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The fundamental difference is that when you buy those formats, you are getting a final product. Nobody is stopping your disc in the middle, to ask if you want to download the special remix of this song, or a deleted scene.
Video games are now constantly upselling, and they can't do that if the consumer is isolated on their PC.
well, music and movies do not weight several hundred GB of data... but that's also modern games problem.
As a person working in gamdev - they ABSOLUTELY can optimise - people just doesn't care nowaday.
They should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.
And loud. And fragile.
Thumbdrives have a firmware, you could easily make them read-only. And also add your inconvenient DRM snake oil, if you will.
But no, cloud promises more $$$ through lock-in.
Can you imagine if video game prices were affected by the memory shortages?
But is this not how switch1 games were, just read only sdcards with the game on them.
Nintendo loves a cartridge, and goddamnit sticking with them was right.
Devils advocate here.
I/O and storage in those media formats are kinda limited for video games.
Blue-Ray prob has enough storage (at most we could go for multiple disk releases) capacity but still you would have to copy the games to disk.
I think GOG is on right track on this DRM free keep on disk as long as you want no need to check with external servers to play them.
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I see a whole lot of theoretical "what if platforms did this or that," when GoG is already doing it right. That's the way.
I see no problem with multiple discs tbh, also, we forget that thumbdrivers, sd cards, SSDs etc etc exist...
well ig games still being on CDS today are either for Console or is still small enough to fit.
I don't want Blu-ray, they're annoying unless someone has cracked them, which only happens for some titles.
Dvd is completely cracked and much more convenient.
I’m guessing the PS6 will jailbroken rather quickly
You can buy games DRM free on GOG and burn them onto a disk yourself. Or multiple ones, if needed
Sony thinking they can just pull a Steam way too late in the game, and with Steam and GOG as competitors 😂
Yes there is a very simple reason which is massively anti-consumer. Every product competes with it's own predecessor. Physical products will sooner or later break, movies will sooner or later get boring, same goes for music. But video games are different. People are still playing Tetris and Super Mario 64. You release one good game and the next one has to be better otherwise people will just continue to play the previous one instead of buying the new one. Publishers try to control this aspect. They dont want you to own games only have a license to play. It's not even a question of "if" they going to take away your older games, but "when". They want to restrict access to the previous product so you will have to buy the new one. They want full control. Look at Call of Duty. All but, the newest titles are barely playable, and that is done on by design.
That's also why im a patient gamer, like i really dont care if i cant play the newest games, i could have only played chess my whole life and been happy. So sometimes i wait five years to play a game because it was really expensive at release DRM whatever. Who cares, im still playing games from the 1990s once in a while, ill be fine not paying $80 for the new AAA games on release.
I also listen to The Doors and watch the dollar trilogy once in a while - music and movies can be timeless too!
Game companies realized their mistakes in making some fun games in the past, and now are trying to make sure nobody can play them.
There's aso no reason physical copy can't demand to get a validation token from Corporate every time it's played
Yep, DRM is the problem, not the distribution format.
“Please drink verification can”
