So If Consoles Went All Digital What Would You Do?

[Zappykins]

KingdomHeartsFan said:

Zappykins said:

1. True, still may happen on the Xbox One, but current trends killed or delayed that option.  But if they are lower in price, might not be as crucial if they are not $60 game.

2. True, but if your Disk Breaks or is lost you have the same problem.  Or if your, no longer being made, console breaks, you're out of luck too. Plus you can't lose your digital games, or have to go find it to play it. (Now if companies would make statements like Amazon, that they would keep the games up forever, it would alleviate this stress.  I can't imagine a bunch of old games take that many servers.  Seems like a cost of business to me. )

With digital, your console breaks, you can just download them all again. You could also get a nice USB Flash drive and backup your games on there. 

3.  You must have awesome parties with all those games! Yes, extra hard drive for the WiiU and later the Xbox One.

4.  No contest there.  There are some pretty cool made statues/accessories.  I really like the stuff McFarland makes.  Like this 2 foot Sauron statue from Lord of the Rings.

 

You should make some pictures of your collections!

Can you explain to me how that works because I have no idea.  I know on 360 right now your digital game has a lisence tied to it and if you copy a game to a flash drive to back it up it won`t be the full game it will only be the demo.  I don`t understand how you would get the lisence on the original copy you have on your console and the backup copy you have on your USB.  That is why I don`t understand when people say backup your digital games.

You can copy a game to a USB, as long as it is associated to your gamertag you can play it.  My buddy does it with Castle Crashers when he comes to my place.  He has to log into live, but then we can both play.

Basically copy and do not delete it.  But I do see how licensing can get a little messy.

You can also transfer license from one hard drive to another. You do not need to have access to the hard drive.  I know this cause one of my buddies X360 was just stolen :(

It says here: "It's okay to copy and move saved games from one Xbox 360 console to another. You don't have to repurchase the game or reload it onto your second console."

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-games-on-windows/manage-games-data

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive

But back to my other point.  We should ask Microsoft to just guarantee those games will stay available till Xbox Live Banned members can return in 9999.  (or at least 2030.)