Walmart appears to be purging Xbox games starting next week.
Physical gaming media needs to continue to be Part of the conversation imo
Physical games are the foundation of the argument. Every time, a digital game dies, physical gaming is brought up.
I will go digital if I have to if there is no physical port. I believe in a sense of owner ship and in the picture the collection collectors like to show and brag about their collections. Unlike digital which if a studio loses the license the game gets pulled from all digital formats like when Activision lost the license to the Transformers games. I own Transformers Fall and War for Cybertron physical. meaning I can still play them any time I want. I know they can still be accessed digitally on the account if a person bought them. But new players can't do that and if the account gets hacked or banned then a person is screwed on those digital games. Also I have found that the physical cousins tend to go cheaper then digital which rarely goes dirt cheap. I bought KH3 new physically at Best Buy for $10 I think it still full price on Playstation. Stores want to get rid of those games whether thrift stores, box stores, even pawnshops. I hate digital there is no sense of owner ship all I am doing is buying a license and if the game is crap then I am screwed out of that money. If I get the physical port and the game is crap I can trade it in towards another games. Can't do that with digital games. And there are countries if a certain game only comes out in Asia or Australia and doesn't hit North America whether digital or physical I can still import the game. I imported Summer Lesson from Asia so I can play it because Namco did not release it to North America. Hence why physical is better yet again. And physical was also great because I could by certain Xbox games cheap to play them on my XB1. But games going strictly digital only will only hurt the game. I would buy Alane Wake 2 but no disc no sale. As for Hellblade 2 again no disc no sale in my books. If games ever go strictly to digital only I am done with gaming I will only stick to older consoles.
Agreed. I just don't see why physical games need to go anywhere. If I have to be charged a little extra for what I want I don't mind I'm willing to as I know there's cost involved. Physical is better in every way except having to get up to switch a disc(which is just a bs reason if I ever heard one). There's room for both formats stop trying to kill physical.
While physical games are a tangible item with resale value, often what you are paying for now, is the license to play the software, which can be rescinded by the publisher. Furthermore, since the 7th generation of consoles, there has been a culture of releasing games with bugs and glitches, with the mentality of, we can patch it later, sometimes to the point of games having day 1 patches larger than the game itself. Hell, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 only had the tutorial on the disc, Truth is, once you lose access to the digital updates to a lot of modern games, dating back to when the whole launch now patch later stuff started, you could be left with an incomplete game with game breaking glitches and bugs.
6th gen gaming and back are golden though.
Just out curiosity. If I'm offline and I install one of my many disc based ps5 games and begin to play it OFFLINE. Can the publisher still take away the license to play? 🤓
I guess not but without going online and getting the game's updates, you could be playing a version that you can't complete due to game breaking bugs or something.
I wonder how many people set their PS5s offline, when Sony was deleting people's Stellar Blade demos they accidentally released early, so they wouldn't lose it.
Ye, I know how it goes smh. Still have PT on my PS4 lol. But ye, that's why I don't purchase digitally. Makes it even easier for them to do those types of things.
Speaking of, there's this little movement happening for "The Crew". If any of y'all own the game then i suggest you take a look at Ross Scott's video and pitch in on getting the ball rolling.
The least they could have done is release a patch to enable offline play but it's obvious they're just trying to push people to buy the sequels.
But he's still firm that physical games aren't going away.
Gamers have the power and they are the Ives who will decide if physical stays or not.. physical is here to stay, but good that a guy like this confirms
Fking word. Physical is the key. People would be surprised because the misconceptions out there but there's a sh ton of us that still prefer this route
One high end console has always been a benefit. The other is no longer a necessity.
Only competition there ever was, was when one launched a year to a year and a half early. Based on this generation, the other would have to launch 2 to 4 years early just to compete. Because buying a huge part of the industry, having a multiple game sleep mode, cheaper in price, smaller form factor, supposedly having better BC and a day one subscription service, has still resulted in another huge ass kicking.
Yay for physical Take Two.
