Futuresource Consulting's senior market analyst Mai Hoang has some interesting predictions regarding Sony's future digital distribution plans. According to the analyst (via Video Business), Sony is considering rolling out $40 downloadable versions of its regular $60 disc-based software. It's a strategy that Sony has already experimented with using SOCOM: Confrontation, and it's a tactic that has been fully-implemented for first-party PSP titles in Japan.Futuresource reckons Sony wants to get a bigger slice of the digital format industry, as total revenues for digital distribution gaming are projected to reach $2.3 billion by the end of this year -- and $5.4 billion by 2012. Hopefully, if Sony does plan on standardizing concurrent digital and disc releases, it'll do a better job on quality control for such titles. Here's looking at you, SOCOM.
