Google GDC Keynote Official Thread

[dharh]

BraLoD said:

dharh said:

6.  This is a problem already for any person who buys digitally.  Obviously it's much less likely that SONY just goes completely dead tomorrow and all your digital stuff poofs than it is for Google to abandon Stadia in two years like some predict.  However, I think they want to be in on this for the long haul.  Even if this were only just google play game apps on all devices everywhere it would still be a profit maker.  If they can pull off Triple A games everywhere and everyone but us diehards buy into it, it will be massive.

No it's not.

Digital downloads and streaming is very different.

If Sony goes out of business tomorrow I'll still be able to play any and all my downloads games on PS3/PS4.

Unless you mean PS+ freebies.

Downloaded games are saved on your drives, not the cloud.

If I never connect my system to the internet anymore even if the company has malicious intentitions of bricking my consoles or locking my games throught a patch they still simply can't reach it.

Physical media is still king because they would need to come with a hammer to my house and destroy my games to be able to make me stop playing them but digital downloads are still a lot safer than streaming.

Actually streaming is not safe at all. If there is no server there is no game. We might even see exclusives just never being able to be played anymore.

Look at P.T., if you downloaded it you still can play it as much as you want on your PS4. If it was a stream exclusive game nobody would be able to play it anymore. Nobody.

If you need to delete a game to make room for another.  Own more games than you have space for.  This is a problem for my PS3 and Steam btw.

Even physical media these days are not immune.  How about when PS3 is completely end of life-ed.  Will we still be able to download patches for games? DLC? Do I seriously want to play a game that required a 50gig day 1 patch that can no longer be patched?

What about when that console dies.  Swap hard drives into another console?

There are probably mmos that have been completely lost to the ether.

I know you can keep your games that you've already downloaded, that's a given.  But I respectfully disagree that you are immune from losing your stuff.