My entire childhood i tought all games and movies, shows, etc. Were free but turns out ive been pirating and im never going to stop

My console’s drive is also doubles as my bluray player; which is something I enjoy as a movie enthousiast. The audio and video from a bluray is so much better than from the mainstream streaming services, its not even close…

There is no difference, all the disc does is give you a license to play it, if they shut the servers down you will still lose access to playing it as it downloads anyway, if it's still installed on your drive it will always work as the data is still their.

But the issue with digitally owned is that you DONT own anything, so your saving money but they could pull the game at any point and now your flat out of the cost, where as physical copies are always playable

Hmm you'd still need the subscription for physical as anything online on these consoles.

I bought an Xbox Series X refurbed and will likely never use the disc drive. I simply have no need. I bought a lot of games on PC 5o play with my friends and they are cross compatible with the digital version on Xbox. I have digital access to a ton of 360 games.

I get that people want to physical media but its not important to me personally.

The very point of a console is to own physical games.

One of the main problems with the physical vs digital argument is missing on problem that is currently happening and the most complained about problems with PC games being buggy and/or unfinished content. I know physical can have bugs but they tend to not be on the massive scale of the digital only games/ PC main games. Its sometimes even very game breaking bugs and a very bare bones game with expectation of filling it out with content so you gotta wait even longer for it to be worth playing. Keep in mind that this is on games that are full release. The BS rating of games being in the many states of Alpha, Beta, early access to full release is causing so much of a problem. Digital only will fall to this problem as at least physical kinda forces them to flesh out most of the problems and at least get the whole game on the disc if at least the solo offline portion.

I have ran into Modern Warfare (don't remember which of them it was) that did the BS move of having online on the disc (a single limited map so not even the full online play) and the offline campaign as a giant download for no reason. Size constraint of disc so not all could fit but most of the game would have fit and been a rather small download for it. I would have at least tried to keep the game then but at the time my internet was not the best. The 80GB download would have taken 16 hours plus I could not stream anything while it was going, not even a basic YT video at 480P. I did get the game bundled with a new PS4 pro so I took and sold the included game to GameStop and got a $30 discount off a already discounted PS4 pro. Either way that tends to be the outlier on physical. Outside of speed, there is still download limits on some accounts and 80GB is a fairly big chunk out of a months limit.

Keep in mind that physical does not always mean disc, it can be nonwritable flash or mixed between nonwritable and writable flash which can take a whole lot more than any normal disc will do. So the whole size limit thing can pretty much be fixed on that front. Digital is nice for additional content like DLC to expand the game but still having the base game makes it a smaller chunk to deal with downloading wise.

You can store updates on something like a rather small external for most games and keep it like a physical if not just leave most of them on the drive. A mixed flash will have the game on the nonwritable and the writable will be for updates. I normally will get a new game and just load it in and get the updates for it and maybe look for any free DLC stuff and get it all on the drive and even install the game and just leave it as it tends to not take up too much. Some of those DLC stuff do expire (to use the code and not after you redeem) which is the dumbest thing possible. Digital is great for demos and they too can be stored up as some of them have nice replayability until you get the full game.

Digital has to be downloaded so it will depend on internet speeds but also the servers you are downloading it from. Servers are not always wanting to play nice and can very slow speeds even if you have faster internet. You also have to log into some sort of server to get the game and much like PC, will have its own account that is required to use. People complain enough on PC about it but it equally happens to console players but we don't have to rely on their launcher which I have seen many times stop you from even trying to play the game. Oh you forgot your login then guess you can't use the launcher to play any of your game at all. Even if they are already downloaded and ready to go. I know most of this is "online" play but it does effect solo play stuff even though it should not.

At this point if you aren't chasing the regular releases or multiplayer stuff, you may as well buy a steam deck. I ended up buying a bunch of indie games when my pc was out of commission for GPU reasons, because that's all my old ass laptop could run, and I had a great time with them. I honestly couldn't see myself building an entirely new system now over buying a steam deck, or something similar, especially given how many massive flops there has been in the triple A space and also how many good indie games have come out recently. As for consoles, they're walled gardens with minimal offerings at this point. None of them at this point are offering forever games like WoW or Halo, so why even bother?

Finished watching after 23 seconds. It's still Microsoft. Whatever they do it's most likely crap.

I really love GOG and wish i used it more in the past. Kinda sad with how big my steam library is, "with just borrowed licenses". But thankfully with the new family share. My family can be able to enjoy some classics on steam atleast. GOG is really nice tho. DRM free and you can write it to media like CD or USB. Also nice to be able to install the games without a launcher.

Is it me or is there no sound. All other YouTube videos work

Last I remember Linus is always banging on about the advantages of choice. The option of a disc or disc less console isn't bad.

do not give in to digital only
never

have physical copies… own the game

So, since when can you use the PSNetwork on a Xbox? I didn't get the memo.

Ni88a forgot about bluray movie player.

The younger gamers are gonna be PISSED years from now.

I will be pirating ganes from now on im sick of launchers

0:50 roughly two.

I play purely digital on xbox and have for at least 5 years I pick up a cheap game on disc every year or so. pretty sure people on pc are using discs either.

Just get a PC

Why on Earth would I ever consider getting the discless version of the Series X? How would I listen to my CD albums, watch my DVD and Blu-ray movies and TV show boxsets, and play my old Xbox One and Xbox 360 physical copy games on backwards compatibility without a disc drive? That's just stupid. If they stopped selling the disc drive version I wouldn't buy another Series X ever again if, say, my current Series X ever stops working after the warranty expires, I would switch to PlayStation if that ever happened assuming it didn't happen there. No disc drive is a straight up deal breaker for me.