Why not? It's much more comfortable. And by the time they pull the license entirely, I will have moved on long ago to countless other amazing games. So license pulling isn't a big deal, either.
I think companies like limited run have too much influence now. We really should've never allowed them to grow to this level where normal companies just give them the license to print physicals because they cant be bothered themselves. This was never the point of limited run. The point was allowing smaller releases that never would've had chances to release physically to have physical releases. Not mainstream releases
What if I told you a lot of publishers no longer want to bother with physical. So the only reason you’re getting any of those games physical from LRG is because they’re producing them.
Even big publishers go with LRG. You can't tell me that sega don't have the ability to print discs for persona 3 portable and persona 4 golden, or to make the sonic x shadow collectors editions....
I rather pay a premium than not having any physical releases mate, I'm not happy about it, but at least through companies like them, physical media still endures. I hope more distribution companies come out to compete with LRG and competition cause it to drop the price.
Same here. Its worth to support the smaller publishers, I am pretty sure you already know such companies like - Limited Run Games, Super Rare Games, RedArt Games and Fangamer, these are just an examples, showing that people still love to get physicals, and are able to pay sometimes serius money to own them! 😄 These days at least I chose to not buy 3A or 4A games at day one (at least in 95%), because the prices are too much, and games for example by Ubisoft are quickly losing their value.
Plus, I'm not sure the point of the video. I still buy all my games for cheaper on physical. Compare Dark Pictures Devil In Me. $40 on PSN but only $12 on Amazon.
"no matter what" is the reasoning of an unreasonable person. You should be open to the possibility of digital being superior to physical, if not now then in the future.
@@romanski5811 Why not. I like having a physical collection to put on my shelf to show off. Even if no one looks at it, I know it’s there, I spent money on that game and I have something to physically show off and enjoy when I play it. Yes digital is convenient, but I will also choose physical and it’s better when Sony shut the PS5 servers down and digital copies stop working because the console hasn’t pinged Sonys servers in a few days.
@romanski5811 someone having conviction to stick to their values and beliefs doesn't mean they're unreasonable. Going all digital means giving up all your consumer rights. It will never be superior to physical. Companies don't want you to own your games.
@@CatMonette Having the conviction to stick to their values and beliefs is unreasonable *_if_* in fact those values and beliefs are based on false assumptions and faulty reasoning. So you always have to be open to being wrong about what you believe. And regarding the consumer rights; by the time these companies pull a license on a game I've digitally bought and played, I will have moved on a long, long time ago to many other amazing games, so people overestimate the significance of license pulling. Not actually owning the game and they pull the license after a few decades vs. owning it but it's collecting dust for a few decades - those two scenarios are effectively virtually identical. Like, if I have to rebuy an old school game that I really wanna play after a few decades, then that's not a big deal at all to me. People do that already anyway with all the old titles being available and being remastered all the time online. I really see no significant experiential difference between it all being digital vs. physical. Old people overestimate the "downside" of only digital.
@@thealph1191 you did say as a kid after all so I wouldn't think that kids were responsible back then. If the people you are lending and borrowing games from are trusted friends who are responsible adults i don't see a problem with it
I’ll always buy physical. Digital requires an internet connection to download anything, no trade-ins to get money back, no giving games to friends, not as likely to depreciate in value (looking at you ps3 store), internet stores go under maintenance and games can very easily get de-listed. We’re trading convenience for all of that. But more and more people are okay with that, so what do I know. That being said, I despise exclusive digital deluxe editions. I just don’t understand the point of rewarding someone who buys your game digitally over physically.
You can always sell your account if you want your money back. You can give your friends access to your account if you want to share your games with them. You only need internet connection initially to download the game then you're good to go. PSN store rarely goes under maintanance and it's usually for a very short time. P.T. is the only example of a good game that got delisted I can think of. And even that was more like a demo (and it wasn't even avaliable to buy physical).
@@tacos4419lending a game vs lending your whole account and selling a game vs selling the whole account, just because you want to sell away one game doesn't mean that you will be selling the whole account and just because you want to lend a game doesn't mean that you will be giving your friend whole access to your account
@tacos4419 selling your account risks bans and is more of a headache then a blessing. I deleted my steam account rather then trying to sell it as I knew it would be too much trouble to get working.
@@tacos4419 If you have already been online on the server, then if you lose your Internet for whatever reason, Sony cannot verify your licence and when that happens they will kick you back to the dash within 15 minutes.
I just never understood why digital was the same price as physical. You'd think they'd pass the savings of not having to print and ship games, back to us the consumers.
You should watch what will happen when there is no physical. Then there is only 1 place to buy the games from. No competition. Watch how much the games will be. Yes, digital game subscriptions are "cheap" now. The "Value" now is good. But it's the most ancient trick in the book. Blow out all the competition (in this case pesky brick and mortar stores that also compete with each other keeping the price low). When there is no physical and you can only buy in the playstation store, xbox store or nintendo store... then the games prices will sky rocket, the subscription service will look like a good deal. But it will be twice as much and tools on youtube will say its still a good deal ... So you think you getting a good deal whilest still paying too much and not owning anything you play.
@@Koosjuh85true that’s something I’m aware of. Same thing with Netflix jacking up prices over, and over. This will also apply to the new gaming subscription services for sure. As time goes on, they will likely start saying hey you can’t share accounts too. lol Oh I’m aware but tbh it’s not like I can stop it. I never said, I want only digital for everyone, unfortunately that’s how the shop is moving. Plenty are still buying games digitally whereas back on the PS2 era, that was a strange concept. Now it’s accepted and well there is something about digital that physical can’t compete with. It’s ease of use ~ are you willing to drive in a snow storm during a blizzard to pick a game copy 50 miles away? Or are you just gonna input your credit info, and download it at home? Even you gotta admit they got us man.
Forever. Especially now that scientists have made a breakthrough with a disc that can hold 125 terabytes of data. Saying "for as long as possible" is just admitting and letting physical will die because you'll just rollover and accept digital.
That ship has long sailed. Consumers have made it clear they’ll pay the same price for digital games as they will for physical. This is not going to change now.
I think the reason of why digital is the same price is to not cause issue with the retailer's and not the big companies but the small stores if a digital version was way cheaper than the retail then people will buy the cheapest option day one and that will cause issue with the stores they stop bringing games to stores and maybe they stop trying to promote for example playstation products
Also you should mention that even some digital only games finally have seemed to age out of even sales. I have multiple games on my Xbox wishlist that haven’t seen a sale in probably years now. And either the developer has dissipated or the publisher doesn’t care but these 5-6 years old games are still at full price and haven’t seen a price cut or sale in years either. Which isn’t conducive to people buying older games. I think it should be a mandatory a couple dollars off every year or so on digital games so older games still can be relevant and priced fairly. Rather than being full price how many years on and forgotten about.
The thing about physical media is that stores selling the games can have their own in-house sales while for digital you can only wait for sony/Microsoft/Nintendo themselves to initiate the sales. Without physical media we will also not have a second-hand market so people also won't be able to get a second hand copy for a cheap price. People nowadays like to turn to thrifting when it comes to clothes which makes sense as clothes are clothes and there's no such thing as digital clothes but for games if they choose to go full digital then people with lower budget but still want to play games won't be able to access games anymore so it would be worrisome if we went full digital
If physical media dies, I'm not buying a PlayStation anymore. They've been so anti consumer lately that physical media is really the only benefit to PS5 over PC at this point
@@HearMeLearn Accurate as hell. I have a PC but I like having physical copies of my (both from PC and PS) games on Playstation, my main console. If PC went the disc route back in the day then I'd have discs of all games on PC. God I love discs.
Maybe it's just me but I'm fine with waiting a little longer and possibly paying a little bit more so that I actually own the games I buy, and it hasn't been an issue for me so far. Got Baldur's Gate 3 earlier this year and loved playing through that, and I'm getting Alan Wake II in a few weeks from Best Buy which will be exciting to play it with all the DLC already available too. And I'm looking forward to picking up Black Myth Wukong whenever it gets a disc. I just can't imagine paying $69.99 for a digital license of something. Edit: A week after making this comment Black Myth Wukong got a physical disc print announced. Yet again I was proven to be correct in just waiting a little bit longer for physical versions of these “digital only” releases.
