Cerebralbore101 said:
Norion said:
I certainly didn't see this happening this fast. In my view the PS6 being digital only or not was basically a coin flip but not only does this confirm it will be digital only Playstation in general will be digital only after 2027. Xbox will naturally be following suit so that'll just leave Nintendo though I fully expect them to do this same move some time next decade. I knew that the 2030's would be the death of physical video games but man based on how the past year has gone that's gonna be on death's door by the end of this one. Anyone who still values ownership should go with PC going forward since that's digital only but the situation there is much better compared to a digital only console. |
PC doesn't have ownership either, though. At least not outside of GoG. LudicrousSpeed said:
Personally, I love this. One of two things will happen.
One, and most likely, Xbox and Nintendo follow suit, games are more expensive, no second hand market, no one bats an eye, indie and AA games become much more attractive.
Two, Xbox and Nintendo don’t follow suit, Sony gets shit pushed in badly, we get another gen of redemption Sony à la PS3 gen, which happens to be the last gen Sony was worth a shit when it comes to making games.
Win/win |
Xbox has been making fake physical copies of their 1st party games for a decade now. If you have a game that says both Xbox One and Xbox Series on the cover then you have a game disc that only has the Xbox One version on the disc. Indiana Jones, Doom 3, and several other 1st party Xbox games are just 1MB stubs that call home from the internet to download the rest of the game. CaptainExplosion said:
I just wish Nintendo released their modern AND classic games through one time purchases to eShop, instead of us having to subscribe to their classic library. |
The sucky thing is that Nintendo Online pales in comparison to actual copies running on real hardware. Their Switch Online Emulators are lazy and inaccurrate even by software emulator standards. And the selection is trash compared to what we had on the Wii's Virtual Console. |
Game selection is certainly a step down from Wii Virtual Console. And N64/GC really need to improve their emulation (input lag is terrible for example). The rest? They are pretty good in terms of accuracy. Their GBA emulator for example passes every GBA accuracy check flawlessly, something almost none of the most popular GBA emulators can do. NES and SNES seem to be improved versions of the the NES/SNES Classic Mini ones, which were already pretty good emulators. GB/GBC runs great too.
