichever figure is being thrown up in front of us.

In the UK at least, the only other place you're going to for a physical video game outside of dedicated shops or a GAME/CEX/Grainger Games, is a supermarket, and they treat game prices like any other product.

In the end, the death of physical sales as a primary way to purchase video games means the industry sets and maintains the prices, and that's bad for the consumer.