Exactly mate, we enjoy more complete games that way, being ironed out and patched. We also get goty editions, DLC burned on disk (or at least included via download), etc. I wanted to play Alan Wake 2 so much last year but persevered and in a couple of weeks, my patience will be rewarded, two-fold, since it includes pretty much everything! Wukong, whenever that releases physically, is next.
I’m the same way. If I buy a game full price I purchase it physically. The only time I’ll purchase a game digitally is if it’s $5 or less and it’s cheaper than the physical version.
This is why a console with a disc drive is so important, you have the option to purchase from BOTH PSN or a physical copy. You can pick and choose the cheapest option at all times
I will always support physical games for new games, new ips, or new sequels that interest me. The only time I buy digital games is when I buy old games that I love.
You know what’s wild, one time my buddy got his account hacked and Sony thought he was in on the scam. They refused to unban him for like 2 months until he got bank statements proving he was the one paying for the games and his account subscription, not a guy in Afghanistan. He had well over $1,000 worth of games on his account, yet no access to it for months, it would have been permanent if he didn’t fight for it. Just another reason to own physical copies! He still would’ve have lost all the data attached to the games, but at least you’ve still got your games!
The problem is instead of actual gamers we have these collectors who used to be games who are just buying physical media just to put it up on their shelves and display them in mint condition so "rare" items and "limited" things really tickle their pickle and has them excited to own something that no one else owns but at the end of the day games are meant to be played not to be left on a shelf wrapped in its factory plastic, yet thats what they do and whenever they are bored they sell it for an absurd price and sit on that price until another brain rotted fomo infected collector has the itch to splurge on some "rare" "limited" game that they wont even play. The path to a digital only age is set, stick with companies that respect you like Steam and GOG, the point of consoles for a lot of us where the fact that we had physical media but once that is gone, there really isnt any point to owning the future generations of consoles that have no physical media, might as well buy a pc. Collect whatever media is important to you and keep it. Physical media enthusiasts are a minority, thats a fact we have to accept if we werent then we wouldnt be heading towards this digital only path, its only happening because the market allows it to happen lets at least create a market that allows us to own the digital media and not be licensed to us.
Me too. Used to buy some games digital, mainly in sales. But I switched to buying physical only. I wanna own the games I pay money for and be able to resell them later.
For me in Australia getting copy day 1 physical is always significantly cheaper like I got how ragnorok $30 less and if I don’t wanna play day 1 it’s usually 50%-60% less a month later second hand
Make no mistake, companies are purposefully making physical releases worse or incomplete (Hogwarts Legacy, Jedi Survivor, and Star Wars Outlaws) to push people to just buy digitally.
I want Physical Copies over Digital... People need to wake up...Sony might get rid of Physical which helps monopolize Sony and believe me you don't want that!
I always put what I want on my wishlist and then I get a notification when it's on sale. There are some good sales on PSN sometimes. I never buy games over $30 - or if I do, I regret it.
Here in Argentina physical media is extremelly expensive. Where a new 70usd game costs around 112k pesos, the physical disc could end up costing around 150k pesos.
I’m seeing this in real time, my sparking zero pre order is delayed probably because they didn’t make enough copies, because they probably didn’t want to. They want to force you digital.
My real main point of not wanting to go full digital is that I don't want to lock myself into it as my only option. I'm 42 and don't have as much time to play anymore so when I do see a game I want to invest my time into, I look at every purchase option. PSN, retail stores, marketplaces and I have a few local pawn shops that see good game movement. Gaming is expensive already and I feel as soon as we see physical go away as an option, the digital sales will be fewer and further between.
They have a monopoly as you can only buy games from their own store, I highly doubt that they will even have sales if people cave in to buy from the digital store and they have no incentive to hold sales. PC is different as there are more than one store like steam, epic and gog. So it would be worrisome if ps went full digital and we are forced to buy only from their own store. If this truly happens with their next gen console I would prob go to PC gaming and stick back to PS5 and older gen games for console gaming
As a niche Japanese game collector I stopped worrying about price long time ago. Nowadays I'm more worried about a game not getting a physical PS5 print. I often go out of my way to buy a game at full price even though I could wait for discount. I worry that if I don't buy it now there won't be one next time.
Agreed. All games can be bought six months or later unless there is a culture shock actual event that has to be experienced in real time or simultaneously with everybody else. Remember all the RDR2 stuff that was going on at the time. The game itself could be enjoyed (or not, in my case, didn't like it) any number of years after the release but the risk of spoilers and the hype being gone is something to factor in. GTA VI is one of those things. I seriously consider taking vacation for that one.
Yep. No reason to buy new on day one unless it's something I'll play online for a couple years. If we would quit rushing them on day one to have the newest game, it would force them to lower prices on day one.
@@Walamonga1313 Casual? Sports games is casual. Racing games is casual. CoD is casual. Any console sale with 15 CoD games and nothing else is a casual nonsense player with greasy controllers and pubes in the disc drive. A new GTA is mandatory release day purchases since they only happen once a decade these days and you don't want to dilute the hype.
As someone who has always wanted to collect physical, let me tell you that it's pretty much done now. With the introduction of the PS5 Pro and how it doesn't include a disc reader, this sets the bar on the PS6 and how it too will feature the same cost cutting measure. The data doesn't lie - more people are turning over to digital gaming than physical and we can also see that with other hobbies such as watching streaming films and tv shows.
Bro you seriously know nothing and that's why the attachable disc drive that you can attach to the PS five pro is selling out everywhere preparing for the release The Pro does have a disc drive you can attack and many I know already bought it in preparation.... There are still millions of physical supporters but many companies are FORCING DIGITAL and that's why you see highest statistics because many games are being forced to be sold digitally or enticed to buy digitally with neglecting the physical release! You seriously know nothing and I guarantee if digital wasn't forced down the consumers throats, many more people would still be buying physical and many still do! Many games they have made it harder to buy a disc copy to make it on purpose so the consumer gets impatient waiting around thinking the disc is too hard to get and digital is the only option . They keep pushing these anti consumer tactics that millions of fans do not want. Their is room for Physical and Digital support! Physical is not a dead market but large selfish greedy companies are trying to make it that way
For someone who doesn’t play a ton of games I go with physical whenever I can. If you do play a ton of games shelf space can become an issue. Especially if you are older and already have a massive Gen 5,6, 7 collection. Also you need to ask yourself will you play the game more than once. If the answer is no. You probably don’t need it on physical. For me I might play it every 4-5 years depending for physical games I buy. Or maybe I can lend it to someone I know. But definitely a variable on what’s better.
I will use a cd binder to store all my games and recycle the boxes so space isn't an issue. I will only keep boxes for games that I am not sure if I want to keep or sell.
I buy physical copies of the games that truly matter to me. But I probably buy more digital games because they are on sale on the digital store and I feel like it's less of a loss if I don't like it.
Nowadays, buying physical is only cheaper in certain select circumstances. Retail sales on physical games are shallower, more select, and rarer than I think they've ever been - it's rare that I see, say, Walmart or Best Buy or GameStop sell a game at a lower price than PSN. Used, older, out-of-print games (think mid-gen PS4 games) are usually cheaper on PSN as well (during a sale, at least). PS2 and PS3-era games are usually way cheaper on GOG or Steam than buying copies off Ebay. Buying used games online also usually incurs shipping fees and the accompanying sales tax, tacking on a few more dollars to the price. I like physical games. I like getting a tangible disc that isn't tied to any particular account. But I think it's time we retire this idea that physical games are cheaper.
If you know two friends with similar tastes and you can buy a digital game and share at the same time, it is hard to go back to physical games and that’s probably why they are so expensive
They just be listed Little Big Planet 3 from the store😢 Bro keep making these videos even though they're super nerdy😅 I love looking at your games on their Shelf. Support physical games and local game stores
I'll always prefer physical media over digital. More often than not, the physical game will have all the DLC on the disc. A perfect example is the Tomb Raider Trilogy Remastered; yes, we had to wait for a physical copy BUT it has all the patches included on the disc and comes completed. Another good example is Spider-Man 2 is all on the disc as well. A shelf full of games is always more appealing than a hard drive filled with games...
