Google Stadia and Microsoft's All-Digital Xbox could be the beginning of the end for physical media, and that worries us.
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CGM Writes: After seeing the new PlayStation exclusive, Astro Bot at Summer Game Fest, we give our take if it truly is as joyful as it looks.
Can't wait. Can never bring myself to delete the first one off my ssd even when I need space, its that good.
Im excited to buy this, just a simple fun platformer. Japan/Asobi is such an underutilized team, i hope this changes that cause they've honestly produced some of the funnest platformers outside the Mario series imo. I still replay puppeteer from time to time
I was thinking about Astro Bot and games they made sort of like it in the past and it reminded me of Puppeteer.
It came out at the very end of the PS3 generation so it didn’t get much attention as PS4 was right there. They really should remaster that game for PS5 it was a lot of fun.
With Future Games Show 2024 taking place last week, certain indie titles truly managed to stand out from the crowd.
“So although recent reports suggest that the PS5 will still have a disc drive, allowing it to thrive in developing markets where bandwidth is still an issue, it was inevitable that we would be seeing a non-disc version of a current or next gen console on the horizon.”
Why was that inevitable. There’s still no benefit or purpose in having a discless console. Xbox One SAD in particular reeks of halfassed decisions and just shows how bad an idea that concept is.
“And despite several setbacks and waning consumer interest, Sony continues to push its PlayStation Now service.”
Having the most successful game subscription service on the market is a sign of setbacks and waning consumer interest? What does that say about the lesser successful game subscription services?
“And whilst it’s heartening to learn that the new PS5 will have a disc drive and full backwards compatibility, there’s always the fear that we will just end up being sold games we already own, rehashed with better textures but none of the charm of the originals.”
So what if PS5 has remakes or remasters? There’s nothing stopping you from playing the original game if you still own it. That’s something irrational to be afraid of. Plus you make it sound like majority of released games don’t have the appeal of the original game when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“But as games are the only physical media we still buy nowadays, the risk of them going the way of books, CDs and DVDs has become very real, and that makes us nervous.”
You can still buy movies, TV shows, music, magazines, newspapers, books and comics physically. Same thing with gaming. No matter how pervasive digital distribution becomes, we’ve rarely seen any medium where the physical format of that medium has gone completely extinct.
Digital will always remain an option because a large audience will always value and support physical media.
The best way we can combat this is by Not buying a digital all console. If we show companies that we want physical media they'll be forced to continue to bring out games on a disc and never bring out a discless video game console, as the only option.
* Game from 2016 online = $40-60
* Game from 2016 at Gamestop = $15-30
Until Internet speeds increase, and there are more price drops that mirror physical media, then I'm sticking with physical discs as long as I can.
I don't trust any of these companies to keep their word.
It's a glorified rental and there is nothing you can do about it......only a moron would offer away their rights and allow somebody else complete control over something they paid for IF there is another option out there.
* Solutions = Increase hardrive to 2tb HD or 1tb SSD.
* Increase internet speeds = Nintendo,Sony & Microsoft need to pressure internet companies into increasing all around.
You know the article has a problem when the authors can't differ digital distribution from games as a service.
To be honest sony is combating streaming gaming themselves. They've literally made it so that the ssd bandwidth is through the roof and loads faster for the physical console with a disc when it comes to the ps5. The only way for a streaming service to keep up is offering the option to download the game. Which basically makes it a moot point because both disc and non disc download to the hard drive. Sony doesn't bet on one horse though, they keep their options open. Which is why they stream older games while offering newer ones on both disc and digital. Sony aren't morons, they know a huge portion uses discs and another portion simply prefers discs. They're not gonna abandon that anytime soon because they don't want to be in microsoft's shoes when they tried to push all digital.