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Cobretti2 on 07 September 2025
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Phenomajp13 said:
Cobretti2 said:

I won't tag as responding to a few earlier response.

Yes the carts may be slow, and yes you may have to copy to internal to play it faster. But at the end of the day if the gaming industry wants us to embrace digital they need to make it user friendly to be treated as something that I own and can do what I want with it.

I don't want to be virtual ejecting games from one console to another. If my account is logged in on my consoles it should just work.

If my console fails and I buy another one I should be able to simply plug in my external with my games on it and be able to play it.

I mean what exactly is so restrictive about digital? We are just playing the games, so how exactly do you feel like you don't own them? Are you not playing them?

It also doesn't help that you complain about digital lacking something that physical lacks also. You don't want to eject virtual cards but that's exactly what you would do with a physical game lol. You are essentially upset you can't rip them off lol, why wouldn't they attempt to block that? Just because a game is digital doesn't mean they owe an unlimited amount of copies, you have to eject the game so you can't play the game on another console at the same time, that would be like owning two copies of the game. Do you get two copies of a game when you purchase it physically? 

Steam let's me install my games on multiple devices. It is tied to your login not your hardware. If I want to play it on my desktop at home I can. If I want to travel and take my laptop with my games I can.

If my hardware dies, I simply buy new hardware log into steam and can just install the games.

The problem is longevity as modern consoles no longer become a device for retro gamers.

Say I like the Wii U for example and the game experience it offered. I got all my games digital, the services are now off in my country for Wii U. If my Wii U dies, I am screwed. I can no longer redownload the games nor can I use backups to put them on another Wii U (say a second hand I bought one). This is a big issue.

At least with Wii U discs, I can play those games on any Wii U.  

All I want if games are to be digital only on consoles, is for them to be easy to manage as I could with retro consoles.