I do prefer physical over digital, however sometimes a game is just so much cheaper digital than it will ever be physically. It really does become a case by case basis for some games.
I used to be almost all physical, but made the switch to digital around early 2020, simply because my lifestyle involves moving where I live very frequently. I do NOT wanna have to haul a bunch of discs around every 5-10 months. Second, this isn’t like the PS2 days anymore where complete games were on the disc from day 1. Unfortunately, day 1 patches and dlc are a thing. I don’t like it, I don’t support it, but it’s here to stay it looks like. Modern disc gaming isn’t much better.
To your second point - A playable version, admittedly perhaps not always the best version, but a fully playable/completable version nevertheless is still present on the vast majority of PS4 and PS5 discs. It is a worsening trend overall I agree, and noticeably worse on the XO. However currently at least not nearly as bad as many people assume.
Physical might end up being a niche offering like print to order or special editions and become similar to vinyl for music, the premium offering for the hardcore.
I grew up with the Nintendo 64 and physical cartridge was a big factor as to why I loved that era of system, friends would borrow from me and I from them, it was a magical experience, I’ll always buy physical media for as long as I live.
Once they stop making physical media for certain devices, is when I’ll stop giving my $$$ and pirate everything. Digital ownership doesn’t exist and never will. I’ll gladly spend lots of my $ on physical media as I always have. But if you don’t provide that, then I will seek the best method of digital ownership which is pirating in 4k UHD HDR. Plus now I will have incentive to teach all my family and ppl I know and actively seek to do so now that I have reason
Our situation in Brazil is kind of bad at the moment. We like to buy the physical version of games, but they are considerably expensive, especially during sales because they hold their value compared to the digital version. Sony practically has a monopoly on the physical version in the Brazilian market. So you either pay a premium to have them with you all the time and have fewer games because of that (money is always tight these days) or buy the much cheaper digital version and run the risk of not having a certain game in 5, 10 years. Not having to pirate a game/console is a real struggle outside the USD/EUR markets.
Bought Baldurs gate 3 physical and the only option was a 100$ deluxe edition that came out well after the game released. The state of physical is not good…
man, physical supply chains are still/already pretty borked. I pre-ordered Silent Hill 2 steelbook edition here in Germany from the biggest retailer, got an email yesterday that it's delayed. Meanwhile they updated their website and when I check my order details, it sends me to the regular PS5 edition. Steelbook edition completely gone from their website, not even showing N/A. I asked and currently it's unclear when/if I can pick up the game and which edition it will be. There's not a single copy of the regular PS5 edition in their store or on their website available today. Exact same thing happened with RE4R last year. Pre-ordered steelbook, got email a couple days before release that my order has been cancelled. No steelbook in sight. Back then, though, I was able to pick up a regular copy. Physical pre-orders from brick and mortar retailers are still a mess since Covid.
@@BBK113 No, no, no my friend... You wouldn't put Resident Evil 4 Remake after Village, you would put it between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 for instance.
@danbooke2001 Yeah in cases like that, that's different. But let's say for arguments sake because it's my pfp, I had all the sonic games released on PS4 psychically. In my collection, I'd put them down as Mania first, then forces then Frontiers, Orgins+, Superstars and finally Sondow Gens. To me personally, going in alphabetical order for stuff overall and then release order for sequels makes sense
Was very happy in the past few months I picked up physical PS5 copies of Gotham Knights for $10, Callisto Protocol for $10, A Plague Tale Requiem for $20, and Kena Bridge of Spirits for $20. All at Walmart. Very happy about that!
Its honestly scary to think about games without physical media.. PC people also should spend more on GOG rather than steam and such IMO, because its as close as you can get to license free
Physical is even cheaper when you search locally on platforms like Craigslist, Facebook, or at swap meets and garage sales. A major issue with price charting is that it relies on eBay sales, which tend to rise over time partly because many eBay prices include shipping costs, making it appear that prices are increasing. Various sellers then use these prices as a baseline, adding shipping on top of that.
Honestly, as I got older, I realized I don’t need all my games physically. For this reason. I love gaming but not enough to justify some of these awful prices or long wait times for LRG. Ya only have finite space and I feel like it’s very easy to become a hoarder with a collection.
It's slowly but steadily coming to a sad end. With sony releasing a 800 euro console this november without a disc drive. The biggest reason and intention for this being digital future, yay. We can expect the next sony console in 3 or 4 years to not have any drive whatsoever. That will be the time I won't get a console.
Problem is, atleast here, hardly any physical store sells games anymore. The 1 dedicated game-shop we had, also recently filed for bankruptcy (equivalent of your GameStop, in our country called Game-Mania). Another general media store, doesn't have much choice and half the time doesn't even list the prices. VR games half the time don't have a physical release. They are making it hard to get a hand on physical disc games.
But they can though those physical games can get very old and rare and people can sell those rare physical games at such a very high price which makes them Way more expensive than digital games.
I will always collect physical, it just feels good seeing where your money went with all the games in my shelf and when I'm buying something for 60 - 80 bucks, I wan't to have something in my hands and not a digital license. I don't feel the same type of satisfaction with my digital library on the PS5. If we're going all digital someday, I will quit collecting games and just head over to PC and I won't even care for a second about PlayStation anymore. That was also the reason why I didn't play Alan Wake 2 till now and now that it's getting a physical release, I'll be getting it Day One.
You buy physicial to own your game. I buy physical so i dont want to permanently own the embarassment that was Spiderman 2. Platinumed and sold that shit in a week for near full price.
Physical all the way. I preordered Sparking Zero for 60€ physically, while it's 80€ on PSN. Plus I always have the option to sell, lend to a friend or trade it for something else, which is way more convenient than digital, in my opinion. As long as I can buy physical copies, I wil!
Target store sold me final fantasy 7 remake intergrade for $20 I got 2 copies of them sealed their not for sale no reason to open them when I got them free with PlayStation plus monthly
I got a copy from Target too and someone made me offer I couldn't refuse even though I'm a hard-core collector but was not a huge fan of that series anyway so it was easier for me to let go
ALWAS very happy to spend my money on physical games and always will. The day that physical games finally comes to an end for good, that'll be a sad day for gamers as a whole.
There’s an odd trend in which PS4 games with free PS5 upgrades are reselling higher than the PS5 game equivalent. It kinda makes sense because more people have PS4 and you technically get two games in once but Miles Morales PS5 is $18 and PS4 is $28 at GameStop. 🤔
I get it, but like you said. You do get a 2 in 1 with some PS4 games which will make them more valuable. Unfortunately it does outprice the people who want the old games either because they don’t care about the PS5 version, or only have a PS4 and now feel obligated to upgrade to save money in the long run.
Imho, I personally like to go digital to buy my games from the comfort of my own home, but I can understand why most people would with physical because they own the game instead of the developer. If the developer shuts down the game because you only own the license, not the actual game, you can always play the game on disc for some nostalgia and keep your hard-earned progress. It depends if the physical media will survive in the future. I pray that physical media survives and is still ongoing in the future 🤞🙏
The two biggest things that made me stop buying digital whenever I can was the delisting of crew and making it unplayable and also Sonys movie store where they took away certain rights for films, taking away some movies and shows from peoples accounts. I now buy physical dvds over getting a digital HD version. It’s just not worth the risk anymore and considering how much I invest into my entertainment and collection.
@@JC-hi8fkit's probably not a good example to use as it's a live service game (do correct me if I'm wrong). For other games it does truly help especially if they are single player games or games that can be played offline.
When I realized things were getting serious was when I could not get a FF7 remake ps5 american copy for a decentr price. Even third parties don't want to invest in reprints and that scares me.
