So If Consoles Went All Digital What Would You Do?

[JoeTheBro]

KingdomHeartsFan said:

Zappykins said:
I would go digital.

You don't really own games now. Just a license to use them.

You can't legally sing Happy Birthday, record it, and play it for others unless you pay those Hill sisters a royalty. (well, they have died, but he company that owns the copy-write it's good until 2030. )

You don't really own books for that matter (unless they are beyond their copyright.) You can read them all you want, but you can't take parts out and republish. Book copy-writes can be 120 years.

I just don't see what the big deal is.

Well for me:

1. I can`t resell my games

2. If my console breaks after they shut down the servers then I just lost all my games and have no way to get them back and lets be honest its not like consoles are getting more dependable...

3. I tend to buy a lot of games like I have around 40-50 for my 360 and PS3 each, so I`m sure I would run out of memory and have to delete a game to download another, and when the servers go down all the games I have no room for are gone.  Ofc I can buy an external HDD, but that just adds another $100 to what I already have to pay.

4. I`m a collector and you can`t add digital games to a collection and put them on your shelf.

There might be something I`m forgetting, I feel like I am, but that`s the main things off the top of my head.

You are legally allowed to make backups of your games, even if it's against the TOS. Just put those backups on discs ;)