Support Physical Games

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BraLoD said:

Sogreblute said:

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.

PC is great because once a game is available there it hardly will be completely lost as people will preserve it one way or another. But as far as actual ownership goes GoG is there for it, I wish it was more successful. Steam have DRM free games but the ratio must be very small. It does have them tho, yes. None of it solves actual physical onwership tho.

Good to know more NS2 games are getting actual physical releases, recently I got to know even some games like Indiana Jones which only has an incomplete disc version on XBS/PS5 got an actual complete release on cart. But it's still far from optimal, at least it does have a big GKC disclaimer in the front so we can avoid it easily.

I would like to also mention backwards compatibility. It's basically guaranteed on PC, whereas on consoles you're at the mercy of the console manufacturer. At the moment it's looking pretty good in this regard on PlayStation (although only if you've bought digital), but each generation is still a risk, and Sony has clearly demonstrated several times in the past that backwards compatibility is not all that important for them if it gets in the way of other things. Some of us won't care about this, but some of us do. Personally I have a huge backlog, and I might play some games 10-20+ years after release, so this does matter to me.