I have ALREADY made a comment but I have to agian. -MAJORITY OF PLAYSTATION 5 PHYCICAL GAMES ARE ON THE DISC, NOT JUST A KEY! DO NOT REQUIRE ONLINE CONNECTION JUST TO PLAY- LIKE CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE 2' OR ONLINE DOWNLOAD REQUIREMENT LIKE STAR WARS SURVIVAL' IN FACT VERY FEW! SOME ARE BUGGY STATE BUT GAMES STILL FULLY ON THE DISC. UPDATES AND PATCHES REQUIRE ONLINE CONNECTION TO DOWNLOAD YES, BUT AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN DOWNLOAD UPDATES AND PATCHES AND INSTALLED THEM YOU CAN DISCONNECT YOU'RE PLAYSTATION 5 - OFFLINE And Continue playing with all updates and patches installed. Reprinted disc with all patches and updates alerady on the disc's like Horizon forbidden west complete edition is exactly they perfectly solution too this. I do not know what is the case on xbox or PC- Maybe all PHYCICAL games - Require online connection just to play or arn't on the disc's ' But not on Playstation 5! This isn't an opinion either, this is objective rational truth like you clothes became wet if you're jump into water with you're clothes on.
I only support digital games when you can pirate all of them like on PS Vita. Other than that, I always buy games physically. If I won't be able to, that's fine. I'll just not buy them. I have already survived by not buying any PS5 games due to the controller not being comfortable for me and the dumb decision to lock game saves to a cloud service you have to pay for. I can back up PS4 game saves on a USB on PS5...but not PS5 game saves? Ridiculous.
Yeah but if you look up Final Fantasy seven rebirth intergrade they didn't make a lot of physical copies and that's why that one has a higher value not regular Final Fantasy seven remake Intergraded copy!
This is so crazy. I was just thinking EXACTLY THIS today as I checked up on Metaphor Refantazio's physical edition price. Usually its way cheaper physical but not this time. Astro Bot was 519dkk digital, and 399dkk physical. But Refantazio was 519dkk digital and 499dkk physical. It feels so random lmao
Another way of saying what Ryan said about the physical/digital split is that the percentage incorporates "all games with an up-front cost" including all games sold on PSN. It is not a 1 to 1 comparison between just games with a physical print. Frankly its a disingenuous number because its not what it looks like it is. I wish Sony would give us what that number actually is because so many take it as "physical is dying" and I dont believe it is. Digital more popular? Yes. Physical dying? No, not to me.
Convenience is king. Look at what happened cds, dvds and books. Imagine on your phone if you had to switch out a memory card every time wanted to play a different game. It would be silly. All physical media will eventually become niche. I went digital midway through ps4 gen, it’s great. I gameshare with my brother, he can play all my games and I can play his. We can even play the same game at the same time, With physical we’d need 2 copies.
I saw a "Ubisoft XBOX - €5" labeled bin at a big brick and mortar retailer today. Sealed copies of FarCry6 were in there among other Series S/X Ubisoft games. At launch the Ultra whatever deluxe edition had cost €129 iirc
70$ game in india is big crime. People here playing PUBG free and thats enough for them. Games being overpriced is the reason why no one cares about these games.
What are you even saying ??? Other than a few pre-order games( even those don't cost more than 4000 usually) most of PS5 games are in the range 2000-4000 including cross gen titles) You can check the prices of Until Dawn and Silent Hill 2 discs, they are priced at 4000! Tell me one current game( not pre-order or ultimate edition) that is more than 5000( cleary less than 70 dollars as you said) Rupees in India. Having said all that, Playstation is a luxury console and the games are a luxury for gamers in India.But there is little to no overlap between the people who play PUBG or free FPS mobile games and the people who own a playstation. Console gamers are more likely to have a PC for Laptop whether they play FPS on rather than playing on mobile. I would love if Sony implemented regional pricing in India like steam on both PSN and the discs. They should also market their console and the games a lot better than whatever they are doing now, maybe as an aspirational product. Unless you are into games and go to youtube or other websites where there is already an active community, you would never be able to know what new games are releasing. No new at all about anything. It's so bad. Since we don't even contribute 1% of the sales of PS5, sony basically gives no thought to us at all.
I’m mostly buying games from the Japanese PSN nowadays. Thanks to the exchange rate they’re basically 50 % off and nowadays they’re all multi language. Also the games release like almost a day early there 😊
I will always continue to buy physical games whenever it’s possible. If a game is digitally available, it better only be available digitally because the Indy developer could not afford to physically produce a copy. 10 out of 10 times my wallet will buy a physical game that I want whereas two out of 10 times I may consider buying a digital game.
@@thatonegeeksite5251 Steam and GOG are the only reliable digital stores, your games will never be removed from your library even if you're banned. People who purchased games or DLC on Steam from 2006 can still play them today. Only way these are gone is if the companies go bankrupt but Valve is the literal market leader to the point they don't even need to make games anymore and GOG is DRM free so you can backup your game installers in case anything bad happens. Epic, PSN, Uplay and the Xbox Store on the other hand are extremely unreliable and you can lose your licenses for no reason. This is why console players refuse digital.
@@thatonegeeksite5251 no, but it a least offers multiple storefronts (Steam, Epic, GOG, ect), so there's competition. If you buy a digital only Playstation console, you're stuck with the one storefront.
Pick physical over digital any day of the week! If it doesn't come in a physical copy, I don't buy it! As soon as you let physical games die, you let history die with it xx
I’ll always be there for physical release. I think I’ve bought one game digitally this whole gen and that’s only because I had no choice at the time. That was was tomb raider remastered and that’s getting a physical version which I’ll be buying
I would be very curious to see what’s the physical/digital ratio if the generic yearly sports/shooter games are taken out of the equation (Fifa, COD, 2K etc.). Those games sell a lot, and make sense to be bought digitally because they are intended to be played all year long, and have no resell value from next year. I’m pretty sure if those are not counted, physical sells equally, if not more than digital.
I’ve had to cut back on physical just recently as I’m simply running out of room space to keep them. Having moved two years ago the thought of having all this library that I’m most likely never going back to was one factor. It’s just getting more convenient to download it and have it ready to play release day.
I recommend using cd binders! You can recycle the boxes for the games where you don't really want the box or you are not planning on selling! I also recycled most of my game boxes and only kept those with collectors edition and games that I might sell.
I am always an advocate for physical games. For a few reasons, as a hobby collector i like to see & display the collection, in future could get some return back for the investment. I can play games unpatched if needed, or once license has ran out ie Marvel games etc i will always have a copy instead of getting romoved of the store. I also see digital as more of a life rental not a purchase because you cannot control it, like the subscription model the way Sony remove games every month but also talk about increase pricing.
Another fine example of this also is Concord, those that picked it up physically although cannot play it at least you retain a piece of history you cannot get anymore
If you bought the game, it doesn't matter if it's removed from the store. I own the digital Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate for Xbox/Windows and I can still go to my Windows store games, download the game and play. Same thing with the classic GTA Trilogy on PS4 which was delisted in favor of the "definitive editions". I bought the originals when they released so I can still play them on PS4 and PS5 since they're backwards compatible.
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Don't let physical media die
Why not? It's much more comfortable.
And by the time they pull the license entirely, I will have moved on long ago to countless other amazing games. So license pulling isn't a big deal, either.
gosh I hope not.
@@romanski5811that’s good for you but there’s tons of other players that like to go back to old shit all the time.
@@romanski5811 i really hope its sarcasm
@@romanski5811ok u have moved on not everyone has moved on and found a new game.
I think companies like limited run have too much influence now. We really should've never allowed them to grow to this level where normal companies just give them the license to print physicals because they cant be bothered themselves. This was never the point of limited run. The point was allowing smaller releases that never would've had chances to release physically to have physical releases. Not mainstream releases
Facts
What if I told you a lot of publishers no longer want to bother with physical. So the only reason you’re getting any of those games physical from LRG is because they’re producing them.
Even big publishers go with LRG. You can't tell me that sega don't have the ability to print discs for persona 3 portable and persona 4 golden, or to make the sonic x shadow collectors editions....
I rather pay a premium than not having any physical releases mate, I'm not happy about it, but at least through companies like them, physical media still endures. I hope more distribution companies come out to compete with LRG and competition cause it to drop the price.
Be glad that companies like Limited Run exist and provide physical releases, where otherwise there would be none.
Doesn’t matter to me, I still buy physical until I can’t or have all the games I want.
Same here. Its worth to support the smaller publishers, I am pretty sure you already know such companies like - Limited Run Games, Super Rare Games, RedArt Games and Fangamer, these are just an examples, showing that people still love to get physicals, and are able to pay sometimes serius money to own them! 😄 These days at least I chose to not buy 3A or 4A games at day one (at least in 95%), because the prices are too much, and games for example by Ubisoft are quickly losing their value.
