Games may go Fable II episodic route in the future

Those that bothered to check out Microsoft and Lionhead Studios’ digital version of Fable II may have inadvertently downloaded the future. Industry people are starting to say that gamers might be purchasing their games in episodic chunks instead of $60 discs in a post-2009 world. You know, like we did with Fable II forever ago.

An example of one of these people is EA Canada senior producer, Jason DeLong. He shared his thoughts with Game Informer as part of a forward-looking feature in its February issue.

“I think that we’re going to start to see — maybe not in the next year, but in the near future — games go down the route of smaller up-front experiences and lower prices at the beginning,” he said, “an then the ability to extend the game through episodic material or future feature material.

“I think that’s a direction we’re probably headed in.”

Software Prices Drop for 2010? [Game Informer]