Digital gaming has made previous gen games more accessible than ever. That just a fact. Physical gaming made more games obsolete due to new consoles etc. Now you can just DL from a game library for peanuts and play classics on your newest console. There's good and bad in everything I believe. You can still think they should keep physical but I had to say this...

My problem is I'm never tryna pay more than 50 for a game. If I'm desperate for a new release, I just rent it, otherwise I'll play through my backlog until I can grab it for cheap off ebay. Then I resell it once I'm done or if I don't like it.

From next gen I won't be able to do either

I doubt there'll be a HUGE tech leap between ps5 and 6 so I'm happy to wait out till the end of next gen to grab ps6 once all the good games are out. PS5 will be my first and last day one console purchase

If anyone thinks the concerns people have about this announcement are limited to gaming, they're just being disingenuous or willfully ignorant. There are many problems with corporations/publishers restricting or outright removing the option of media ownership and just one of them is the possibility of losing your ability to play a game if a server crashes or license expires. This started with music streaming and now it's infected everything.

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HAIL VALVE AND LORD GABEN

*Physical gaming made more games obsolete due to new consoles

*companies for some weird reason hating backward compatibility

Physical gaming had nothing to do with that. You can still play ps2 games on the fat ps3. My PS2 was the reason I could and did still finish ff7 lmao.

This is the reason why this thread is so long.

Multiple sectors of the entertainment industry getting rid of physical media ownership sets a bad precedent.

Now we’re talking.

People really choose to stream music!

Some of yall really think this is a “well the data proves a majority of people don’t buy physicals, and neither did I, so I’m okay with it”

As if this doesn’t have a more broader effect of market manipulation, and monopolization of the video game industry.

Expand your knowledge beyond yourself and your capitalist narcissism

Guess this kills any hope people had for GTA VI having a physical release in the future.

the s*** youd have to say to get a perma ban. they prob deserve it

“Oh no people saying insane f***ed up s*** won’t be able to game with me anymore”

Naw man they’re gonna be on this sort of timing

If they finally disc made print disc of older games

Also the data is skewed unless you take a proper sample of games available on both

Digital ownership

Animal consumption and military highest reasons. Carpet bombing Palestine more in a small area than Hiroshima doesn’t help . Game boxes of physicals isn’t the issue . Ai data centers ramp it up too

Again this generation the disc also often wasn’t ownership because required download or install / patches . Licensing issues can take a lot from us

lmao crazy to see companies still having issue licensing from studiocanal

“Buy physical it’s cheaper!”

F*** these guys

Anywhere else I can get silent hill for Xbox cheaper? Wanted to replay them.

gamestop preowned got homecoming for 19.99 you liar.