Xbox creator: digital won't doom the "console experience", but big publishers face "pain and trouble

Xbox creator: digital won't doom the "console experience", but big publishers face "pain and trouble" Gamers will always "crave" the "super premium high-end" games

http://www.oxm.co.uk/45749/xbox-creator-digital-wont-doom-the-console-experience-but-big-publishers-face-pain-and-trouble/

Seamus Blackley is one of the bright sparks behind the original Xbox, and more recently, the founder of mobile games developer Innovative Leisure, which gives him a pretty unique perspective on the industry's switch from boxed products to digital. In brief, Blackley thinks that talk of the "death" of consoles is, to an extent, misplaced. The nature of the box beneath the telly may change (assuming there's still a box beneath the telly), but the kinds of experiences customers currently expect of console games probably won't...