They could do that, but it would cost them more money to provide that convenience to the customer. Since they are high AF on their own hype for that release, they have no motivation to do that.
Nothing wrong with that, except that it’s weird. Reselling games is not important to me though, I just keep what I get and add to the collection. Still have a physical boxed copy of Halo for Mac OS X in my attic even.
Being able to share the game with family or friends would be a plus. I can do that with my Steam library without discs too.
Games like that don’t really fit on discs anymore when they are probably over 100GB. So you get a disc and put it in the console and then it downloads 150GB more content onto the console, that means the disc is just a license key anyway.
What is a bigger issue is that they want to charge $80+ for a game. I’m not going to pay that much for any game.
Wouldn’t work because you can’t open the lid to do the fix to the little gear inside to fix the laser alignment (that old PS2s would need)
Seems pretty reasonable
Here’s the larger problem: other people will have this bullshit turned on and the microphones will receive the speech audio of everyone in their vicinity. It’s fully breaking consent to be recorded for others.
I do not care what they might say about “listening only to the owner” or whatever they will claim. If it’s recording with a microphone, then it will receive sound.
Big Brother Google is always listening, and probably would sell anything they’ve recorded to make a buck.
Maybe a lot of people in 2-party consent required jurisdictions should write in to google to state that they explicitly decline to consent to being recorded by google’s bullshit
The “AI boom” concept doesn’t make sense to me. What do they think we need the “AI” for? I find that I don’t need it for anything, and as I’m “being left behind” without using it, I still wonder what they think I should need it for.
In my experience the “AI” chatbots are useful for people who don’t know how to do anything. But I’ve spent my life learning how to do everything I ever wanted to learn how to do, so I just don’t need that.