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Cerebralbore101 on 28 July 2025
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Pemalite said:


But this is also an even more catastrophic issue for me with Xbox.
About this time last-generation I had about 200 physical games easily on my shelf for Xbox One.
Xbox Series? I have about 40. - No point me buying a game like Oblivion remastered if it's on PC, it's cheaper, runs better, looks better -and- it's digital only. - If it's digital only, I'll just buy it on PC exclusively.

Switch actually dominated my wallet and game collecting the last few years... And even though the Switch 2 has started poorly with only a couple of games being "collectable" (Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart World, Tears of the Kingdom and Cyberpunk with Donkey Kong dropping a month later) there isn't that prolific release cadence of 3rd party's releasing full released cart games. - It's E-Waste Game Key Cards/Code in a box dominating the shelf, which makes my choice easier.

I don't see myself spending anywhere near the same level of cash that I did with the Xbox One/Playstation 4/Switch consoles due to the fall of physical and rise of digital, in essence I am being pushed out of the console market... And that's fine as well... More focus will be towards my PC.


I feel your pain here. I have to special-order games like Clair Obscure from Canada just to get a physical copy. Doom 3 I was looking forward to but it's just a 5MB stub on disc. I want to buy so many Switch 2 games but a ton of them are key-card only. I'm being pushed out of the modern console market for pretty much anything other than Nintendo games and boutique stuff. 

I don't mind buying stuff on PC, but only if it's heavily discounted and only if I'm damn good and ready to play it. What's the point of buying a game digitally just to let it sit in a backlog of shame, when you can buy it anytime in the future? With physical games I often buy them just to know I have them and won't have to hunt them down years later. Denuvo and other DRM issues really keep me from buying a lot of stuff on PC. 

But anyway to take this back to the topic at hand, with PS6 I'll be forced to skip it because I doubt it will even have a disc drive. So no exclusives. No disc drive. That's not a console anymore. Maybe Sony will surprise me with a PS6 disc drive attachment but even if they do, how many publishers are going to properly support it?