Retail Vs Digital Distribution – Your views?

We have reported at lot recently about the ongoing debate surrounding digital distribution and the games industry. Today, CEO of PopCap games David Roberts has said that the topic and whole idea is still ‘foreign’ to a lot of consumers.

In an interview with GI.Biz, he said that the traditional way of buying things at retail shops will continue for some time unless more developers and publishers make more of an effort to include online possibilities for their products.

He said: “I think, for certain products, there’s a lot of comfort for buying a disc and having it,We kind of all forget about that. A large percentage of Wal-Mart customers don’t even have credit cards. This whole idea of putting in your credit card and downloading something is a little bit foreign to a lot more people than we’d like to think.”

So there is one perspective on the whole issue, of course there is opinons from other people too. Where do you stand on the debate?