Burning Typhoon on 22 November 2014
| Sentient_Nebula said: For me, there's 2 main reasons I prefer retail over digital 1: More freedom with the game. I can lend it to a friend or sell it used. Much more convenient than the way to lend digital games (Create account on friend's console, then download the whole game, then delete it if someone else wants to play it on another console. For handhelds, it's not possible at all, as they only have 1 account) 2: They generally cost less. A $60 game on PSN or Xbox Live is going to stay at $60 indefinitely, only dropping temporarily during occasional sales. Disc-based games often start dropping in price as little as a week after launch. I buy my retail games from Amazon (no sales tax) So even at launch, I'm paying exactly the same as for a digital game, plus get the benefits as listed above. Only way to make me go all-digital is to make digital games cost less than their disc-based counterparts. |
1. My friends and I just bring the entire console with us when we go somewhere. IF one of us has digital games the other one doesn't, that we'll actually play. In my case, I have all the games my friends have, except PS all stars. But, bringing over one game or two makes more sense than the whole console.
2. That just isn't correct. I bought GTAV for 30 bucks. I bought tomb raider for 10 dollars. I bought many disc retail games that were 60, for five. Games do drop in price digitally, they just don't drop at the same time as retail. I specifically listed everything i bought from PSN this year for a reason.
