You can still get modern games on a bluray, but people started valuing convenience in the moment over everything else. That’s why digital-only consoles got so huge, on top of being cheaper.
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoJust put the disc in and shut the lid. I don’t know what these downloads people are talking are
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even with the PS4, the bluray couldn’t play the game.
It had to install to the internal drive and download updates
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Makes sense, blurays are at like 50MB/s read, at least you could keep the disc and share it
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Downloads have been a thing for a couple years now.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hell yeah. We should be boycotting them for taking our physical media, because it breeds complacency and that’s how they steal from us. You will own nothing and eat bugs.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I mean… you can still use physical media for games, just prepare for it to be awfully slow unless it’s like a tiny indie game or something low-fi. As for the console makers, they still offer non-digital models. Idk who’s “they” in this instance,
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree, but being that you can buy a 256gb SSD from Walmart for $17.99, I’d like to see a new complete game purchase at $67.99 that you just plug the SSD into the top of the console and press a button to turn it on. SSD loads and has the entire contents of a completed game without need for internet access. If it doesn’t work, they didn’t ship a complete game and should be liable for refunding/replacing the product you bought from them.
Sure they are sata drives, but you really shouldn’t need something faster to play a game, as everything can go to the consoles RAM/GPU’s memory and then store back to the drives, meaning they could cut internal storage if needed as well. Stick the drives in cases, put on your games rack. Id like it. Maybe I’m not the main demographic though.
ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, back to cartridges. Honestly I’d be totally fine with that- but the issue isn’t quite with my end. Some game is made, and is sold for $70. A disc costs under a dollar to produce. A cart is significantly more, and digital is just paying upkeep on a server. Digital has the highest profit margin, and carts the lowest. Discs are great for physical distribution.
That said, I would totally love collector editions in the form of a figurine with storage media built in.