Katherine Brice
Deputy Editor, GamesIndustry.biz

30/06/2009 @ 08:57

"Full game downloads are not imminent" - Pachter

Industry observers expecting videogames to follow music and offer full console game downloads in the near future are wrong - it won't happen until at least 2019, according to a report by Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter - and even then downloads will represent less than 50 per cent of total game sales.

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