GTA VI is digital only, why would they be talking about disc drives? There are clearly people who are all in on digital. I know a few myself, they aren't PC gamers though. If you're also all-in on subscriptions, $80-$100 digital media licenses, and never owning anything, more power to you. I too buy digital but only at steep discounts and I'm definitely not going for digital only consoles bc I like collecting. Next gen will probably be on pc with GoG, basic gamepass and piracy for lots of pholks. An all dgitial console = pc, minus a few exclusives. Why not just buy the more powerful, configurable, multipurpose, no online gaming fee PC??? GTA VI is good for selling consoles, but the business isn't good for gamers.
Best Buy plans to stop selling physical media such as 4K/Blu-Rays & DVDs/The End Of PlayStation Physical Media
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GTA VI is their main reason for getting it, but they're playing other games as well in the meantime.
The rising console prices along with the steam machine's high price has sparked a debate about whether people will just build PCs instead.
There are a lot of gamers that don't feel comfortable putting together a $2k-3k PC. They're either intimidated by it or they're afraid they'll break something or they want someone to call if something isn't working.
Those folks usually buy prebuilt machines instead. The problem is that those things come with a price premium.
I'm a PC gamer and haven't bought a physical game in years. But I still don't like the consoles going to digital only.
I hear you on constantly allocating space to things you probably do not regularly deal with. But when it comes to some video and audio material, more so the music for me, I will continue to need to own what I like and play it when I want. I am not in agreement with this cashless society - no ownership of anything - you either rent or have a subscription to everything existence they are pushing us towards!!!
If you don't learn how to do something yourself (build a pc, fix and maintain your console), it'll cost you more in the long run. That's a personal choice. steam machine's price didn't have that much impact on the industry just like previous steam machines and other stream only game services. If people are just now getting into this gen of gaming because GTA 6 drops, they're not the same as you, I, and others who think hardware first. You say you've moved past physical but does that mean you only license your games from steam?
I mainly wait for Steam sales and buy the game at a deep discount. The exception is if it's an Epic exclusive like Alan Wake 2. I've bought a few games from Ubisoft's platform as well.
I still have an external blu-ray drive so I wouldn't mind buying physical if it were available.
pretty much ...lol
i am not a gamer but i feel 4 y`all ... getting straight up robbed without a gun ...smh...
The secondary market is fuk'd!
when cellphones and mobile games started taking off ....i'm not surprised by any of this. apple and google been set this ground, hell like every physical game you buy it has to install gigs and gigs of game data. then they started selling cards with the activation codes. so regardless the main thing gamers need is storage and we see how bad that's gotten. but since i don't play games like i used to because of all this online and subscription shit i just wait and buy my ps5 games when they go on sale 10 - 20 dollars. all gaming is designed for now is to keep you subscribed and nickel and dime you to death with micro transactions and key words like plus and gold smh. that being said i love physical media and still got my original nes, wii, ps3 to ps5 and the portable nintendo and sony systems that don't need to be connected to the internet. i love options and with everything ...corporations are taking them away...... chances are the ps5 is my last system .
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