| Ka-pi96 said: I'd quit console gaming for sure. Don't mind digital on PC because significantly cheaper prices and it's quick and easy to see which games you have and to redownload them if needed. On console those prices are much higher £20 more for some new games and even more on older games as it seems rare for digital console games to get discounts. For example FIFA 15 is currently £39.99 (was probably £50 or £60 at release) on PSN while a physical copy on Amazon is only £12.50, that's a new copy as well not used. Plus no backwards compatibility? Fuck that! Buy a digital game on PC and I can play it on any PC any number of years later. For a console? Nope. Tied solely to that hardware. Sony no longer produce PS3s? well that's my entire library of PS3 games gone then. At least if I had physical copies I could either sell them on or use emulators (legal since I'd own the games and at one point the hardware) to continue playing them. Then there's download times. My internet is kinda crappy and no way am I upgrading it, costs too much as it is, so it's still faster to go out to a shop and buy a physical copy of a game than it is to download it. Then there's preorders. What do I get with a digital preorder? Probably nothing. Maybe a predownload or something which I likely won't bother with anyway. Oh and maybe some extra costumes or something that I couldn't give a fuck about. What do I get with a physical preorder? Well 9 times out of 10 I end up getting the game a day or two early. |
completley agree, Retail Games are an advantage for console gaming over PC.
| homer said: If you buy games expecting them to increase in value, you're just being foolish. You will make more for your efforts flipping burgers. |
well some allready did it for me like Akibastrip, Toukiden or Fatal Frame 5 bought them all lower and now they increased in price haha . I found this very impressve for new games. I also get many older games for a good price who increase in value, i got Klonoa for 17€ last year now the game goes over 50.
I dont specificcaly buy games to sell them. I just counted the facts in a neutral perspective as a consumer.
BasilZero said:
And your hardware (Wii, WiiU, 3DS, Vita, PS3, PS4, Xbox360, Xbox One) will also break down and you wont be able to replace them because the manufacturers wont make them anymore due to the existence of their successors in the future. What will you do then? Build yourself a PS3? l0l Both Physical and digital platforms both have ends. Just because you buy physical media now doesnt guarantee that you will have it forever. Dont forget about disc rot - that will happen eventually to your physical media as well. |
Trust me there are 110 million Wiis, 170million PS360s and over 60 million 8 gen consoles right now. There will be plenty avaible espacially the x86 architecture consoles will be very reliable. And there will be emulators on PC and Blue-Ray Drives for it.
