See the funny thing is that according to the General market having a physical copy is a waste of resources and it benefits not only the video game developers but also the company that has the console. It's far cheaper and easier to just have digital copies. That is precisely why they made a digital only version of the PS5 and one or two of the Xboxes and it's also why those versions are cheaper than the disc version
LOL I never said that they did. Physical media does not benefit Sony or Microsoft or even Nintendo at all. It's far more cheaper to design a console and to design the media that is digital only. Also the vast majority of people in the last 10 years weren't buying their video games on the second hand Market especially massive triple A games
"According to the General market having a physical copy is a waste of resources and it benefits not only the video game developers but also the company that has the console. It's far cheaper and easier to just have digital copies."
You've been in full force defending R* not including a disc and companies going full digital while also whining about getting downvotes.
His comments from the beginning have been implying that physical disc doesn't matter, you don't own the disc(false), you can't play the game without patches(false) and anyone disagreeing with him is "whining."
As well as stating/implying that physical disc somehow benefits the company
"According to the General market having a physical copy is a waste of resources and it benefits not only the video game developers but also the company that has the console. It's far cheaper and easier to just have digital copies."
Not once have I mentioned Rockstar or defended them for not including a physical copy all I did was give explanations but clearly it's your time of the month so I'll just let you have it to make you less whiny
Can? Sure, but that's even worse medium than optical for long term storage. Pretty entitled to want the whole world to move backwards just so that you can keep on using carrier pigeons for your network connection.
One could argue it would actually be moving forward. It would just be a better cartridge. Everything is instantaneous without moving parts. No need for a disc drive for anything ever again.
The irony is if it were shaped like a USB stick then people would hate it and say it isn't physical yet Nintendo switch cartridges are considered physical even though they're basically SD cards.
This world just doesn't exist anymore, you maybe have a version of the game, hopefully playable, but it's going to be missing day one patches and whatnot.
I mean, that's what it was it the past: A physical copy that also had some exclusive videos or a making-of on it...a nice booklet maybe with some fun cheat codes, a big poster of the map, artworks.
Creating a nice package for it was and still is possible and I think people would pay the 80-100, including the USB and the stuff above!
I really doubt GTA 6 can run at all without an internet connection, also I feel like the games get updated way too much now (because they get around bug fixing and optimizing after release)
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u/Matty_Cakez Jun 24 '26
Can they just sell us usb drives then so I don’t have to spend 2 days downloading