Likewise
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Plus, I'm not sure the point of the video. I still buy all my games for cheaper on physical. Compare Dark Pictures Devil In Me. $40 on PSN but only $12 on Amazon.
@@AnimeBronx are you going to explain your opinion or just say that other people have it wrong?
Still buying physical no matter what
Same bro
"no matter what" is the reasoning of an unreasonable person. You should be open to the possibility of digital being superior to physical, if not now then in the future.
@@romanski5811 Why not. I like having a physical collection to put on my shelf to show off. Even if no one looks at it, I know it’s there, I spent money on that game and I have something to physically show off and enjoy when I play it. Yes digital is convenient, but I will also choose physical and it’s better when Sony shut the PS5 servers down and digital copies stop working because the console hasn’t pinged Sonys servers in a few days.
@romanski5811 someone having conviction to stick to their values and beliefs doesn't mean they're unreasonable. Going all digital means giving up all your consumer rights. It will never be superior to physical. Companies don't want you to own your games.
@@CatMonette Having the conviction to stick to their values and beliefs is unreasonable *_if_* in fact those values and beliefs are based on false assumptions and faulty reasoning. So you always have to be open to being wrong about what you believe.
And regarding the consumer rights; by the time these companies pull a license on a game I've digitally bought and played, I will have moved on a long, long time ago to many other amazing games, so people overestimate the significance of license pulling.
Not actually owning the game and they pull the license after a few decades vs. owning it but it's collecting dust for a few decades - those two scenarios are effectively virtually identical. Like, if I have to rebuy an old school game that I really wanna play after a few decades, then that's not a big deal at all to me. People do that already anyway with all the old titles being available and being remastered all the time online.
I really see no significant experiential difference between it all being digital vs. physical. Old people overestimate the "downside" of only digital.
still always go physical just because i can sell it in the future and get some money back
You can lend your games to your friends and borrow from them too
@shunketsuchannel did this as a kid, won't do it again.
@@thealph1191 you did say as a kid after all so I wouldn't think that kids were responsible back then. If the people you are lending and borrowing games from are trusted friends who are responsible adults i don't see a problem with it
@@KiritoHDGamingBetter than nothing... if you regret a game purchase on digital, you essentially just lost that money.
Yep. eBay is your best friend
I’ll always buy physical.
Digital requires an internet connection to download anything, no trade-ins to get money back, no giving games to friends, not as likely to depreciate in value (looking at you ps3 store), internet stores go under maintenance and games can very easily get de-listed.
We’re trading convenience for all of that. But more and more people are okay with that, so what do I know.
That being said, I despise exclusive digital deluxe editions. I just don’t understand the point of rewarding someone who buys your game digitally over physically.
You can always sell your account if you want your money back. You can give your friends access to your account if you want to share your games with them. You only need internet connection initially to download the game then you're good to go. PSN store rarely goes under maintanance and it's usually for a very short time. P.T. is the only example of a good game that got delisted I can think of. And even that was more like a demo (and it wasn't even avaliable to buy physical).
@@tacos4419lending a game vs lending your whole account and selling a game vs selling the whole account, just because you want to sell away one game doesn't mean that you will be selling the whole account and just because you want to lend a game doesn't mean that you will be giving your friend whole access to your account
@tacos4419 selling your account risks bans and is more of a headache then a blessing. I deleted my steam account rather then trying to sell it as I knew it would be too much trouble to get working.
@@tacos4419 If you have already been online on the server, then if you lose your Internet for whatever reason, Sony cannot verify your licence and when that happens they will kick you back to the dash within 15 minutes.
@@B33FY2011let's not forget the cbomb nightmare 😅
I just never understood why digital was the same price as physical. You'd think they'd pass the savings of not having to print and ship games, back to us the consumers.
That’s where the greediness comes in
Profit is never passed onto the consumer.
You should watch what will happen when there is no physical. Then there is only 1 place to buy the games from. No competition. Watch how much the games will be. Yes, digital game subscriptions are "cheap" now. The "Value" now is good. But it's the most ancient trick in the book. Blow out all the competition (in this case pesky brick and mortar stores that also compete with each other keeping the price low). When there is no physical and you can only buy in the playstation store, xbox store or nintendo store... then the games prices will sky rocket, the subscription service will look like a good deal. But it will be twice as much and tools on youtube will say its still a good deal ... So you think you getting a good deal whilest still paying too much and not owning anything you play.
@@Koosjuh85true that’s something I’m aware of. Same thing with Netflix jacking up prices over, and over. This will also apply to the new gaming subscription services for sure. As time goes on, they will likely start saying hey you can’t share accounts too. lol Oh I’m aware but tbh it’s not like I can stop it. I never said, I want only digital for everyone, unfortunately that’s how the shop is moving. Plenty are still buying games digitally whereas back on the PS2 era, that was a strange concept. Now it’s accepted and well there is something about digital that physical can’t compete with. It’s ease of use ~ are you willing to drive in a snow storm during a blizzard to pick a game copy 50 miles away? Or are you just gonna input your credit info, and download it at home? Even you gotta admit they got us man.
Nope they want every penny out of you
I hope we have physical media as an option for as long as possible
Forever. Especially now that scientists have made a breakthrough with a disc that can hold 125 terabytes of data. Saying "for as long as possible" is just admitting and letting physical will die because you'll just rollover and accept digital.
I always think digital should always be cheaper right from the get go because there are no manufacturing costs for starters
Absolutely. And I wouldn't be surprised once things go full digital, the sales will actually happen a lot less. Because they'll have you locked in.
Sony experimented with that on the Vita. 1st party digital games were a few dollars less than the physical versions.
That ship has long sailed. Consumers have made it clear they’ll pay the same price for digital games as they will for physical. This is not going to change now.
Why there are more sales .
I think the reason of why digital is the same price is to not cause issue with the retailer's and not the big companies but the small stores if a digital version was way cheaper than the retail then people will buy the cheapest option day one and that will cause issue with the stores they stop bringing games to stores and maybe they stop trying to promote for example playstation products
Also you should mention that even some digital only games finally have seemed to age out of even sales. I have multiple games on my Xbox wishlist that haven’t seen a sale in probably years now. And either the developer has dissipated or the publisher doesn’t care but these 5-6 years old games are still at full price and haven’t seen a price cut or sale in years either. Which isn’t conducive to people buying older games. I think it should be a mandatory a couple dollars off every year or so on digital games so older games still can be relevant and priced fairly. Rather than being full price how many years on and forgotten about.
The thing about physical media is that stores selling the games can have their own in-house sales while for digital you can only wait for sony/Microsoft/Nintendo themselves to initiate the sales. Without physical media we will also not have a second-hand market so people also won't be able to get a second hand copy for a cheap price. People nowadays like to turn to thrifting when it comes to clothes which makes sense as clothes are clothes and there's no such thing as digital clothes but for games if they choose to go full digital then people with lower budget but still want to play games won't be able to access games anymore so it would be worrisome if we went full digital
Why I like Capcom, they always give general price cuts to their games a year or 2 after releasse even in digital stores.
If physical media dies, I'm not buying a PlayStation anymore. They've been so anti consumer lately that physical media is really the only benefit to PS5 over PC at this point
deadass. if there's no physical option then console is just a worse pc at that point
@@HearMeLearn Accurate as hell. I have a PC but I like having physical copies of my (both from PC and PS) games on Playstation, my main console. If PC went the disc route back in the day then I'd have discs of all games on PC. God I love discs.
Ok boomer lmao!
Maybe it's just me but I'm fine with waiting a little longer and possibly paying a little bit more so that I actually own the games I buy, and it hasn't been an issue for me so far. Got Baldur's Gate 3 earlier this year and loved playing through that, and I'm getting Alan Wake II in a few weeks from Best Buy which will be exciting to play it with all the DLC already available too. And I'm looking forward to picking up Black Myth Wukong whenever it gets a disc. I just can't imagine paying $69.99 for a digital license of something.
Edit: A week after making this comment Black Myth Wukong got a physical disc print announced. Yet again I was proven to be correct in just waiting a little bit longer for physical versions of these “digital only” releases.
