| Azzanation said: Not disgareeing with you, however my point before is nothing last forever. The mentally of owning physical games because it last forever is not true as everything has a life span especially media formats. |
Not saying Physical lasts forever.
| Azzanation said: I cannot speak on behalf of console business models as there main strategy is to close and move on to there next product basically with the mentally of "upgrade or be left behind". However I am quite confident that Live and PSN are adopting a similar approach to Steam this gen which will carry onto there next products etc unifiying there eco-systems into one big platform. If someone is buying games on a not-so-well establishment than closures are more than likely to happen eventually. |
Console business business model is irrelevant. You can speculate on "possibilities" all you like, we either base things on evidence or historical precedence.
And plenty of console online networks have been shut down.
How long until the PS3 network goes under?
The Wii online store was an "establishment" that should have been mildly successful considering the size of the user-base, but didn't last as long as the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3's networks. Go figure.
| Azzanation said: Hardware is also likely to fail on gamers over time and considering Physical media is very reliant on hardware this only makes physical media more likely to have issues. Games can be scratched and eaten by disk drives, old cartridge style games do deteriorate over time aswell unlike Digital. Most of my Atari 2600 games barely work but if they were digital they will work every time like they were brand new. That's basically my point. Digital can actually last you longer than phyiscal if the game remains on the store front and like I mentioned before, its incredibly rare that a game you brought on a well known establishment like Steam, Live and PSN will be taken down.. I know there have be one offs here and there on those platforms however again its the only issue you have to worry about with digital. And if they did take the game down and you brought it, you can actually complain and claim a case with your digital receipt. |
Correct, hardware is likely to fail on gamers over time. But with Physical you aren't tying your ENTIRE game collection to that SINGULAR device.
You can bring your physical games over to the next system... Or even to the next system. (I.E. PS1 games on PS2, Xbox games on Xbox 360, Wii on WiiU and so forth.)
Fact is, Physical games have outlasted digital every single time if we are to base things on history, all my SNES games work fine today, I just replaced the batteries.
All my Nintendo 64 games work fine today.
All my OG Xbox games work fine today.
All my PS2 games work fine today.
And I look after my shit so they don't get scratched, damaged or subjected to extremes.
Steam has removed games.
PSN has gone offline for extremely extended periods of time and will likely get shut off for the PS3 at some point.
Xbox Live was depreciated on the Original Xbox, Microsoft will likely do the same with the Xbox 360 at some point.
Digital Stores don't last.
| Azzanation said: Like I said before, my Steam games all work like there brand new while my Atari, NES, PS1 and SNES games struggle, some work fine, some have been damaged over the course of time and some clearly don't work at all. I own Warhammer Online collectors edition and that games server has been closed, with the disk or not the game wont work period. So if you are in the business to collect, than physical makes sense but if you are in the business for last ability than choose your poison because both have advantages and disadvantages BUT I say Digital have very little disadvantages than Physical and I say this as a 15 year Steam user. |
All my old console games work fine, it's the console itself that has issues, I.E. Failing optical laser in the PS1 or removed the clock capacitor in my OG Xbox.
Nothing lasts forever. Precedent is there for online distribution stores to be shut down... Even those owned by big companies like Games for Windows Live!
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