• Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    No disk drive is no purchase from me. I even saved up the money to buy one, but I won’t without a disk drive.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah I think we’ve learned by now that if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. I’m tired of “leasing” software.

      • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com
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        3 months ago

        The kicker is that owning the disk entitles you to a piece of plastic, and not much more at the moment. When servers go down, or day one patches are no longer available, the disk becomes no better than a coaster for many modern games.

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          Yeah that’s a fair point. But you should still be able to play offline. I’m not much of an online gamer anyways.

        • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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          3 months ago

          awesome! just double-check that it’s compatible with the new one before dropping the extra $80! Nothing about the Pro is official yet, so we still gotta wait and see.

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        Ehhh if most people don’t care about the disk, then i guess good they don’t need to pay for it. Reduce waste

        But i bougtht the console for the disk feature and use it as media center.

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        3 months ago

        I bet that hardly anyone buys the add on drive and they use that as a reason to completely drop physical media support in the PS6.

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          3 months ago

          Why wouldn’t they? Something like 93℅ of game sales are digital already. Physical games are almost extinct.

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            3 months ago

            Oh I agree they should. Physical game sales are a PITA.

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    3 months ago

    Ah so my waiting was worth it not buying the ps5 when it came out. Hurrah!