No. They only are if you are connected to the internet. Meanwhile physical all the games I want *are* available to me at any time, provided I bring them with me which is incredibly easy to do. There is never a point in time in long travel sessions that I would need all my games at the drop of a hat.
And I am connected to the internet 99.9999999% of the time, this is a non issue. If you can't live without your games for a couple of hours one day out of every year, there is other problems.......
And usually this co-insides with a power outage......which renders the console and tv useless.
I will give you this, but its also not a very useful tool unless you have a large family that all want to play the same games at the same exact time.
Not even a large family, a family who happens to play in different rooms at different times. Not even possible with physical disks.
Yes it's all about convenience. Why would I want to make it harder?
I can do the same. And faster since I don’t have to wait on downloading. Just put the disc/cart in and play.
Not true, often if you haven't played you would have to do a big update (which by the way needs the internet) and I don't have to wait as my game auto update. Also you cannot search by title, or by release date, you can only scan your wall like a row of books.
This is only an issue if you have shitty kids who don’t know how to take care of your stuff, or you are a mess of an adult who can’t take care of their stuff.
No real counter so you resort to childish name calling and swearing? Ok. Discs do get damaged, even by adults. Sometimes even by the game consoles themselves.
They can get stolen. As soon as you lose access to your account. Which is a lot easier to do than stealing a bunch of physical games.
LOL, no, they can't get past a proper password and 2 factor authentication, good luck with that argument. Someone is probably wayyyyyyy more likely to rob your house than get control of my MS account, Sony account and Nintendo Accounts.
This is only an issue with kids and dumbasses who make friends with other dumbasses.
Again, insults instead of an actual counterpoint, but ok. Tons of people on this board can attend to having games lent to family or friends who forget or lose their games.
Very, very rarely do I have to “get a large update”. And if I do, its still *shorter* than having to download the entire game again.
Well since you have firmly established that technology isn't your thing, I doubt your dial up connection gets anything fast. No need to re-download the entire game again, most used ones are already on the drive, less used ones on backup drive. Or I can download a game in 5 - 10 minutes, unless you are a child like you like to say below, this isn't an issue.
Neither are better or wrose than each other. Physical has great deals and Digital has great deals.
Exactly, so no disadvantage either way on this point. Well maybe not, based on this there is a lot more on selection on sale digitally than physically this black Friday:
https://blog.playstation.com/2021/11/18/playstations-black-friday-deals-2021/ "Black Friday comes to PlayStation starting tomorrow, Friday, November 19. Discover great deals, with deep discounts for a variety of titles on PlayStation Store*. Make sure to bookmark the PlayStation Black Friday...
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This is not a necessary or all that great of a feature. Really only useful if you play almost only MP games or have the attention span of a toddler.
So now you take to insult the many, many people on this board to who enjoy this feature? I don't think you even understand the feature if you are saying only MP games benefit from it.
As I just showed, they don’t. The Pros are great for people with short sighted views that do not care about owning or having control over the things they purchase As the cons at that point become completely negligable. For anyone who actually wants to *own* their games and have control on when, where, and how they can be used, Physical is better. Objectively.
The only thing you showed is that you live in the past, and that for you physical happens to be your preference. You should perhaps one day read the terms on conditions of the games you "own", technically it's just a license to play it, you don't own anything.
You claim I don't have control over where when and how I can play my games, yet from what I see, I have more of that than you do. (I can play them in more places more easily)
As to short sighted, I don't care if I can play Forza 5 in 2040, I'll be playing something much better at that point. If I can still fire it up, great, if not, who cares.
Your also not factoring in the likelihood of optical drive failure, which with moving parts is much greater the rest of the machine, so it may not even run in 20 years.
I suppose you won't watch a show on netflix or disney plus or hulu since you don't own them? I mean you won't own them so you must be buying all your movies and TV shows too.