I wouldn't really call it competing when a company is dead last in sales when compared to the rival company. I will always stick around for physical copies of games. Moment games go all digital is the day I bring the SNES and Genesis out of hibernation and just stick to retro.
Hanzala from eXputer says, "Phasing out physical games can lead to game preservation concerns and a fleeting sense of ownership, and that is the last thing I want."
Physical games aren't being killed though sonybwas the first to allow small publishers to make print runs as low as 1k. Nintendo followed suit after switch released. Something showed Sony sales go 60 percent digital and 40 percent physical. Say whatbyou want but this day and age where alot of games are digital only and have a pre built advantage as far as digital vs physical.
For consumers on sonys system to buy 40 percent is fking impressive on our part. Have the games released don't even have a physical release. That tells me if every game still got a physical release, the physical game buyers would outnumber the digital buyers.
Example. How many people bought Alan wake 2 after being told no physical. Bet alot would of bought physical so there's an advantage(built in) for digital. Alan wake 2 was just a game out of many that don't have a physical release.
To all those that say physical is dying, l yall are crazy. Physical has issue on one console, said console manufacturer has been beating into its core audience that digital digital cloud digital. Of course they won't give a fk.
What I find interesting about all of this. Steam has been doing this since it was started. Their use to be a store called Software Ect. It had a ton of pc games. But steam killed that portion of the market. Pc physical games died decades ago. But people didn’t seem to care. Now that Xbox seems to be going the same route, all of a sudden it’s an issue.
I really believe in the next five years that Nintendo will be the last one standing when it comes to physical.
If games didn't get tied to your Steam account then the disc wouldn't become useless, that's likely the reason you don't see physical releases of PC games anymore. Once the game was installed the key was then useless for anyone else, so the only use the disc had was for reinstalling the game quickly instead of downloading it.
To have resale and physical games work again on PC, Steam would have to stop tying keys to an account.. I dunno that will happen, but I do recall there being a legal fuss a while back about trying to get Steam to allow the reselling of games, I haven't heard anything since.
Well I grew up in an era when the full game or any program was fully on the disc. That’s more what I’m talking about. I remember when steam came along and what they were pushing as an advantage was the security around their system. But it was the beginning of the physical PC game boxes. I remember selling pc games in the early 2000s and they still had the full program on disc. But it’s been a long while since I’ve seen any pc boxed games that aren’t a key. To top it off the disc business has really faded.
To be fair, those discs didn't even have the full game, imagine my shock when I tried to install Doom 2016 on PC, there was surprisingly little data on the CD.
If physical discs were still a thing on PC, I'd be buying my favourites, especially the collectors edition, but the choice isn't even there, I'm still shocked that PC gaming went that route and so quickly.
Well the other big nail in the coffin is that once the game is downloaded, you can’t play offline. Because if we could do that, then you could burn it or thumb drive it for storage and play it locally anytime without connecting.
If you go back to look who started that trend, it’s none other than Steam. They were the first to go all digital. Granted it was in response to theft of their games by hackers.
Yeah once digital age starts I'm reading the new fire and ice novels. Physical > Digital.
If your a regular Walmart shopper, which I am. I got one like 4 blocks from my house and as far as department stores it's all that's around. Like 4 of them. Anyway if you are you'll have noticed Walmart physical game selection has been kinda trash for years so it's no surprise they are getting rid of physical games. They've been heading down this road for years. I only buy physical games from there on clearance due to the selection being trash. I picked up Scarlett nexus I think for ps5 for 5 dollars clearance. A while ago.
Said it before buying physical games is best to do online, you have access to way more plus you can import which is nice since alot of these jackass American companies don't think Americans want physical anymore(this is based off like squareenix American division etc)
So I guess I'll be looking to see if they got anything good on clearance. Last game I bought new there was forbidden west and that's cause the ps5 and ps4 version were the same price 59.99 instead of ps5 being 69.99. Whether it was an error or not it saved me 10
Buying Xbox games? Game Pass...
“Walmart to start removing physical Xbox games in store starting with Starfield.“
“the supplier is funding this action“
Interesting.
You will own nothing.