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I feel the same way you feel. Most people don't. It's a shame.
@@AnimeBronxno u 🫵🏻
Exactly mate, we enjoy more complete games that way, being ironed out and patched. We also get goty editions, DLC burned on disk (or at least included via download), etc.
I wanted to play Alan Wake 2 so much last year but persevered and in a couple of weeks, my patience will be rewarded, two-fold, since it includes pretty much everything! Wukong, whenever that releases physically, is next.
I’m the same way. If I buy a game full price I purchase it physically. The only time I’ll purchase a game digitally is if it’s $5 or less and it’s cheaper than the physical version.
Physical is still cheaper for major releases. These stupid limited boutique releases are another story.
Absolutely. Physical to my knowledge has always been cheaper than digital. But mouth breathers would have you believe otherwise.
But with sales arent digital cheaper. Idk im just asking
This is why a console with a disc drive is so important, you have the option to purchase from BOTH PSN or a physical copy. You can pick and choose the cheapest option at all times
I will always support physical games for new games, new ips, or new sequels that interest me. The only time I buy digital games is when I buy old games that I love.
I will always Prefer physical over digital even though digital is much easier
Oh okay Robert tell us more hot takes
@@Blingchachink no im good I wasn’t even tryin to that
U don’t own digital
@@kingsleyjackson8287 I know that
@@Blingchachink how is that a hot take?
You know what’s wild, one time my buddy got his account hacked and Sony thought he was in on the scam. They refused to unban him for like 2 months until he got bank statements proving he was the one paying for the games and his account subscription, not a guy in Afghanistan. He had well over $1,000 worth of games on his account, yet no access to it for months, it would have been permanent if he didn’t fight for it.
Just another reason to own physical copies! He still would’ve have lost all the data attached to the games, but at least you’ve still got your games!
i never connected my ps5 to the internet so no one can ever hack me😊
The problem is instead of actual gamers we have these collectors who used to be games who are just buying physical media just to put it up on their shelves and display them in mint condition so "rare" items and "limited" things really tickle their pickle and has them excited to own something that no one else owns but at the end of the day games are meant to be played not to be left on a shelf wrapped in its factory plastic, yet thats what they do and whenever they are bored they sell it for an absurd price and sit on that price until another brain rotted fomo infected collector has the itch to splurge on some "rare" "limited" game that they wont even play. The path to a digital only age is set, stick with companies that respect you like Steam and GOG, the point of consoles for a lot of us where the fact that we had physical media but once that is gone, there really isnt any point to owning the future generations of consoles that have no physical media, might as well buy a pc. Collect whatever media is important to you and keep it. Physical media enthusiasts are a minority, thats a fact we have to accept if we werent then we wouldnt be heading towards this digital only path, its only happening because the market allows it to happen lets at least create a market that allows us to own the digital media and not be licensed to us.
I’m doing my part and switched from digital to physical
Me too. Used to buy some games digital, mainly in sales. But I switched to buying physical only. I wanna own the games I pay money for and be able to resell them later.
Support physical media because why not? Even if you don’t prefer it why root for it to go away for others to enjoy?
Forget price, we need to own what we buy full stop
For me in Australia getting copy day 1 physical is always significantly cheaper like I got how ragnorok $30 less and if I don’t wanna play day 1 it’s usually 50%-60% less a month later second hand
Make no mistake, companies are purposefully making physical releases worse or incomplete (Hogwarts Legacy, Jedi Survivor, and Star Wars Outlaws) to push people to just buy digitally.
I want Physical Copies over Digital... People need to wake up...Sony might get rid of Physical which helps monopolize Sony and believe me you don't want that!
Oh that is cute, you have Concord physically, nice door stop right there :)
I always put what I want on my wishlist and then I get a notification when it's on sale. There are some good sales on PSN sometimes. I never buy games over $30 - or if I do, I regret it.
I'm lucky that I still have a big local game store near me that still rents out games and blu-rays.
So lucky, how I’d wish to walk into that store.
GameFly is a great option for this as well if you don’t have these type of stores where you live
Here in Argentina physical media is extremelly expensive. Where a new 70usd game costs around 112k pesos, the physical disc could end up costing around 150k pesos.
I’m seeing this in real time, my sparking zero pre order is delayed probably because they didn’t make enough copies, because they probably didn’t want to. They want to force you digital.
I’ve been noticing these trends with physical as well too. With PS5 if it’s a game I really want I’ll get them within the first year or so.
The funniest shit will be when the next console is digital only and my library is fucked.
If that happens then I’m sticking with ps5. Digital only console then you might as well just a get a pc at that point.
@@MajerHawkthat's my exact thoughts, might as well go PC if this is happening
It’s not gonna happen anytime soon if never, they will design it the same way ps5 slim is with detachable drives
They will sell an expensive disc drive that probably will have low stock.
@@MajerHawkYou’re going to wait 2 years to play the big Sony exclusives? Or possibly not play them at all? lol
My real main point of not wanting to go full digital is that I don't want to lock myself into it as my only option. I'm 42 and don't have as much time to play anymore so when I do see a game I want to invest my time into, I look at every purchase option. PSN, retail stores, marketplaces and I have a few local pawn shops that see good game movement. Gaming is expensive already and I feel as soon as we see physical go away as an option, the digital sales will be fewer and further between.
They have a monopoly as you can only buy games from their own store, I highly doubt that they will even have sales if people cave in to buy from the digital store and they have no incentive to hold sales. PC is different as there are more than one store like steam, epic and gog. So it would be worrisome if ps went full digital and we are forced to buy only from their own store. If this truly happens with their next gen console I would prob go to PC gaming and stick back to PS5 and older gen games for console gaming
Dont let physical die. And these all digital games dont need to be the same price as physical they shouldn't be 70+ dollars with the base games
As a niche Japanese game collector I stopped worrying about price long time ago. Nowadays I'm more worried about a game not getting a physical PS5 print. I often go out of my way to buy a game at full price even though I could wait for discount. I worry that if I don't buy it now there won't be one next time.
Same here.
Call me cheap if you will but I'm more of a patient gamer. I always wait for prices to drop. The only exception is if it's a new GTA or Red Dead.
Agreed. All games can be bought six months or later unless there is a culture shock actual event that has to be experienced in real time or simultaneously with everybody else. Remember all the RDR2 stuff that was going on at the time. The game itself could be enjoyed (or not, in my case, didn't like it) any number of years after the release but the risk of spoilers and the hype being gone is something to factor in.
GTA VI is one of those things. I seriously consider taking vacation for that one.
Yep. No reason to buy new on day one unless it's something I'll play online for a couple years. If we would quit rushing them on day one to have the newest game, it would force them to lower prices on day one.
GTA and Red Dead lol, casual much?
@@Walamonga1313 Casual? Sports games is casual. Racing games is casual. CoD is casual. Any console sale with 15 CoD games and nothing else is a casual nonsense player with greasy controllers and pubes in the disc drive.
A new GTA is mandatory release day purchases since they only happen once a decade these days and you don't want to dilute the hype.
Filthy casual games
Great to see that PS studios and big AAA games people are still preferring physical over digital. I would always go for physical where possible
As someone who has always wanted to collect physical, let me tell you that it's pretty much done now. With the introduction of the PS5 Pro and how it doesn't include a disc reader, this sets the bar on the PS6 and how it too will feature the same cost cutting measure. The data doesn't lie - more people are turning over to digital gaming than physical and we can also see that with other hobbies such as watching streaming films and tv shows.
You can still add a drive to the pro
@@adamthiry868 that was part of my point yes
Bro you seriously know nothing and that's why the attachable disc drive that you can attach to the PS five pro is selling out everywhere preparing for the release
The Pro does have a disc drive you can attack and many I know already bought it in preparation....
There are still millions of physical supporters but many companies are FORCING DIGITAL and that's why you see highest statistics because many games are being forced to be sold digitally or enticed to buy digitally with neglecting the physical release!
You seriously know nothing and I guarantee if digital wasn't forced down the consumers throats, many more people would still be buying physical and many still do!
Many games they have made it harder to buy a disc copy to make it on purpose so the consumer gets impatient waiting around thinking the disc is too hard to get and digital is the only option .
