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And as someone else pointed out in a different thread. No reselling disks or giving to friends.

Everyone has to buy their own downloaded copy per account.

And they dont have to soend the money for the reader. And the game company doesnt have to distribute hardware and can take more profit from the retailers.

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slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Great chance to lay off thousands of retail workers ❤️

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- ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We never had game shops around me that look like the ones we saw online in other countries, those looked like relatively cool places to have around. I also once told a friend coming from the US to buy me a whole bunch of used games from a Gamestop and I was amazed how cheap they were. We only had overpriced originals or super cheap pirated games here, used cheap originals were neat.
  
  I wouldn’t hang out in such a place as an adult (and I’m icked by retail-as-community-space) but maybe as a teenager it would have seemed nice. Just being able to ask the people working there for opinions or recommendations was probably a big part of how games work for people I’d imagine.
  
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
At that point why not just play it on PC? Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet? (Or worse, play via a launcher?)

Also, are the games gonna be cheaper now that they don’t need to produce the disks and packaging, transport them, store them in warehouses, stock them on shelves, etc.?

If supply and demand were a real science, this would represent infinite supply, right? So, wouldn’t you expect the price to approach 0.00?

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- BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  People already were, only 15% of PlayStation users are buying physical media.
  
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- Nukola@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Never gonna happen, lol (I’m ironic, that’s a tragedy).
  
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- kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet?
  
  Are you seriously asking? Because I’ve seen time and time again, the answer to those kinds of questions seems to be yes. I think most people just don’t care, and they don’t need to, they’ll only buy a few games in a console’s lifespan to play for multiple years, and they’ll either just pick up what’s popular, or whichever one has a game they want to play.
  
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  - wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Do they realize they can get their favorite console’s controller with a USB cable so they can still use it to play on their PC?
    
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    Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nope. If you ever need a reality check, use your own family as a basline.
    
    I’m sometimes reminded there are two Teslas in our family.
    
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