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GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.

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[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago (21 children)

He is obviously biased by his business interests, but frankly he is ultimately correct. Once consoles are digital only, console players will lose the last form of control they have over anything they own.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You don't need CDs for that, and CDs don't prevent that.

As the other user pointed out, most CDs don't even have a playable form of the game on them anymore. You usually need additional updates to actually play the game (or in the case of those steam installs, the CD doesn't even have a bare minimum on it)

Technically you can own a game as a digital install too, just they won't deliver it that way.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Most? That's definitely not right. Every single game I bought up to the PS4 could be played without any downloads.

[–] w2tpmf@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every single game I bought up to the PS4 could be played without any downloads.

But they still couldn't be played directly from the disk, which is part of the point of the comment you replied to. Every single game I have for PS3 requires it to be installed onto the console in order to play it.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I edited my last comment to say explicitly "played without any download" rather than "run from the disk", the comment I replied to was missing my point. I couldn't care less if the disk goes spinny or not, this is not about storage technology, it's about control over the games you buy. The point is owning games without being bound to online services, which a disk that can be installed directly does perfectly fine.

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