They keep pushing these anti consumer tactics that millions of fans do not want.
Their is room for Physical and Digital support!
Physical is not a dead market but large selfish greedy companies are trying to make it that way
I’m just going let my slim sit away for a jailbreak and get the pro and just use my disc drive from that
@@adamthiry868 Yes but you have to add it. Most people are idiots and won't.
This is one of the sign of physical going vinyl. Low stocks producing higher prices.
Disc will still be around 👍🏽Why would sony still be making disc drives to sell separately if they don’t plan on making disc’s 💿✌🏽
Thanks! My kinda content. Great vid!
For someone who doesn’t play a ton of games I go with physical whenever I can. If you do play a ton of games shelf space can become an issue. Especially if you are older and already have a massive Gen 5,6, 7 collection.
Also you need to ask yourself will you play the game more than once. If the answer is no. You probably don’t need it on physical. For me I might play it every 4-5 years depending for physical games I buy. Or maybe I can lend it to someone I know. But definitely a variable on what’s better.
I will use a cd binder to store all my games and recycle the boxes so space isn't an issue. I will only keep boxes for games that I am not sure if I want to keep or sell.
@@shunketsuchannel That's stupid displaying the boxes is the best part of owning physical.
@@nogpog3345 Exactly. The hell's the man doing. Boxes are the art.
My Internet will be off for a while so my collection of physical games just saved my life 🎉🎉
And gamers well be sorry when the digital dystopian future fully takes hold...
I buy physical copies of the games that truly matter to me. But I probably buy more digital games because they are on sale on the digital store and I feel like it's less of a loss if I don't like it.
Same here.
Nowadays, buying physical is only cheaper in certain select circumstances. Retail sales on physical games are shallower, more select, and rarer than I think they've ever been - it's rare that I see, say, Walmart or Best Buy or GameStop sell a game at a lower price than PSN. Used, older, out-of-print games (think mid-gen PS4 games) are usually cheaper on PSN as well (during a sale, at least). PS2 and PS3-era games are usually way cheaper on GOG or Steam than buying copies off Ebay. Buying used games online also usually incurs shipping fees and the accompanying sales tax, tacking on a few more dollars to the price.
I like physical games. I like getting a tangible disc that isn't tied to any particular account. But I think it's time we retire this idea that physical games are cheaper.
If you know two friends with similar tastes and you can buy a digital game and share at the same time, it is hard to go back to physical games and that’s probably why they are so expensive
They just be listed Little Big Planet 3 from the store😢
Bro keep making these videos even though they're super nerdy😅 I love looking at your games on their Shelf.
Support physical games and local game stores
I'll always prefer physical media over digital. More often than not, the physical game will have all the DLC on the disc. A perfect example is the Tomb Raider Trilogy Remastered; yes, we had to wait for a physical copy BUT it has all the patches included on the disc and comes completed. Another good example is Spider-Man 2 is all on the disc as well. A shelf full of games is always more appealing than a hard drive filled with games...
I do prefer physical over digital, however sometimes a game is just so much cheaper digital than it will ever be physically. It really does become a case by case basis for some games.
I always buy physical first but I will also pick up same game if it goes on sale digitally just for convenience.
I used to be almost all physical, but made the switch to digital around early 2020, simply because my lifestyle involves moving where I live very frequently. I do NOT wanna have to haul a bunch of discs around every 5-10 months.
Second, this isn’t like the PS2 days anymore where complete games were on the disc from day 1. Unfortunately, day 1 patches and dlc are a thing. I don’t like it, I don’t support it, but it’s here to stay it looks like. Modern disc gaming isn’t much better.
Haul a bunch of discs? How many discs? Ever heard of a disc binder or spindle? You don’t like it, you don’t support it? Are you sure?
To your second point - A playable version, admittedly perhaps not always the best version, but a fully playable/completable version nevertheless is still present on the vast majority of PS4 and PS5 discs. It is a worsening trend overall I agree, and noticeably worse on the XO. However currently at least not nearly as bad as many people assume.
Physical might end up being a niche offering like print to order or special editions and become similar to vinyl for music, the premium offering for the hardcore.
I grew up with the Nintendo 64 and physical cartridge was a big factor as to why I loved that era of system, friends would borrow from me and I from them, it was a magical experience, I’ll always buy physical media for as long as I live.
Same with me, but for PlayStation! ❤️
@@MrFruitBazookglad to hear you had a similar experience
A lot of people didn’t buy integrade because it was a full price game but if you owned the PS4 version you got a free PS5 upgrade
Once they stop making physical media for certain devices, is when I’ll stop giving my $$$ and pirate everything.
Digital ownership doesn’t exist and never will. I’ll gladly spend lots of my $ on physical media as I always have. But if you don’t provide that, then I will seek the best method of digital ownership which is pirating in 4k UHD HDR. Plus now I will have incentive to teach all my family and ppl I know and actively seek to do so now that I have reason
Our situation in Brazil is kind of bad at the moment. We like to buy the physical version of games, but they are considerably expensive, especially during sales because they hold their value compared to the digital version. Sony practically has a monopoly on the physical version in the Brazilian market. So you either pay a premium to have them with you all the time and have fewer games because of that (money is always tight these days) or buy the much cheaper digital version and run the risk of not having a certain game in 5, 10 years. Not having to pirate a game/console is a real struggle outside the USD/EUR markets.
@@Mineirovsky it's not a struggle in France
Bought Baldurs gate 3 physical and the only option was a 100$ deluxe edition that came out well after the game released. The state of physical is not good…
man, physical supply chains are still/already pretty borked. I pre-ordered Silent Hill 2 steelbook edition here in Germany from the biggest retailer, got an email yesterday that it's delayed. Meanwhile they updated their website and when I check my order details, it sends me to the regular PS5 edition. Steelbook edition completely gone from their website, not even showing N/A. I asked and currently it's unclear when/if I can pick up the game and which edition it will be. There's not a single copy of the regular PS5 edition in their store or on their website available today. Exact same thing happened with RE4R last year. Pre-ordered steelbook, got email a couple days before release that my order has been cancelled. No steelbook in sight. Back then, though, I was able to pick up a regular copy. Physical pre-orders from brick and mortar retailers are still a mess since Covid.
0:13 Why are your Shantae games not in release order?
All games should be in alphabetical order. Not release order.
@danbooke2001 Alphabetical order I agree with for the most part but if their sequels put them in release order
@@BBK113 No, no, no my friend... You wouldn't put Resident Evil 4 Remake after Village, you would put it between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 for instance.
@danbooke2001 Yeah in cases like that, that's different. But let's say for arguments sake because it's my pfp, I had all the sonic games released on PS4 psychically. In my collection, I'd put them down as Mania first, then forces then Frontiers, Orgins+, Superstars and finally Sondow Gens. To me personally, going in alphabetical order for stuff overall and then release order for sequels makes sense
Was very happy in the past few months I picked up physical PS5 copies of Gotham Knights for $10, Callisto Protocol for $10, A Plague Tale Requiem for $20, and Kena Bridge of Spirits for $20. All at Walmart. Very happy about that!
Its honestly scary to think about games without physical media..
PC people also should spend more on GOG rather than steam and such IMO, because its as close as you can get to license free
Physical is even cheaper when you search locally on platforms like Craigslist, Facebook, or at swap meets and garage sales. A major issue with price charting is that it relies on eBay sales, which tend to rise over time partly because many eBay prices include shipping costs, making it appear that prices are increasing. Various sellers then use these prices as a baseline, adding shipping on top of that.
I got Battlefield 2042 on disk yesterday. For $20 at Walmart, while on the Sony store it’s full price for $70
Not to sound rude but that game does go on sale literally every other month for $9.
@@RingoSkulkin I get your point, my problem is Sony still charging full price, at least make the game like $40 regular price.
@@prabhdeepdhaliwal5706 It’s not Sony It’s EA who keeps the price that high. But yea that game was $15 everywhere for a very long time
Honestly, as I got older, I realized I don’t need all my games physically. For this reason. I love gaming but not enough to justify some of these awful prices or long wait times for LRG. Ya only have finite space and I feel like it’s very easy to become a hoarder with a collection.
