• Switorik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    If we’re going to transition to digital only, a couple things need to happen.

    When we purchase a game, we own it. This is not a long term rental.

    If we want to sell it or trade it, we can.

  • nerdlovesgym@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I’m fine with digital for convenience. I just don’t want physical to disappear. Having both options is better for everyone.

    • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
      2 months

      I would be fine with digital only, but only if there was no DRM.

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        And alternative stores with alternative servers so I don’t have to buy a subscription for online capabilities and the ability to install whatever software I want… I guess a PC will do just fine.

  • grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    “Gamers push back.” Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.

  • oh_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    The whole point of a console is ease, I pop in the disk, I play. If you take away that ease, it becomes just a locked down PC… why would you want that when you could just have a full PC?

    • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      I don’t want to make digital seem better, but for this argument it is… you don’t even need the disc, you just turn on the console and select the game. All from the comfort of your sofa. Hell, you don’t even need to go to a store or wait for a delivery in the first place, all those bytes just come to you.

      I think something to realize here is that A.) The above is why the majority of people just use digital at this point, and B.) Inserting a brand new game disc into your console still requires downloads, installing and often being online to do so anyway. Modern games rarely even fit on one disc, so the disc is less useful that it was in the XBox OG and PS1 days. It’s more like what Nintendo is doing with the Game Key Carts.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 months

        Modern games rarely even fit on one disc

        That’s deliberate on their part too, though. New storage formats have been coming out once a decade going back to the dawn of electronic computing. Pioneer demonstrated a 400Gb optical disc exactly 8 years ago to the day. The technology exists, they’re just choosing not to mass market it.

        The massive post-install downloads thing is also a commercial decision, not an immutable fact.

    • wowbaggerip@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28 days

      Fun fact! PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live, and Nintendo Online subscriptions go directly to them and none of that supports the server costs game developers have to pay to host online games. This is why most online games are forced into the games-as-a-service model, which makes zero sense to me as a game developer. It’s also why most indie games do not bother to add online multiplayer support as it’s far too expensive to pay for server hosting, let alone the cost of development.