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SvennoJ on 23 August 2014
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tuscaniman99 said:
toot1231 said:

I don't support digital games at all.

If physical games dissapear then I will not support any "system" or company that does it.

I know for a fact im not alone on this.

How do you watch movies or listen to music? Video games will have to be like other forms of media or die out.

I listen to music on CDs, still buy them now and then, haven't bought a single digital song yet.
I buy movies on blu-ray, but I do occasionally rent one digitally since I have no physical rental option anymore. (And usually end up hating the compression artifacts and lack of options)
Cloud gaming: no ownership, extra lag, compression artifacts, compressed sound, not for me.

I only buy digital downloads if there is no other option, which is indie games. I have bought some AAA games on Steam in sales, yet hardly play on PC anymore. My interest in PC gaming became a lot less when PC games disappeared from stores.

By the time consoles disappear I'll be in my late 50's anyway and probably be happy with retro gaming. I do want to experience VR, but I don't see how that can work from the cloud. Any lag will ruin the immersion and cause motion sickness. Any head movements need to be updated in real time, preferably at 75hz or more. You show me a cloud server that can do the full round trip, poll movement, transfer data, render frame, compress frame, transfer data, decompress frame, display data in 13ms consistently without any hickups or compression artifacts in a 4K image x 2.