MeowRufflet
MeowRufflet
MeowRufflet

What? Retro games aren't old games? Wtf are you talking about?

Chris Dring is no slouch when it comes to the European market. If he says this, it’s coming from an accurate source.

PlayStation isn’t going anywhere with physical for a while. The Insomniac hack showed that most of spider-Man 1 sales were physical. Even last year it was found that a significant percentage of players are buying physical copies of games.

But physical games are also dependent on servers and downloads in order for them to work. That got started with the PS3/360 generation. If they ever turn off the servers for patches on those consoles a lot of retro games will become useless.

Valve isn’t a publicly traded company, and one generally decent guy exercises nearly absolute authority over the platform, while his focus has never been on maximizing the profits generated by it.

This falls in line with what I’ve heard from my local video game store in Canada.

yeah gifting your digital license to a friend, and have them pay you some cash for it on the side, would be nice

Knock on wood I haven’t had an issue with my Xbox disc drives but my buddy sounds like you. His Xbox One drive quit reading game discs and would work in random instances.

When people talk about retro gaming, they’re talking about older platforms. That’s how the term’s always been used.

We need to resist it. The backlash to the XBone staved it off for two generations; if the resistance continues then so will physical.

See, this just feels like a niche case to me. Not to say it’s not good for those that use it, but is sharing the game concurrently with one person worth trading off the ability to lend and share the game without such limits?

I buy a lot of games right now and add them to my backlog because of the physical item that I can collect. I will buy a lot fewer games when they’re digital only as I will only buy them when I actually want to play them. The fun of collecting the item will be gone.

I much prefer physical, because it’s actually ownership. Ownership matters. I’ve got an old Game Boy and dozens of games that I can still play with new hardware (Though my GBA SP still works). Digital games are dependent upon keeping the hardware working, because downloading the game won’t work forever. For Nintendo,

This was always the end goal.

I don’t think I’ve ever paid for a digital xbox game, it’s all been paid with microsoft points. When I buy I buy retail. It’s really frustrating me that I can’t get a retail Alan Wake 2. Heck, I’d buy a Collector’s Edition, just as I had bought of the first.

19 million sold now. Good lord. It’ll outsell Pokemon Scarlet/Violet soon.

Oh they won’t. Nintendo is obviously the only company that pulls stunts like that. Every other publisher is clearly okay with their IPs being used in high profile mods.

Instead of WereGarurumon you’ll have “Werewolf wearing too-tight pants”

A good chunk of Digimon have guns anyway so if anything this works.

yeah animal crossing coming out right when the pandemic hit was like a 1-2 punch for people who had been on the fence.