Vice versa

@@parkerburrus289you don’t really own the when you buy digital. Lets say your account gets banned you dont own the game you purchased anymore

@@eeedddd5738 Why would anyone get banned unless they are an ass or a thief? Their concerns do not trouble me.

Do you have steam? That is all digital

@@sofajockeyUKIkr what a dummy

It’s bittersweet though because half the time the game isn’t even on the cartridge.

@@exeterfg actually most Nintendo switch games are on the cartridge fully and don’t require an Internet connection most of the time same with PS4 and PS5 discs There’s only select few third-party games that need Internet connection and are not on the cartridge. Do research before you comment next time.

​@@exeterfg, LIES 90% or Switch game cartridge are full games...

Hey no need to get so aggressive. I’m working on anecdotal evidence and willing to admit I don’t know the exact percentage of games that aren’t on the cart. My point was more so just that it does happen. My understanding is that the main reason a switch game isn’t fully on the cartridge is because there isn’t enough room on one, and the game devs/publisher don’t want to pay for two. If that’s true then the number of switch games not on the cartridge will probably only go up, because game file sizes just keep getting bigger.

the main issue is that companies like sony and microsoft have full control of the marketplace on their systems and will be able to set prices at whatever they see fit. pc has multiple means to play affordably and has much better sale prices e.g. steam sales. going all digital just gives companies the incentive to upcharge their games more since the only way to get it will be use their consoles marketplace or get it on pc

It’s hilarious everyone thinks Steam is immortal and they always get a pass!

@@luna3983 Steam sales have been a huge problem for me. My blacklog of games is insane. Also if you want your steam games to be physical just get a bunch of external harddrives. I have 4 microSD cards for my Steamdeck with almost 60 games installed on them. They all work off line and my deck is always put into off line mode and disconnected from wifi fi.

Don't compare PlayStation to your Filthy Steam

The thing is when a console embrace both physical and digital distribution nowadays digital always had the better sale cause customer would quickly buy that and download it for play immediately. For physical they had to make the disc/cart and put the entire game onto it and then sell it at retailers. Also not every retailer had shelf space for every physical games which is why most devs or companies that still embrace physical does limited physical release so those customers who want a physical copy could at least buy one. Remember back in 1983, the reason why there's a gaming crash was cause of low quality physical games. There are too much of them at retailers and there are more bad games than good games that back then customers just assume every games are bad so they aren't buying thus causing retailers to be unable to get the bad games out of store shelves and with manufacturers also couldn't get more games shipped to retailers cause nobody was ordering for anymore due to no shelf space. Nowadays thanks to digital, not every game gets a physical release saving shelf space for better games like Super Mario Odyssey, God of War, and Forza and if that game is a bad game like those asset flip games on Steam, PSN, Androids, Xbox, and the eShop then those games could immediately be delisted from those digital stores.

Unless they could miraculous fix the internet bandwagon to get games running without lags then will that be the day cloud gaming could work but I doubt they would be able to do that. The internet is a jumbo network filled with ads and pop-ups (a.k.a. interruptions) and as we know those ads and pop-ups are the reason why there are lags and latency in the first place. Networks could easily get rid of those ads and pop-ups but they don't want to cause the only real way to generate revenue of any kind online to keep server going was to embrace those ads and pop-ups. That's why websites such as KZfaq and Facebook continue to thrive while websites that hardly had any ads and pop-ups at all like GameRanking and GameWinners are dead and gone for good. GameFAQs is lucky it's now own by GameSpot and now had ads cause had it continue running without ads like it did in the 2000s and 2010s, it too would be dead also. Wikipedia is lucky it got donation support for their website but if the donation support someday ends, then they too would also had to turn to ads and pop-ups, once that happens that website too would be a laggy mess.

Just don't buy digital and they will release physical.

What are you talking about?

But it's hard to rent games now that Redbox isn't a thing anymore. The only way you can rent games is through GameFly

PlayStation 6

This "rumor" is just a sponsored smear campaign by Microsoft to push their multi trillion weight around to force the industry how they want The only physical media that is actually getting "discontinued" are the user burn discs in Japan only nothing more Remember the "firm" the rumors are coming from have tens of billions in Micro stock, meaning any good pr story they can make up increases their profit share

So where are you going to buy the console from

@@kingsleyjackson8287 obviously game stop if it's still around. Where you buying your phones and PCs from ?