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disolitude on 20 June 2013
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kitler53 said:
disolitude said:
1. Its annoying to change, store, keep track of disks especially when your library grows and you live in a small condo
2. Your entire library saved digitally meaning you have no worries of loss, theft, damage for your games
3. Loading/wait times are drastically reduced
4. No hassle background game updates for digital
many more reasons dealing with convenience

I have 100s of games for sega genesis, sega cd, saturn and dreamcast in storage rotting away. Going through the hassle of getting that shit out and setting it up is not going to happen. But I boot up my Steam Sega Genesis collection at least once per month.

Your desire to play games when everything is there at your fingertips increases 10X... I see buying physical as a complete waste at this point as I probably won't use it ever again after I finish the initial playthrough.

3. full instal required for all x1 and ps4 games so null and void.

4. i already get no hassle background game updates on my ps3 disc based games so i don't know what you are talking about there

 

1 and 2 are the main benefits and worth it for me.  however i'll add:

3. not having to go to the store to purchase a game.  especially for smaller games where the download is only a couple minutes i love the immediacy of that.


Xbox 360 has full installs too and loading time is slowed down by the disk verification. The DVD drive on Xbox 360 spins quite frequently so I'm guessing the disk verification is performed quite frequently. There is no reason to believe next gen consoles won't work the same way. I doubt the verification will be done once and then you play the game off the hard drive 100%

In terms of background updates, you still have to play your game to get the update even if it installs in the background. Your digital library would be updated if you're watching football or playing a different game. Its something you really wouldn't even see or think about with digital where on Xbox 360 you get warnings from time to time "you must install this update before connecting to Xbox live". Dunno where PS3 is at in terms of updates but last time I checked it had them just like Xbox 360.