Why so stubborn? What's really wrong with digital media?

[SvennoJ]

generic-user-1 said:

SvennoJ said:

What savings? At least here physical is still less than digital, even before resell value.
HDDs tend to fail a lot sooner than discs, and if a hdd fails you lose everything on it. I haven't had 1 unreadable disc yet since CDs, at least 6 failed HDDs in that time. I've now got all our personal data saved on 3 separate HDDs, paranoid maybe, but sick of losing stuff due to HDD failures.

Btw when you install stuff on an external HDD from an XB1, can another XB1 read it too? Or are you screwed when the console breaks?

why should you go digital with a console?  And steam saving  are easyly enough to buy another hdd.    and i dont know what you are doing, never had problems with HDD, just put a used(10 years of gaming pc duty) hdd in an original xbox last week(realy nice console!).

Regular daily use, I'm talking over the course of 20 years here. Do you have a 20 year old HDD that still works? I have plenty CDs older than that without any problems. Pretty much most of my magnetic media from over 20 years ago is toast. HDDs get bad sectors all the time and your pc usually manages to work around that, until they show up in the boot sector. I just did a chkdsk on my 5 year old PC that's not even used that much, already a bunch of lost clusters found.

But indeed, why go digital with console. I go physical for PC too when possible. It's the same price, free delivery, no big download, fast install, goes right into my Steam library as well. No fuss installing it on my desktop and laptop, no downloading it twice, no need for a backup.

It does suck that many games don't work all that well without a (bunch of) patch(es). At least I can trade those in and keep the ones that work fine out of the box.