Physical Games Are Dying... 

Correction: The game Does Not "download" from the disc. The game Does "install" from the disc. I think the misunderstanding between a download and an install contributes greatly to people thinking that discs don't contain the game on them.

As a PC Gamer, I am so jealous of the console players because y'all still have an option of physical discs. I absolutely LOVED going to a game shop and picking up a newly launched game, coming back home and spending hours on it. Now you can just sit at home and do it all, it's just...boring.

I want physical games to stay alive. Gaming companies can shut down servers to download digital games, and they can remove digital games altogether if they want to. At least with the physical copy of the game you don’t have to worry about losing a game like that

Physical media forever

But "digital" is not more convenient cause your technically doing the same as with physical except you don't have nothing in your possession. At anytime these publishers/developers chose it can be taken away tomorrow and there's nothing you can do about it! Digital is not future proof so we need to keep our physical media alive. Don't support digital,online all the time, and having unnecessary memberships. It'll all be the end of gaming as we know if we don't fight for it 🙂

I am not a big fan of digital either. Because, yah. They do eventually take it all away from you. Like nintendo not allowing you to download Wii U or 3DS games off eshop anymore. Complete bullshit. I think if companies would just, do a better job at keeping their digital markets alive. Doing a better job at game preservation. Not cutting out features, censoring certain features, etc. Or just deleting random games, shows, movies etc just because. I would be fine with it. Netflix for example. They took off all of the nickelodeon movies and shows. Like I don't give a fuck why they did it. Put it back on or my netflix account is also shut off to. Plain and simple lol.

With digital games you will no longer own what you paid for...

I got about 300 games in my console catalogue and half of those are digital. Xbox is the big dealer of the digital age due to trying to promote Game Pass. In my country, you couldn't get RE 4 Remake or Starfield as an Xbox physical copy. And then there is the issue of some games just having limited physical releases like Shadow Warrior 3. Or NO PHYSICAL RELEASES like Alan Wake 2 and High On Life. And then there is the deluxe editions that only offer certain things that are exclusive to the digital version while the physical release gets no love. It sucks.

K-Mart tried that shit, then a year later they closed down

good editing but i want physical to be alive also im stopping first kids

To me Physical games are better to have than digital because I do essentially have it forever. It's the same with all forms of media and entertainment. Honestly if I could get physical copies of some of my favorite internet horror series, kinda like how Marble Hornets made DVD releases with bonus features available, I would so buy them so that they're preserved and so I could watch the series whenever I want. My family gets physical releases whenever we can, and only really get digital games if there is a sale on a specific game we want or if we were given Nintendo online for Christmas by grandma who's been begging to play Mario Kart with us. Even some N64 games I played back on the Wii virtual console my family bought the actual physical games just for our N64 so we can play them even if something happens to my childhood Wii. And with some physical releases like DVD, if you're worried about it breaking or being worn out you can just play the DVD on your computer, save different episodes as different files, and then burn all of those onto a blank DVD or even in a USB, which might be illegal but as long as you're not selling it then it's perfectly fine for preservation purposes.

Well, actually, it’s the big stores and businesses are kind of pushing the idea of all digital but in reality, it’s the physical media is thriving. In fact, some stores that specialise in the sales of games and DVDs they’re keeping the games and DVDs they’re pushing the sales of it.

Grand Theft Auto 5 for the Xbox series X locally. I want that!

we will understand how conservative feel, sooner or later

Long story, short manufacturers, and even big corporations that sell games or make video games, or whatever, it’s the big corporations they’re all pushing for digital sales because digital games cost nothing for them to produce cut out the cost of physical media, the physical desk, the cost of the case, the desk, the manual and the cover, and the physical shipment of the product to the retail store The retail store doesn’t actually give a shit for any of this. It’s just the consul manufacture being like yeah we don’t want physical media. We just want to make games and you’re right enough digital games should be cheaper, but I would say I would argue against it and say yeah, does it again should be as expensive as the physical ones because of digital games were cheaper to adjust, the cheaper manufacturing cost because you’re not getting a manual or case or cover you’re just getting just the best game theoretically should be cheaper but no I might say happy that it’s just as expensive because if the digital game digital downloaded games were cheaper to justify the cost of production That doesn’t exist anymore everyone would just go all digital and the physical media that we love would die quicker because I love physical media but it’s not the physical desk, the manual or the case that we love, it’s the ability to guarantee preserve and if digital gains became cheaper, our next complaint would be The price that we pay to have the luxury of keeping our game or movie forever Also physical media has the benefit or used to have the benefit of backwards compatibility. This isn’t necessarily the case anymore and digital actually has the benefit of backwards compatibility and the reason why is because for example for a current generation console like for example, for a PlayStation three for that to play PlayStation two games. It needs to have some PlayStation two hardware And that was absolutely the case, but digital download which is where I think that all downloads are actually going to thrive and that is backwards, compatibility and digital downloads. The game can be updated and adapted to the architecture of the software that you were downloading at 4 I would love to see a future where we have new releases of games are all physical only, but the backwards compatibility goes all digital and insert a desk, an old desk into a new consul. The desk would act like a key and download the most up-to-date version of the game. Maybe it’s in full HD maybe it’s random 4K, whatever updates and enhancements are it’s updated and enhance for the modern consul But backwards compatibility with physical media is kind of awesome book weird. For example, if the PlayStation five can play PlayStation two games, the desk, it would play the games as they are on that desk and standard definition, not high definition, and it would have all the bugs and glitches that were on that desk. However, if you were a digital download the PlayStation two game on your PlayStation five, then it could be in 4K or an 8K download and have some bugs and glitches fixed up and even a little bit of a graph of goal, cleanup, I think a future where digital download is for backwards, compatibility, only bringing all the games to new systems and new games are physical only and we can see the most popular and most successful games all the time come to backwards compatibility and a digital download it on a future consul that would be awesome I think that’s the proper way to do it

Digital is more convenient if you like to play remotely either on your phone, computer, tablet, PS Portal, Steamdeck or Rog Ally. Otherwise you’d be stuck playing whatever game is in the disk drive. And physical games begin to wear out overtime no matter how well you take care of them. However, the downside is that it can be taken away at the developer’s discretion. This where the Switch has an advantage over the other consoles. Being able to take the console wherever you want kind of negates the need for going all digital because you can take the games with you as well. Unless you just don’t feel like going into a store to pick games or wait for them to be delivered through the mail.

Physical gaming for the win

I have bought a ps3 an 360 again just to enjoy my games physical. All my switch games are physical. I've got a ps5 an xbox series S but I hardly play on them , just feels like remakes and more sequels to now older franchises. Also most ps3/360 games are going $1-10 great time to buy up before the nostalgia crowd pump up those prices like we saw with retro games in late 2010s

This is actually cut really well when you think about the fact that you dont even have 1000 Subs

The mandatory installs of games on HDD/SSD are due to the technological limitation of optical drives,, you can search on the web, even the slowest HDD (5400 rpm) is still much faster than any Blu-Ray drive out there, it's even faster than optical drives found on dedicated players for 4K BR movies. But yeah also helped companies and consumers to shift way faster to a digital only world.

I don’t care if I got to download updates for physical discs I own it & can sell it or trade

The PCMR needs a physical media and 8th gen has game you can still play it

i love this video. physical media 4 evar!!!