How Series S could be last place in the US, Europe, and Japan, but first-place globally

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SvennoJ said:

I live in a small town, no fiber here and the only alternative to cable is 10 mbps through the phone line. (Which isn't stable either) We're happy to get HD on Netflix in the evening, if it works at all. So game streaming is simply not an option, unless you like endless frustration.

Funny, I see physical as space saving. When I need room for a new game, just delete the physical installs. The digital ones stay since they can take a long time to download again. Patches are a pita though. This morning some game had a 14GB patch while I was trying to play GT Sport. It took well over an hour to download, and during the 3 races I did on PS5 it seemed my internet was scrambled. Cars jumping all over the place, major lag. First I blamed my internet, yet after I switched to ps4 pro (while the ps5 kept on downloading) racing was smooth again. Maybe the PS5 can't handle downloading while playing, or my internet cleared up right as I switched. It's Sunday, second worst internet day after Saturday :/

Oh, interesting.  I'm sorry your internet experience is so crappy!  Mine is the opposite, I have two gigabit connections from two different providers (one as redundancy for the other, since I need it for work and 100% uptime is mission critical for me).  In practical terms, one gets used mostly for work and the other gets used mostly for entertainment, but each is available for either purpose in a pinch.  I didn't realize how spoiled I was, and I appreciate you educating me.  I do sometimes forget that the small town/rural availability of services can be far less.

Stacks upon stacks of games take up a lot more space than an large external HDD.  Anything I might download again sometime soon gets moved to the HDD, rather than deleted.  When it comes time to play something on the HDD, I just transfer it back to an SSD and play.  As a game gets older and the patches/updates get larger re-installing a physical game could trigger a very large download, and if you have a slow/unreliable connection and that would potentially take a LOT of time.  Whereas putting them on an external HDD avoids that.  And I can't speak for the PS5, but the Xbox can even keep the games on the HDD updated with new patches/updates in the meantime.

After collecting game carts/discs for Intellivision, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, Jaguar, Saturn, Dreamcast, Xbox, GameCube, and Xbox 360 (not to mention for Lynx, Game Gear, GBA, DS, and PSP), I said enough was enough.  Keeping them organized, dusted, moving them when I move house, etc., was becoming a colossal pain in the butt, and taking up a ridiculous amount of space!

Last edited by scrapking - on 29 December 2021