Alan Wake developer Remedy counts itself among the studios that are very gung ho about the gaming industry's gradual shift to digital distribution. According to Matias Myllyrinne, the Finnish studio's CEO, the sooner the industry goes fully digital, the better.

"Certainly we're looking to embrace more of the digital stuff," he told Edge in a recent interview. "I'm really excited about PSN, [Xbox] Live and some of the stuff on Steam, because it really allows you to directly engage with your audience. All these opportunities are opened up that you couldn't do before – there wasn’t a model you could work around."

"I don't think the big, huge experiences are going anywhere," he added, "but the sooner we go digital as an industry, the better for everybody. Better for consumers, better for the developers and publishers."

Better for pretty much everybody, really, with the exception of retail stores. Myllyrinne continued, "Maybe [it's] not so good for retail but then again if you're selling our games as used copies and incentivising people to do that, then I don't really feel sorry for you."

Via [Edge]

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