They get more, and we get less, that's the straight up fact of the matter.
Man, you got me there, but even if I sound like "old man screams at the clouds", I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Remember when they phones had headphone jack, Android had this lights that let you know if you had unread notifications from Facebook (blue) Whastapp (green) or other (white, and usually in my case was clash of clans). On gaming is even worse: we had full manuals that you can use to refresh your memories on controls, getting lore, etc. Or hidding secrets like celebrities as secret characters? Today it either a shop event or a battlepass, but either way grab them fast because we are removing it.
Some people try to justify digital being better because "good, stop wasting plastic", and I can't help but roll my eyes at this dumb reason.
Yeah, and it is a bad one. Servers consume a lot of water an energy. It is like people saying writing on an Ipad is better than a book because they save "threes", this is just totally wrong.
but I still decided it was worth getting because not every game is using the game key cards.
I understand, I personally will skip it, but not only because of this, but the abusive prices they are imposing in my region (600+ for the console only), I could afford it, but Im not going to support this. I was also going for the "buy the console, skip the digital only)
If we're going towards that doomsday narrative, those console makers can also update their TOS and release an update which render your disc unreadable.
Even if that is possible, I can always just press the "lol, no" on the agreement and skip the update. Yes I would lose the online store and possibilities (which sucks ofc), but I wont lose my games. Worse case scenario of a "sneak" update, I can always rollback to an older version because the console homebrew scene is incredible. I mean, no too long ago someone posted here a new port of Wipe out for the Dreamcast, and the OG Xbox Live is back online thanks to the efforts of community. Yes, stuff would be lost (like store or official online capabilities), but my I woudl still keep my games, except ofc the ones that I purchased digitally. Those are lost until I accept the TOS and have my access to the store.
Or current gen peripherals/disc not working on next gen consoles, to make players buy new controllers and re-buy same games on next gen consoles.We're already there with Sony making DualShock4 incompatible with PS5.
Peripherals working on newer generations are always the exception, not the rule. I can only think of the PS1 on the PS2, the GBC and the Wii (these two cases, iirc practically had their predecesor built inside the console) and the Switch 1 and 2 (same architecture).
And on PC is also a new thing, and something we will have to see how Windows 11 works with this. Back in the day, using a PS3 controller on PC was a hassle, and Nintendo didnt put USB on their controllers. Microsoft also has issues: a couple of years ago I tried to plug in my wireless receptor for my Xbox 360 and it just didnt want to work on my Windows 10. Thankfully I moved later to linux and it worked without and issue (even on the Steam Deck).
We have to thanks Steam for many of the compatibility on PC, but I always say that we should be cautios about over-loveing/depending on Valve, GabeN loves games and gamers, but he is not forever, and we dont know who will be the next CEO (or the next, or the next) and that guy will see he has like 65% of PC game purchases and fanatics that would kill themselves for them. This can end really bad
