Physical only for all systems, unless it's a short indie game, in which case I'll wait for a digital sale.
If Xbox and PlayStation ever try to force digital-only, I'll probably wind down my game buying. I'll definitely stop buying new games at full price and just wait for steep discounts for the digital versions. Meanwhile I'll play through my unplayed physical games.
They built their own internal emulator
This is what Nintendo hardware engineers do to fill time when the Switch 2 is just a scaled-up Switch 1
Who are the people buying Despicable Me 4 on 4K
It's not about being friendly. It's about not saying the exact same comments in every single Nintendo thread. It's repetitive and boring.
It's not by almost any definition
"What should the logo look like?"
"Well, start with Doom. Then just kind of end there too."
Although DOS emulation is very good these days, this is really cool!
If it had been, don't you think Square could simply remake it in one game rather than splitting it into the multi-game saga that it always has been? It would never work!
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Another problem is that physical is a red herring. You don't own modern physical games any more than you own digital ones,
This is false. Most games do have the full game data on disc (or card). There are some specific examples, usually AAA titles like Hogwarts and Jedi Survivor, where there is either online DRM (I gather you mean online DRM, as that is the only thing that would make sense in context) or the title was too big to fit on one disc and they cheaped out. This is somewhat more common with Xbox hybrid discs; the disc will generally contain the Xbox One version, while the Series X version is a download. PlayStation 5 games generally have the full game on disc. Switch cards have the full game.
For the most part, if you buy a physical game, it has the game data on it.
as the famous The Crew shitshow has demonstrated. It doesn't matter if you still have the fancy disc, if you can't even go past the main menu when the publisher decides to shut down the game.
If it's an online-only game, of course it's not playable if the servers shut down. Don't want to pay for a time-limited game? Don't buy them. (I don't.)
In the end DRM is the only deciding factor, not if the game is digital or physical.
This is also false. DRM (again, presumably you mean online DRM in this discussion) is not the sole deciding factor. The actual deciding factors are the things are cited above.
When you say that physical and digital are equivalent, you're just factually wrong. There are certain cases where the physical disc isn't sufficient, but by and large, this sweeping statement is incorrect.
Online gaming is a cesspit that everyone should either avoid or play with everyone perma-muted