Anything physical will eventually decay or become broken beyond repair. Ultimately as time passes the very few remaining working copies and the hardware needed to run them, will end up in the hands of rich collectors or behind glass cases in museums. At that point nobody will actually play the games or use the systems anymore, since it would be just to risky to do so. Then eventually as more time passes, they will eventually decay and become entirely lost. Sadly it will happen to every single physical copy of the game, including any that you own. Every type of format that games have been published on over the past 50 years, will have reached a point of decay and degradation, within the next 250 years or so. Some of those not on a cartridge or hardware, will likely be gone within a century. Digital on the other hand has the benefit of allowing you to continually make as many copies of any game you like and store that data, without any degradation to the game itself. It along with emulating the hardware that's needed to run the game (emulators) are pretty much the only way that will ensure a way to preserve them in the long term, while still allowing anyone access to play them and at very little cost (if any). I'm pretty certain that the Internet or any similar successor to it, will be around for a very long time after we are all long gone. As such there will always be several people in the future with a copy of any game no matter how obscure it is, along with a emulator to play it on. This will likely be by future collectors of digital retro games and/or library's that are comprised of old retro games. Some people might not like what I'm about to say, but currently "piracy" is actually doing far more in the way of preserving games and allowing people full access to old retro games, than anyone else is managing to do ATM.

@@fafski1199You can make digital copies from physical copies.

Always thought this. Another reason why I never really bought physical post Wii.

SPOT ON! I found it funny when John was talking about the depth of field being removed from TLOU 2 remaster and then Rich said "Well, they can just patch that"... hypocrisy at its finest lmfao.

I agree. I mostly play on Xbox or via the Xbox app on pc (even beyond game pass, Xbox play anywhere titles (buy once, play on console and pc) are nice), but when I buy outside of Xbox I usually go with GOG, because they’re DRM free. Picked up Horizon Zero Dawn on GOG, for example.

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@@Satansclawps3oops. Corrected

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In the Netherlands it’s nearly impossible to find physical copies of Xbox games in brick and mortar stores. I do understand MS will go sll digital knowing retailers stopped selling your games all together. At least in the Netherlands that’s the case

@@DarshUK1VULFENSHTINE

Yeah, we'll see - of course they were going to do first person.

​@@techsamurai11For sure, but I think they chose first person for more than just "we're good at making those kind of games." If they went 3rd person, you'd have uninformed people calling it a Tomb Raider or Uncharted wannabe, not understanding those games took inspiration from Indy to begin with.

​@corey2232 that's a cop out. Games get called copycat all the time. That's no reason to not make it a 3rd person game. Gamers have been wanting a 3rd person Indiana Jones game for a long time. They will not be able to connect to the Indiana Jones story in a first person game.

@@yomamasohot6411 yeah, I made the analogy of imagining games where you can't see Spiderman, Geralt, Nathan Drake, Lara Croft etc. They are going for a hybrid first person as opposed to a hybrid 3rd person. I think animating Indy in 3rd person while playing would have been awesome. Sure, it would have been harder than animating Senua and the camera is a pita but I think it would have been worth it.

And aperently over 20 people that worked on the first Darkness too. MG seems to have gotten even more big talent , they should keep them for the next game as well , with will be most likely Wolfenstein 3 .

Same I have Xbox and Xbox 360 games that I play on series x if they removed the drive ,how are we gonna play

Exactly. Smart people.

They will move away from it. They want everything to be digital rights:l

This is why you should have moved on to digital years ago. Now your physical media is holding you down. I've not bought a physical game since ps360 era (and even then most were digital). So now every new console I just log in with my account and all my library is there. I cringe seeing all the hurdles people have to jump through with their ancient discs, which will be more and more problematic in the future.

Exactly if the digital games were $15-$20 less than $50-$70 physical equal yep I'd consider some games here and there digital.

LOVED that game. Not so keen on the sequel

@DocRobotnik I agree, the sequel was too arcadey. It strayed too far from the dark and gritty tone of the original. Hopefully we get a reboot at some point. 🙏

OG Star Breeze was incredible. Escape from Butcher Bay is still such a fun game from them too.

​@@narcissist97The Darkness 2 was still WAAAYYY better than it had any right to be.

John's wife must hate him man. All the toys he buys. Haha I'm rich so the wife doesn't care but I also donate a dollar for everyone I waste. I don't claim income tax on donations either. John argues without research alot too haha. Cracks me up. Remember his sepia tone camera period? Hahah. The guys are great. I'm just kidding.

I was literally watching a Escape from Butcher Bay longplay last week. Shame that it's once again unavailable for purchase due to licensing issues 😑

Now I wanna play those Riddick games too

Really? For me it felt like Ai generated mess.

@@GameTechLeadI agree. It looks like a casual afternoon for Midjournery.

Definitely looks like AI art.

