Hi.

It's kind of funny that i have been a gamer my whole life and yet i dont really have any friends that share the same passion as i do about it.

so i can never really talk about subjects like this,they just dont understand it sooo..it's all up to you  now!

Since sony announced that their ending physical games i have been on a little crusade(can i call it that?)buying spree of getting a physical addon for the ps5 and buying a shitton of physical games,however now that my you could say angry emotions have calmed down i have started to think about it a lot more if its even worth it?

My launch ps1 still works perfectly fine,however by all the gods of gaming in noo way do i see my ps5 last 25-30 years from now.

One of the biggest shocks i got in recent weeks is to find out the ssd that holds the ps5 OS is SOLDERT on the board,when that ssd dies, its bricked,nothing can be done about it.

As someone who collects games and tries my utter most best to maintain all my console's until my end i feel it doesnt matter what i will do,ps5 wont last me 20years,let alone 30 or 40.

I now feel a sense of regret, spending about   thousand euro these last month or so on physical games/ssd,maybe i should have spend it on buying some cool ps2 games, or 1, or xbox or buy a gamecube with skies of arcadia and just....just..well...buy ps5 games.d..d..d..d..digital(on sale ofc)

I'am verry conflicted.

And yea i know almost 40 year old dude crying about a piece of plastic heared that hundreds of times dont worry i know! Haha.

Soo, is collecting for the ps5 even worth it?

I can own them, play them, and enjoy them, so yes, to me that makes them worth having.

Well the PS5 has been hacked on lower firmwares and it's quite possible that it'll be hacked on later firmwares in the next 10-20 years before the longevity becomes an issue.

I can feasibly see a CFW being modded to boot from the replaceable M2 slot SSD instead in case of widespread internal SSD failure.

Specialist repair shops will probably be able to desolder and solder on a new SSD anyway.

I don't see much reason to expect PS5 consoles to have a much shorter working lifespan than PS4 or PS3. It's going to be a long time before you can't find a working PS5.

I actually didnt think about that,good point..hmm thx! 

Yeah. They're physical games. They're your property. And assuming you take care of your system and games, they'll probably outlast a lot of digital stuff on PSN, and you don't have to worry about your purchases being subjected to digital oblivion because a license expired or you lost your account or whatever other dumb reasons digital copies can just up and go *poof*. While I'm not getting a PS6, I am still supporting physical games on PlayStation while I can. And there will still be a second-hand market for five generations of physical PlayStation games to choose from in the future.

yes, i have PS5 fat disc, i love buting physical games.

Your disc drive will most probably fail before the SSD.

Look at it this way, that huge spending you just did can be returned to you at some point if you'd like by selling the games. I have spent well over a thousand dollars lifetime on PlayStation digital games, and I'll never have a way to get that money back. I have some physical games too, but I'm mostly digital on PS5.
Any more physical games you get I would highly recommend focusing mainly on games that are complete on the disc. Off the top of my head, I think the only PS5 discs I have that requires a download are Gran Turismo 7 and Jedi Survivor. I don't think any PS4 discs I have required internet.
This site is fantastic
https://www.doesitplay.org/
If you ever get banned from PSN, PlayStation shuts down, or such you will still be able to play the physical games (that don't require internet). Sony bricking consoles is extremely rare, as bans for an online account are usually sufficient when you break their terms of service.

I mean, the games you have from 2020 and releasing till December 31, 2027, aren't suddenly bad just because Sony's getting rid of discs for new games. Just buy the games you'd wanna buy/collect.

Sure, the OCD in me hates that I won't be able to buy every physical PS5 game I'll wanna play over the course of the PS5's lifetime, but I'll still have 7 years worth of physical games I wanted.

The answer is going to depend on the person. As someone who permanently switched to PC, I hate that I have physical discs that I will never touch again taking up space on my shelves. I am more than satisfied to have that aspect of gaming behind me.