Is PS4 the first console to sell like this without a fad?

[Brutalyst]

When these kind of discussions come about im always reminded of the old saying (even though its proved to be inaccurate so dont try it out) :D

If you put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put a frog into cold water, then slowly turn up the heat it will sit there and die.

What I mean by this, when the XBO and PS4 were being prepped for release Microsoft tried to force what they wanted onto the consumer. You need constant internet connection, cant trade games, almost like they were trying to push digital gaming onto you by removing the benefits of what buying the game physically gave you.

But I look now, and though they tried to force this sudden change oonto us and the consumer revolted, it feels this is where we are naturally heading now anyway. I myself and most people I know who own a PS4, and the consensus I get from what I see and read, alot of people have either moved to buying games digitally or have started heading that way. I never thought I would choose to buy games digitally over the discs, but now I rather buy a game on digital than on disc (the only exception being if there is a large difference in price between the two).

As we move that way, and continue to move that way - more people buying digitally, you need an internet connection and a pretty reliable one. By proxy any issues or disdain for the used games market goes with it, as you cant trade it. Even on smaller scale, more people who buy digitally means less who buy physical, meaning shops making money from selling games goes down, which (my own hypothesis) means to buy your used game from you they offer less for it (what you get offered for trading in games these days is sometimes insulting) because they dont want to pay anymore than is necessary when they have more stock of the game physically they find harder to move, and less people buying physical games over digital. All these things are driving down the desirability of owning your games on disc as opposed to digital.

I do believe we are slowly heading towards the model Microsoft envisioned back in 2013 when they unveiled XBO, only now we are in a pan that the heat is slowly being turned up, where as Microsoft wanted to drop us into the already boiling water.

Also reminds me of an analogy Armin Zola uses in Captain America the Winter Soldier when he is explaining Hydra's grand plan to Cap - OMG, Sony and Microsoft are Hydra!!! :O Well, Microsoft are Red Skull Hydra, and Sony are Alexander Pierce Hydra at least :D

P.S. Marvel reference for the win ^.^