@@ThisisCitrusan AI could never get something that detailed and varied in one image

And changed the names of the films. 😂

Amen brother

Actually it doesn't. Game doesn't exist anywhere else anymore.

I save way more sharing the price of a digital game with one of my friends or family than you get back on trade ins and you both get to play the game at the same time that way. Plus I still own every single game I’ve bought since I moved on from buying discs.

Game mainly sell merch now.

​@@rickylovesyou but if a large retailer is seeing numbers that indicate that used game sales are not profitable then how long till other companies see the same thing.

this

how tf did they miss that. embarrassing to watch

@@MoltenPie It's a mistake in the benchmarker's description, which Rich recognized @ 1:39:20

@@MoltenPie The video is labeled incorrectly as Radeon 7, and not only do they notice the mistake, but they talk about it at length and correctly identify the iGPU. How tf did you miss that? Embarrassing to read.

@@stefansamoyloff3866 I watched the whole thing, mr. toxic. and it doesn’t change the fact none of them doubted the results before going “wow omg”. they should have removed that part or added a disclaimer

You have truly mastered life once you can appreciate the little things.

You eat in your bed?

@@johnboylan3832 I do. No crumbs though.🤣

I wish he were my boss. What an amazing job to have.

He got lucky last night 😏

I actually disliked how Rich laughed about Linux Gaming. They are quite knowledgeable about graphics but are quite biased about OS related topics. But i am disappointed about Alex in particular. He is supposed to be the PC expert in the round. But his claims about the proprietary part being responsible for the big performance are plain wrong. John on the other hand might surpass both of them at some point.

@aladdin8623 wow that is super negative. Hard disagree.

@@mattmaas5790 I am a big fan of DF. But legit critique should be allowed. And the DF team proved to accept, improve and grow on these in the past. My hopes are to see them correcting things again. This is true greatness and not framing legit critique as "super negative" out of a blind sentiment.

To remove any ambiguity, it could be called the Archive Edition. Everything on disk, all patched up to the final version. No further downloads required. All in a nice steel case to differentiate it from ordinary GOTYs or other "complete" versions that still require downloads to become as complete as advertised.

Only thing I dislike about current physical media for games is that the manuals aren't being done (physically) anymore... One of my greatest joys back in the day was opening up the game box (PC) or case and picking up the big manual to read it. Two of my favorite game manuals of all time were the first Little Big Planet one (made to look like an old notebook) and the Metal Gear Solid 4 one (absolutely huge and even had a little comic inside to talk about Metal Gear Online).

They are up there with Insomniac in regards to optimisation!

It's certainly cromulent!

Ninja Theory is no longer an indie game studio. Microsoft owns them now.

Machine games is building the Indiana Jones game

​@@inamorta47-playertwistthey're not making Indiana Jones

I see that some people didn't get the joke. :)

​@@inamorta47-playertwist you didnt get the joke...

Yeah, apparently it's preventing games from running on the Steam Deck

​@@rodrolliv that's false

not that old. enigma is now in monster hunter rise

@@rodrolliv it's been debunked already

Meh

Thank goodness my life is alot more full and fulfilling. Just entertainment to me.

@@chrisbullock6477to be fair man, most of us are at work Monday mornings so having something fun to listen to on the side is nice

work from home for some of the game studios here in NC. Totally understand. You the man! @@carbonfibercarpet4655

@@chrisbullock6477 good for you?

​@@chrisbullock6477copium

Thought the same! Im excited the most for Indy!

It would be even better to have a third person mode so you can see Indie sneaking behind stuff and kicking butt in a cool way. Also the graphics look about 2 generations old. Hopefully they work on that.

​@@robertlawrence9000 lol fake

@@alexandre6441 not fake. Look at the faces and those eyes. They need to work on that.

@@robertlawrence9000 ok, but you didn't specify that you were talking about face and eyes, I agree with that, we already saw this on PS4 About the rest, DF states that it is a graphic spectacle, john stated this on his Twitter a few times

This is a much better argument with awareness than "oh my poor box title is going away" - Bravo sir

"I'm honestly convinced that the vast majority of gamers remain single guys, " uh... what? Also, there is nothing stopping you from sharing your accounts.

"Been on xbox since the OG," My condolences

@@Michael-jr3gz for what? Lol

@@Dxllnhe’s a ps fanboy that’s so salty he thinks owning an Xbox means you’re a fool. He’s just projecting.

@@TheBean87 I figured he was a fanboy but does he not realize some people own multiple consoles lol I have a PS4 as well

@@Dxlln it wouldn’t matter to him, you talking about Xbox just makes his salty blood boil.

This would be awesome.

MachineGames has been using id Tech for their games, which uses OpenGL and Vulkan, not DX at all (aside from Xbox, where it is required). So probably none? Unless they have been ported to Vulkan. And IF MG still uses id Tech, not sure if that is even confirmed.

I’m in the same boat, I’m 100% digital but taking away the option isn’t the way to go.

