Do you find games on Disc/cart better than digital? (Poll)

[Jumpin]

Leynos said:

Jumpin said:

I've been all digital for over a decade now. Although, I still maintain a substantial physical library (in totes). Digital media has numerous benefits over physical media: significantly greater variety of content, no durability concerns, and convenience across games, books, TV, music, and films. While physical collections have nostalgic appeal, digital formats provide superior advantages:

• Environmental Benefits: If you're a Greenie, like myself, then this might be a concern to you. All digital contributes less to waste and pollution from manufacturing, shipping, and plastics helps minimize your carbon footprint. I understand many people don't care about the environment, and are actually purposely hostile toward it because of political affiliations - so this one isn't for everyone.

All in all, I don't miss having my data on a whole bunch of different pieces of plastic. I have found going full digital to be a significant improvement. And, in fact, the time I did have physical media is still a massive burden for me, because I still have a lot of that junk.

This was proven to be a myth years ago as servers maintaining digital games and ESP in the era added NFTs they cause more green house gases. If games were still under 10GB and gaas had not taken over and no NFTs you'd be right but games reaching hundreds of GBs and now a large chunk of games being gaas. Some include MTX and NFTs that is far from the case anymore. Then account for how many watts a PS5 or Xbox generates or a 4090 now think what the 5090 swill be.

I agree that NFTs are a big issue - and it's tied to the same technology that crypto-currency uses. But that's not true for the vast majority of software and digital items which require a trivial amount of energy. It's been brought up that on platforms like PS5, some games can get to 150+ GB, which might mean a lot of secondary storage if you have a lot of those. But again, that's a small matter compared to the vast majority of games out there. And NFT/high fidelity gaming is something I generally don't take part in. For the most part, digital games are significantly more green friendly as they limit manufacturing, shipment, packaging waste, in exchange for what amounts to trivial electrical expenditure when compared to actually running the software - physical or digital, it's all about reading data.

But on blockchain/tokens technology, I don't disagree.