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I wish they'd make the drive an optional add-on that you could buy later if you decide that digital only isn't for you, instead of using it as product segmentation. But that would be pro-consumer, so not gonna happen.
Fuck no.
I'm not getting an external disc drive. It will only end in tears.
I'm going all PC, Nintendo, or PS5 if Xbox goes all-digital.
I thought the selling point of consoles was supposed to be second hand games being cheap
Another benefit of having an external disk drive is that you can replace it if yours goes bad. I'm not sure what's going to "end in tears," it would work just like any other USB device, you plug it in and the console could load games from it.
But yeah, an all digital console makes no sense to me, unless it's an interesting form factor like a handheld or an arcade cabinet. So the only console I have is a Switch, and everything else is on PC.
Will that drive still work on the PS6? Will it work in 20 years? Can you buy more games after a Sony has shutdown the digital store? Can you sell your digital purchases if you don't want them anymore?
Those are the kinds of problems physical media solves.
I buy digital media on my PC and physical media on my consoles, because PC games aren't hardware specific whereas console games are.
I fear more and more games will become like BG3, digitally exclusive. I asked for it for my birthday and was told the game didn't exist for PS5. I was confused, as I most certainly have been reading reviews, then I found out it's only digital and thats why no one saw a copy.
Yeah, it's too bad they don't have a physical release, but it is DRM-free on PC, so game preservation is totally not an issue.
Ps5s next model is reportedly going the external disc drive route
They should make it HD DVD drive compatible 😁
Or at the very least let us convert our disc licenses to digital.
That's problematic because you can resell disks. I suppose they could sign disks independently and then only allow one digital owner, but then you'd need a formal process every time you resell, or worse, disallow reselling, and the cost for producing disks would go away up (not to mention returns would be a headache).