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archer9234 on 10 November 2014
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disolitude said:
Sentient_Nebula said:

That seems like an interesting idea. Besides, Sony and MS want you to buy games digitally (More DRM, no second-hand market, more profits). So the more people they can get off discs, the happier they'll be.

I would always prefer disc though. It costs the same as digital, and I have more freedom with the game (I could lend it to a friend, or sell it used). Discs also save on storage space. Having to change discs for games isn't that big a deal for me.

The only way to convince me to go all-digital is if the digital games cost less than their disc-based counterparts.


I recognize the appeal of physical copies ...I still have a huge Sega Genesis/Sega CD collection that I wouldn't trade for the world, despite the fact I can play all those games on dozen different emulators. 

The thing is that the new consoles just work better when everything is digital.  The whole pause/resume feature is downright broken when multiple disk games are involved. Call me lazy but I hate swapping those disks...and even seeing them stacked in the living room bugs me.

I recieved Dead Rising 3 few weeks ago on disk. The game has a 16 GB patch after initial iisk install...Halo MCC is something like 20 GB patch on day 1. The physical disks for these games is downright useless by themselves and serve just as a showpiece in the living room while DLC is the actual game. 

If I could go visit friends for a night and bring my disk games with me to play right away, I would see a purpose for them. But they sometimes take up to an hour to install and if the game has additional DLC that has to be installed, forget about playing it at all that night. 

I choose discs for long term investment. Unless the companies can provide my DL's will work on my PS3 in 30 years. PSN being shutdown etc. Like my NES does, for example. Cause that HDD is gonna fail long before the system hardware does. And I'd just fix it. HDD data, not so much. Well, intill the PS3 OS is fully hacked. And I can backup the drive at will.