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I bought the disc edition almost two years ago now. I wish I just bought the digital edition, because I’ve still yet to buy a physical game for it.
because I’ve still yet to buy a physical game for it.
I didn’t get the disc edition for the PS5 games. I got it for the PS4 games I still owned physically over digitally, and would rather not repurchase my library as part of the cost of the console.
Yeah, the disc edition makes sense for that situation. The PS5 was my first PS console, so I didn’t have a library to make use of the drive with. Nor do I own any blu-rays. I spent an extra $100 for nothing. :\
I no longer play on consoles since I mostly play on PC but I saw no point in buying digital on consoles since you can’t sell the games you don’t want to keep after playing or buying heavily discounted ones from second hand.
I agree. PC games haven’t been on store shelves in… 15 years? So they don’t even come into the equation. I did by digital for the Switch though, but that’s just because the cards are so goddamn tiny and it’s a pain to eject them and put them in.
Big consoles? Absolutely want the physical copy.
Oh boy. You should see PS Vita cards. Switch cards seem huge by comparison.
Damn. Did you need jewelery tools to change games? If the Switch didn’t have a dock mode I never would have gotten it, to be honest.
I mean… When I got my PS5 the choice was spend $50 less to get the digital, discless console with nothing else, or spend the normal price for the disc version and get a free game bundled with it (God of War: Ragnarok). The stupid thing, is that the game isn’t physical. It was a voucher for a digital redemption. So why the fuck didn’t the discless version come with the same bundle?
It also makes more sense to have the disc version because only used physical games get deep discounts. I got NHL23, which is still 70 fucking dollars digital, even though NHL24 is coming out in just a few weeks; I picked it up at GameStop for $12.
I’m not a collector; I genuinely don’t mind digital stuff (so long as they don’t arbitrarily take them away) because I honestly don’t have room to keep a ton of boxes and games around. But if they are the cheapest way to play, then by god I’m using a disc.
Disc version is what I got, I wanted a blu ray player too for movies and didn’t want an extra device separate for that. It’s why I always go for the disc versions.
I think there was a brief moment on the enshittification curve where it may have seemed to newer generations that digital was the better option because having your library with you at all times was just a “feature” without obvious anti-consumer downsides.
Now that companies are starting to deactivate post-sale content, pointless always-online barriers to using content are getting more frustrating, and there’s generally a feeling like companies are forcing everything into a subscription-for-life model, I’m hoping people are seeing the benefits of just buying an object that lets you play a game forever.
No more physical games would probably push me toward a Linux gaming PC as the games would be cheaper and the system more polyvalent.
Still, I don’t want to have to go through a lot of settings to find a way to make the game run properly so I hope I’ll still see advantages in future consoles.
I don’t want to have to go through a lot of settings to find a way to make the game run properly
Those days are mostly gone
Very interesting in my view. In a lot of online discussions, people are often dismissing physical media, but it seems the majority of consumers prefer to have a disc drive (myself included). This also gives me hope, that the next generation of consoles will also come with a disc drive, giving us more options to buy games.
When consoles go digital only, it will be the end of consoles.
You can’t sell the hardware without a physical presence of games, otherwise you fall into the PS Vita trap of “it doesn’t have any games!”
I like having a physical product when I’m spending $40-$70 on a game. When it’s less than that, I’m generally okay with it.
But if consoles go digital, I’ll still buy it. But I’m going to be a lot more patient with my purchases.
I hope your optimism is warranted. It feels just as likely that they will take the opposite lesson and learn that offering a drive at all is a mistake
