Support Physical Games

[Sogreblute]

BraLoD said:

Sogreblute said:

This announcement made me not want to buy anymore PS4 or PS5 games. Even if they reverse course (which I doubt) I still won't buy anymore PS4/PS5 games. I'll just stick with PC, Xbox Series X and Switch 2 for modern gaming.

I always buy my games physically for console and sometimes digitally if the price is right (mostly handhelds) and I love collecting retro. After I get the last remaining games for my PS3 from the PS Store before it closes I'm done with modern Playstation. I'll just stick with my good old retro PS consoles.

It's very undestanstadable to be mad at Sony, which I am so, so very much.

But if you buy most games physically, as I do, how is going to PC, a platform as close to 100% digital as possible, or sticking with Series X, where most Microsoft own games come incomplete or entirely missing aside from a key to download on the disc, be much better?

Playstation was the last place where having a big physical collection made sense, most Switch 2 games are mostly an empty plastic case with a download key as well.

Sure, there will still be some physical games outside of Playstation, mostly Nintendo first party games tho, but Sony is pretty much killing physical gaming aside from Nintendo first party games, there is nowhere to run to solve it, sadly.

PC is different where you can actually own your game digitally. I love physical, but digital ownership is also just as important. Also on PC you're not locked to one store to buy your games you have key sites, digital stores like Steam and GOG, and DRM free sites. You also have the ability if you wish to burn games to a disc. You can pirate / emulate games and actually own them. There are a lot of Xbox games that are fully on disc that I think a lot of people underestimate. Playstation has more yes, but Xbox has a good chunk.

I know over half Switch 2 physical games are key cards, but there's still a good chunk on card and there's more to come. The gap between key cards and regular cards shrunk, so we're getting close to that 50/50. When there's a Switch 2 game that's a key card, but it's also on Switch 1 I just get the Switch 1 version such as Octopath 0, Dragon Quest 1&2 HD, etc.

If a game I want isn't physically on disc/cart I just get on PC. Digital ownership is more important now than ever and I think everyone needs to fight for that on consoles since we're going to that all digital future.