Quite obviously the survey has been commissioned with the intention of driving business towards eBay’s physical media sales, but nonetheless these are quite interesting findings, especially given recent issues with digital games like the recent news over L.A. Noire’s download size.
Furthermore, 36% of the participants aged between 35 and 44 ‘actively preferred’ playing physical games to digital ones.
Despite the rise in digital sales, online retailer eBay has announced that physical media is still a dominant format when it comes to games according to research conducted in August earlier this year.
Additionally, the survey found that 51% of those aged between 18-24 had bought a game on physical media in the last year, with one in ten owning ‘more than 100’.