Pemalite said:
coolbeans said:
Yeah. I leaning more and more towards that mindset as well. To think of all the work they've done with BC (especially on the physical side) and still push further and further towards digital exclusivity seems insane. |
shikamaru317 said:
That seems to be what I am looking at for the future right now as well. Some of these recent Xbox moves I just haven't been a fan of, and these all digital and cloud integration rumors for the next gen Xbox console are very worrying to me. As it stands it is looking like I will go PC + Switch 2 for next gen, PC because both Xbox and Sony put most of their games onto it now (even if late in Sony's case), Switch 2 for the few Nintendo exclusives that interest me like Pokemon and Fire Emblem and Xenoblade. |
Yeah, their backwards compatibility is brilliant and brings with it tangible improvements to games.
I am actually buying *more* physical movies and tv shows these days.
I'm not going to subscribe to:
Disney+ for just the Mandalorian.
Amazon Prime just for Lord of the Rings.
Paramount+ just for Star Trek.
HBO for Game of Thrones.
AMC for The Walking Dead.
Gets to the point where you are better off having zero media streaming services... And just buy the boxset at the end of the season... Not only is it a higher quality version in terms of visuals and audio, but there are no adverts... And if you play your cards right, you save money. - Plus you have access to your copy forever.
Netflix consolidated the media industry for a time and that was great, but then everyone wanted to make their own exclusive walled garden of consumable media, which has made it a fragmented and difficult market.
And I fear video games are trending down that same path, where you only temporary "rent" the game and once the owner of the platform/media is done with it, they will take it away.
It's going to make game preservation hard as well.
Physical is still king while I can get it.
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Pretty much why I stopped subbing over 3 years ago now It seemed cheap to start with but at the pace I watch things I ended up spending £100 to watch Star Trek The Next generation on Netflix with how long it took me to watch it I since bought it on blu-ray for £40 and it's better quality and I don't have to keep re-renting it when I want to watch my favourite shows which I do quite often and it has led me to buy a lot more series on blu-ray this past few years than I ever did.
The only video streaming sub I still have is Crunchyroll because the entire anime market has been bought into a monopoly so you know whatever you want to watch will be there instead of checking a dozen other services to find the 5 shows you want to watch are all on different subs and it still is cheap at £39 a year.
