You’re misremembering too. They didn’t want to kill the used game market. You were still going to be able to trade in your games.

Their original Xbox One system was the best of both physical and digital combined in one.

It is better for many people. It all depends on what you prefer. I personally prefer having a full digital library that I can share via home console sharing, that I can access at any time from any Internet connected console at any time, that I don’t have to worry about my kids damaging or losing my disks, and that I can just buy and play at any time of day. I’m middle aged with kids, I’m not loaning games to friends or trading games in.

It costs more of my time to drive to the shops to buy a game than I’d save over buying digital, and as you get older you understand that time is the most important thing you have.

It’s much less than 25% actually.

As you said, they’ve got literally all the data on game sales on their platform. They know that digital is the winner for the large majority of their customers. As you said, they know they don’t need physical buyers as they’re people who generally give less money to them anyway.

They will, because it’s the only option and is “the” gaming brand.

Sure, because it’s a PC where everyone has been all digital for a decade, but Sonys change doesn’t just apply to their next console. You think Xbox will stop devs releasing physical games for the series s and x?

Because retail has never sold digital copies before.

Well that’s not true - you can buy digital codes for some Xbox games at retail, or at least you could, and they often went on sale.

So you are against updates just in principle lol. You’d rather games not get better because of a misguided idea that updates being a thing mean games aren’t “finished” at release.

You also seem to think that only online-only games get frequent updates. That’s not true. Take a game like vampire survivors for example. It must have had a hundred updates by now, and it’s a single player offline game (though they also recently added online multiplayer in a free update). That game will be playable in 30 years time too. Why wouldn’t it?

You are mistaking games that require a persistent online connection as “games that get updates”.

Sony fanboy? 🤣 I think Sony are a terrible company, and PlayStation is anti-consumer with terrible hardware and games. I’m a pc and Xbox player. Haven’t owned a PS since the PS3, and stopped using it a few years after release.

Both PlayStation and Xbox allow you to download games that have been delisted if you own them. Have since forever. You should do a bit more research before you speak.

They can’t really improve it though, because publishers and devs don’t want to make their game available for free, which is essentially what putting it on gog does.

So you’re just hoping Microsoft also get rid of discs because you don’t want them to still sell them if Sony doesn’t. Gotcha.

Why does that matter if you can buy them anywhere?

Again though - if you want a game console you’ll buy a PlayStation because it’s the only real option, and it’ll be cheaper than an Xbox.

Bu the time it comes out, people will be well accustomed to paying exorbitant prices for these things. It sucks but it’ll be the norm by then. Prices are never going back down, because history has shown us they never do.

10000% of nothing is still nothing.

Yeah, and that’s 99 of the top 100 most popular games.

Try selling someone a pc in 2026 that will never be able to play GTA6 lol.

Until yesterday you no doubt thought Sony would never do what they just announced. Maybe don’t “Xbox too” just because you want Xbox to.

The current Xbox is going to be supported for another 10+ years at this rate. They’re going to keep selling games on disc for it.

The next Xbox is a pc, which is already all digital.

Audi is one of those areas where 99% of people can’t tell the difference between 192kb/s and FLAC, especially through.

Same with video - most people are watching on crappy TVs from way too far of a distance, with things like motion interpolation turned on.

There’s a very low bar for “good enough”, and above that is irrelevant. Streaming services are more than good enough for 99% of the population.

You’re seriously trying to use price increases as a reason why their “physical as digital” plan wouldn’t work?

The Xbox game library is amazing. They’re consistently the best publisher of the year. The game pass library is incredible.

You can back up your Xbox game files too. PlayStation as well I’m pretty sure.

A bluray player can be bought for like a hundred bucks even here in Australia. They’re not expensive.

They don’t sell because no one gives a shit about physical copies movies.