Not completely, but it's been deemphacised in favor of 100% digital, or in Nintendo's case, also moving back to cartridges. Optical discs were never really that good, just cheap, and now the limitations are becoming increasingly impractical, especially compared to other options, and ESPECIALLY with the demands of interactive media.
Several countries have already decided it should be legal.
Soon anon.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-09-19-french-court-rules-steam-users-have-right-to-resell-their-games
Discs are cheap to produce and hold enough data. We’ll have to wait for SSD to get cheaper to make and for game sizes to get way bigger before we go back to carts. It won’t be the next generation, but possibly the following one. Maybe.
i kinda hope next gen sees the end of physical releases
devs have been trying to get rid of them for so long >used game sales give no money to the publisher >costs money to produce and distribute physical copies >day 1 patches make having a physical copy mostly irrelevant, disincentivizing you from wanting a physical copy over a digital one because its just less convenient >used prices can oftentimes beat out sale prices, so they sell less digital copies even during sales without making the games dirt cheap
only makes sense that they'd try and force digital on their consumers
not defending the practice, just saying that's why it's happening
I want discs to stay as long as possible for a reason you mentioned. Used games in disc are so much cheaper and drop in price so much faster than online marketplaces. >Inb4 PC
I'm a console player and on both psn and Xbox live games are often still full price heard after release whereas buying the disc from some random on eBay becomes cheaper than retail a few months after release. Sure psn and Xbox have sales often but if you miss that sale that 7 year old game you want to buy goes right back to fill price which is moronic. I buy a lot of games off of eBay because you just can't beat the prices there. Not even game stop
>CD
They already did.
series x can still play CDs
You can play CDs on xbox.
Not completely, but it's been deemphacised in favor of 100% digital, or in Nintendo's case, also moving back to cartridges. Optical discs were never really that good, just cheap, and now the limitations are becoming increasingly impractical, especially compared to other options, and ESPECIALLY with the demands of interactive media.
He's being technical. Consoles have been using DVD since the ps3 and Xbox not CDs.
>Not completely
Name a single commercial video game past 5th gen that was released on CD.
bet you feel stupid now, homosexual
How can i re-sell my game then ? please think about the collectorinos.
when all digital becomes a thing and discs are obsolete they will find a way to make digital games resell-able
Several countries have already decided it should be legal.
Soon anon.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-09-19-french-court-rules-steam-users-have-right-to-resell-their-games
pchuds already gave up that right with a big shit eating smile with steam.
like 20 years ago
xbox was still using dvds until 2013. now both playstation and xbox use blu ray
Discs are cheap to produce and hold enough data. We’ll have to wait for SSD to get cheaper to make and for game sizes to get way bigger before we go back to carts. It won’t be the next generation, but possibly the following one. Maybe.
CDs nuts in your mouth stupid b***h
damn he gottem good
i kinda hope next gen sees the end of physical releases
devs have been trying to get rid of them for so long
>used game sales give no money to the publisher
>costs money to produce and distribute physical copies
>day 1 patches make having a physical copy mostly irrelevant, disincentivizing you from wanting a physical copy over a digital one because its just less convenient
>used prices can oftentimes beat out sale prices, so they sell less digital copies even during sales without making the games dirt cheap
only makes sense that they'd try and force digital on their consumers
not defending the practice, just saying that's why it's happening
I want discs to stay as long as possible for a reason you mentioned. Used games in disc are so much cheaper and drop in price so much faster than online marketplaces.
>Inb4 PC
I'm a console player and on both psn and Xbox live games are often still full price heard after release whereas buying the disc from some random on eBay becomes cheaper than retail a few months after release. Sure psn and Xbox have sales often but if you miss that sale that 7 year old game you want to buy goes right back to fill price which is moronic. I buy a lot of games off of eBay because you just can't beat the prices there. Not even game stop