Would you buy a digital only console?

[JRPGfan]

Aquamarine said:

Aquamarine said:

No---it's anti-consumer because you are completely unable to resell them, and you have to buy them at steep prices with only rare opportunities for discounts.

Not to mention it's horrible for the preservation of the artform when the games are locked down to a closed ecosystem. What happens 15 years from now when they shut the storefront down and they go bankrupt? I don't want all of my bought-and-paid-for games subject to the whims of an ephemeral company who can just revoke my access to them at any time.

You can still buy and sell 35-year-old NES games that work perfectly. Will I still be able to do that 35 years from now with a digital-only console? Hell no.

Although now that I think about it, companies are pushing that nonsensical "Games as a service" DRM where you can only play your *single-player game* if you're connected to their bullshit servers (like The Division, Hitman, Need For Speed, Diablo 3 and Sim City initally, etc.).

If they're going to put a ticking time-bomb on games that will explode and render them a coaster the instant the game is no longer profitable......we might as well embrace an all-digital future.

...And watch our artform completely vanish 30 years from now.

The power of the cloud! :p

Its just another form of DRM. 

Crackdown 3 is going to have input lag issues, desync more than usual, and the servers will be more expensive to run than normal (if it flops or people stop playing it, they ll be quick to shut them off). Im calling it now.

 

I hope we dont go all digital consoles, anytime in the near future.