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Do you prefer to have digital or physical copies of your games?
I prefer physical. I don't know why; I guess the fact that I can physically touch a game and see its box adds a little bit more to it. I also want to be able to lend or outright give my games to people with consoles of their own if I ever wanted to.Do you prefer to have digital or physical copies of your games?
Unfortunately, that's exactly how it works - digital games are a license that can be revoked at any time the company pleases. This has happened to several games already - TRON: Evolution being the most recent one highlighted. Nintendo have also done this with the DS and Wii eShops, and it's a safe bet that they will *eventually* do this with the Wii U and 3DS as well. To be fair, it's several years before this kind of thing happens, but then with a physical copy of a game you can play it whenever you want no matter how old it is. It doesn't force you to buy a new system to access your old games either...something that Nintendo did with the DS to the 3DS jump. Transfer your purchases or lose them forever.soooooooo like
i more or less lean towards physical games. i dunno, there's thing gut feeling that i have with digital games that because they're a digital "license" of the game (so to speak), that Nintendo and/or the developer(s) of the games that i'm playing can very well just...decide the cancel the license for whatever reason and then poof, there goes my hard earned cash for playing the game and all the hours i sunk into it. .___.
perhaps someone who's more of an expert in video games legalese than i am will hopefully relieve these concerns but at the moment that's the biggest thing keeping me pretty hard towards physical rn if at all possible. that's not to say that i don't have any digital games, but i'm not super gung-ho on them, either.
Unfortunately, that's exactly how it works - digital games are a license that can be revoked at any time the company pleases. This has happened to several games already - TRON: Evolution being the most recent one highlighted. Nintendo have also done this with the DS and Wii eShops, and it's a safe bet that they will *eventually* do this with the Wii U and 3DS as well. To be fair, it's several years before this kind of thing happens, but then with a physical copy of a game you can play it whenever you want no matter how old it is. It doesn't force you to buy a new system to access your old games either...something that Nintendo did with the DS to the 3DS jump. Transfer your purchases or lose them forever.
I think there will be a gradual shift away from this - the move towards Netflix-style subscription services like Nintendo Switch Online, Playstation Now, and Game Pass suggest that we might *eventually* get a retro digital library that is easily transferrable and accessible across multiple platforms (although don't quote me on this until we find out whether Xbox Series X and PS5 will support current infrastructure...which let's face it, they would be insane not to) but as they are right now, digital titles are a temporary license and not an actual product. There is no customer ownership.