If you download a game you own it on physical media

Digital is just another format . We have to make sure that when we buy something digital that we get to keep it😮

Man but Xbox has a very, very reliable digital ecosystem

@@Raiyekiu that may be true but never remove options from your consumer base. Especially if the competition isn't doing likewise.

How many physical xbox games do you think the average xbox owner has?

​@@coliander4180irrelevant

It will likely get a limited physical release at some point.

Unfortunately MS seems to be leading the way in driving the industry into the ground when it comes to physical.

At launch...... A physical collector's edition will probably release later

[Senua starts screaming uncontrollably]

True. Level design is what's key, which is where I have my doubts that it will be anything close to the level of Metroid Prime. Hope I am proven wrong.

insanely terrible*

Not really, it was super blurry and low res even in a letterboxed 30fps format. Indiana Jones and Avowed looked a lot better

@@Michael-jr3gz sorry Michael it only looked bad to you because you had jealous tears in your eyes skewing your vision.

Nah, he's right. Graphics might be good but the gameplay (or lack thereof)looks terrible, same with the first game, I couldn't bring myself to finish it beacse there is no fun gameplay in that game. Detroit Become Human was more of a game than Hellblade, and I'm gunna he honest, as somone who picked up Series X on launch day, I'm not sure I'm even gonna check it ou when it relaeses on gamepass​@@TheBean87

12 TF power ähm Ms downgrades incoming

That was due to Covid. All the in person stuff needed for this game ie mo cap, landscape data was put on hold due to the pandemic.

Also Unreal 5 didn't fully launch for developers until a couple years after the CGI trailer

I'm not sure if he actually was, but rude if true

It was a joke.

Yeah its possible that it'll run really fast as well but that's a developer choice to make assets etc light weight as possible but then there's Id's amazing CPU threading

Dr. I. Krappenschitz has retired, his wife Ms. Pia Krappenschitz will ask further questions

And whats funny about this is that he praised Forspoken design but heavily criticised Stellar Blade, even if the model used for the game is a real person. He's just more one in that crowd of people who uses 'unsuitable for modern audiences' when he sees something he doesn't like or isn't aligned with his vision of how things should be.

I dig the Stellar Blade character design myself, looking forward to playing it. I’ll never understand this recent disdain people have for beautiful women in art.

@@BlindBison They follow an agenda, definetely, even if they aren't open about it. It's kind of a bummer because I like Alex and his content, but this comment was insuferable.

@@HoroJoga You'll find just as many people to complain about a female character who doesn't look good enough according to their standards. If your character is deemed not attractive enough you're a woke activist, if they're designed to be attractive you're a mysogynist. People are stupid.

He is excited to meet Indy's counterpart...

Seems a physical media add-on is a little pointless honestly when half the discs for Xbox this generation don’t even have the actual game on disc. I purchased Horizon and Halo then switched to digital. They also include the PC version which is great.

@@robf if we dismiss things like this as pointless then it'll just kill physical media quicker.

I think Microsoft's thinking is that since those are backwards compatibility titles and are on gamepass, they are more available than whatever discs are still floating around.

@@AaronLDeWolf You're too generous. MS is a corporation; their interest is in selling games. Even selling consoles is just an unprofitable step towards selling games. The secondhand market is only advantageous to them if the prospect of secondary value drives more sales of new games than it loses.

@@concinnus fair enough but I was addressing your concern regarding the accessibility issue. The disc-less version of the game is more accessible than the disc version of the game. In order to play the disc game you have to have the disc and a working 360. While the game pass version works on Xbox one, series, PC and any device that supports xbox cloud gaming.

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Yeah. I think Xbox is forgetting alot about the casual market which dominate sales charts. Those gamers that only buy Madden, FIFA, COD, GTA and Hogwarts Legacy. Especially something like Hogwarts and Sports games you know there are a bunch of parents and grandparents that are buying that as Christmas gifts.

How do you find physical media for PC games? And what about 3rd parties that keep releasing major AAA games digital-only? Alan Wake 2 & BG3 not launched digital-only, though BG3 eventually launched an $80 physical version after the game blew up in popularity

Startling discovery 😄

Yeah, I appreciate gameplay reasons for a small world but I still think there are better solutions. For example, if showing a whole city is too much, then the game could just show a portion with the rest out of bounds.

@@MRTOWELRACK That's not possible in open world games though. They have to strike a balance between shrinking down everything and making things large enough that they don't appear ridiculous.

Blu-Rays cost something like $3 to make. A flash cart of the same capacity will never get as cheap.

Best way to start the week ❤

Yeah, ion kno how anyone can say sth like that when the first game also had dogshit combat system.

nOtHiNg MoRe

@@mechanicalmonk2020 Ok you're right, it's also a cool UE5 tech demo.

It's a sony-like game, except sony games have worse graphics lmao.

@@D-D-- Except those "Sony games" also have extremely refined combat and gameplay loops.