BabyTyrant
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To me it feels like they have tried to kill physical media for games multiple times
You had Xbox try to make it so used games couldn't be Borrowed to someone else as they wanted the game to register and be stuck to the 1st owner; bad timing, didn't work out
Then we started getting "Digital" consoles without a disc drive, first with the One SAD edition; and this console Generation launched with the Series S and PS5 "Digital Edition"
Now many will choose the convenience of all Digital, giving up the option to even buy Disc's at all
I like Physical because I usually find better deals on a used Copy, especially 4-6+ months after a game releases
Not to mention if I hate a game or finish it, I have something I can sell; can't do that if you buy Digital
The biggest Pros of Digital being not having to manually change disc's (Laziness) and I suppose there's no Disc to break (not that I've ever done that myself)
But let's say you score a game for $15 on clearance, can't use that with the Digital console; might be paying $60 on a 2 year old game because you gave up your options
I wonder though with a lot of the market increasingly going all Digital, how long before the option gets taken away entirely, 5-6 years? Maybe 10-11 if it takes 2 Generations?
You had Xbox try to make it so used games couldn't be Borrowed to someone else as they wanted the game to register and be stuck to the 1st owner; bad timing, didn't work out
Then we started getting "Digital" consoles without a disc drive, first with the One SAD edition; and this console Generation launched with the Series S and PS5 "Digital Edition"
Now many will choose the convenience of all Digital, giving up the option to even buy Disc's at all
I like Physical because I usually find better deals on a used Copy, especially 4-6+ months after a game releases
Not to mention if I hate a game or finish it, I have something I can sell; can't do that if you buy Digital
The biggest Pros of Digital being not having to manually change disc's (Laziness) and I suppose there's no Disc to break (not that I've ever done that myself)
But let's say you score a game for $15 on clearance, can't use that with the Digital console; might be paying $60 on a 2 year old game because you gave up your options
I wonder though with a lot of the market increasingly going all Digital, how long before the option gets taken away entirely, 5-6 years? Maybe 10-11 if it takes 2 Generations?
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