It's slowly but steadily coming to a sad end. With sony releasing a 800 euro console this november without a disc drive. The biggest reason and intention for this being digital future, yay. We can expect the next sony console in 3 or 4 years to not have any drive whatsoever. That will be the time I won't get a console.
Problem is, atleast here, hardly any physical store sells games anymore. The 1 dedicated game-shop we had, also recently filed for bankruptcy (equivalent of your GameStop, in our country called Game-Mania). Another general media store, doesn't have much choice and half the time doesn't even list the prices. VR games half the time don't have a physical release.
They are making it hard to get a hand on physical disc games.
It’s strange because you’d think physical games would be more expensive than digital. Not the other way round.
But they can though those physical games can get very old and rare and people can sell those rare physical games at such a very high price which makes them
Way more expensive than digital games.
I will always collect physical, it just feels good seeing where your money went with all the games in my shelf and when I'm buying something for 60 - 80 bucks, I wan't to have something in my hands and not a digital license. I don't feel the same type of satisfaction with my digital library on the PS5. If we're going all digital someday, I will quit collecting games and just head over to PC and I won't even care for a second about PlayStation anymore. That was also the reason why I didn't play Alan Wake 2 till now and now that it's getting a physical release, I'll be getting it Day One.
You buy physicial to own your game. I buy physical so i dont want to permanently own the embarassment that was Spiderman 2. Platinumed and sold that shit in a week for near full price.
Wtf Spiderman 2 was a really great game
Spider-Man 2 is a masterpiece and the best PS5 game in my opinion
You don't own the game physically
Physical all the way. I preordered Sparking Zero for 60€ physically, while it's 80€ on PSN. Plus I always have the option to sell, lend to a friend or trade it for something else, which is way more convenient than digital, in my opinion. As long as I can buy physical copies, I wil!
Target store sold me final fantasy 7 remake intergrade for $20 I got 2 copies of them sealed their not for sale no reason to open them when I got them free with PlayStation plus monthly
I got a copy from Target too and someone made me offer I couldn't refuse even though I'm a hard-core collector but was not a huge fan of that series anyway so it was easier for me to let go
Gaming was way more expensive in the beginning an now time is reversing back. Should have appreciated it when we had it good.
When is black myth getting a physical copy?
ALWAS very happy to spend my money on physical games and always will. The day that physical games finally comes to an end for good, that'll be a sad day for gamers as a whole.
There’s an odd trend in which PS4 games with free PS5 upgrades are reselling higher than the PS5 game equivalent.
It kinda makes sense because more people have PS4 and you technically get two games in once but Miles Morales PS5 is $18 and PS4 is $28 at GameStop. 🤔
I get it, but like you said. You do get a 2 in 1 with some PS4 games which will make them more valuable. Unfortunately it does outprice the people who want the old games either because they don’t care about the PS5 version, or only have a PS4 and now feel obligated to upgrade to save money in the long run.
They also run better than the PS5 version
Imho, I personally like to go digital to buy my games from the comfort of my own home, but I can understand why most people would with physical because they own the game instead of the developer. If the developer shuts down the game because you only own the license, not the actual game, you can always play the game on disc for some nostalgia and keep your hard-earned progress. It depends if the physical media will survive in the future. I pray that physical media survives and is still ongoing in the future 🤞🙏
The two biggest things that made me stop buying digital whenever I can was the delisting of crew and making it unplayable and also Sonys movie store where they took away certain rights for films, taking away some movies and shows from peoples accounts. I now buy physical dvds over getting a digital HD version. It’s just not worth the risk anymore and considering how much I invest into my entertainment and collection.
Disc copies of The Crew are unplayable too…
@@JC-hi8fkit's probably not a good example to use as it's a live service game (do correct me if I'm wrong). For other games it does truly help especially if they are single player games or games that can be played offline.
@@shunketsuchannelfax
If a game is delisted the people who bought it still have access to it.
@@DeesBees85 if the servers are still up to download it, but those also can be taken down
When I realized things were getting serious was when I could not get a FF7 remake ps5 american copy for a decentr price. Even third parties don't want to invest in reprints and that scares me.
PHYSICAL DISC RULES via detachable DISC drive too.
PS5/4 disc collection growing too.
Via astro bots too.. PHYSICAL DISC!.
Too bad PlayStation and PSN is not available in our country :(
I have ALREADY made a comment but I have to agian.
-MAJORITY OF PLAYSTATION 5 PHYCICAL GAMES ARE ON THE DISC, NOT JUST A KEY!
DO NOT REQUIRE ONLINE CONNECTION JUST TO PLAY- LIKE CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE 2'
OR ONLINE DOWNLOAD REQUIREMENT LIKE STAR WARS SURVIVAL'
IN FACT VERY FEW!
SOME ARE BUGGY STATE BUT GAMES STILL FULLY ON THE DISC.
UPDATES AND PATCHES REQUIRE ONLINE CONNECTION TO DOWNLOAD YES, BUT AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN DOWNLOAD UPDATES AND PATCHES AND INSTALLED THEM YOU CAN DISCONNECT YOU'RE PLAYSTATION 5 - OFFLINE And Continue playing with all updates and patches installed.
Reprinted disc with all patches and updates alerady on the disc's like Horizon forbidden west complete edition is exactly they perfectly solution too this.
I do not know what is the case on xbox or PC-
Maybe all PHYCICAL games - Require online connection just to play or arn't on the disc's '
But not on Playstation 5!
This isn't an opinion either, this is objective rational truth like you clothes became wet if you're jump into water with you're clothes on.
I only support digital games when you can pirate all of them like on PS Vita. Other than that, I always buy games physically. If I won't be able to, that's fine. I'll just not buy them.
I have already survived by not buying any PS5 games due to the controller not being comfortable for me and the dumb decision to lock game saves to a cloud service you have to pay for.
I can back up PS4 game saves on a USB on PS5...but not PS5 game saves? Ridiculous.
In canada alot of digital games on the store have weird peices like 93$ when the physical is still 89:99
I’m laughing at the thumbnail cuz here in my country a PS5 disc of FF7 Remake is way cheaper than its Steam price.
Yeah but if you look up Final Fantasy seven rebirth intergrade they didn't make a lot of physical copies and that's why that one has a higher value not regular Final Fantasy seven remake
Intergraded copy!
@@ashgaming7045There is no Rebirth Intergrade
This is so crazy. I was just thinking EXACTLY THIS today as I checked up on Metaphor Refantazio's physical edition price. Usually its way cheaper physical but not this time. Astro Bot was 519dkk digital, and 399dkk physical. But Refantazio was 519dkk digital and 499dkk physical.
It feels so random lmao
Another way of saying what Ryan said about the physical/digital split is that the percentage incorporates "all games with an up-front cost" including all games sold on PSN. It is not a 1 to 1 comparison between just games with a physical print. Frankly its a disingenuous number because its not what it looks like it is. I wish Sony would give us what that number actually is because so many take it as "physical is dying" and I dont believe it is. Digital more popular? Yes. Physical dying? No, not to me.
Convenience is king. Look at what happened cds, dvds and books. Imagine on your phone if you had to switch out a memory card every time wanted to play a different game. It would be silly. All physical media will eventually become niche.
I went digital midway through ps4 gen, it’s great. I gameshare with my brother, he can play all my games and I can play his. We can even play the same game at the same time, With physical we’d need 2 copies.
I saw a "Ubisoft XBOX - €5" labeled bin at a big brick and mortar retailer today. Sealed copies of FarCry6 were in there among other Series S/X Ubisoft games. At launch the Ultra whatever deluxe edition had cost €129 iirc
70$ game in india is big crime. People here playing PUBG free and thats enough for them. Games being overpriced is the reason why no one cares about these games.
What are you even saying ??? Other than a few pre-order games( even those don't cost more than 4000 usually) most of PS5 games are in the range 2000-4000 including cross gen titles) You can check the prices of Until Dawn and Silent Hill 2 discs, they are priced at 4000! Tell me one current game( not pre-order or ultimate edition) that is more than 5000( cleary less than 70 dollars as you said) Rupees in India.
Having said all that, Playstation is a luxury console and the games are a luxury for gamers in India.But there is little to no overlap between the people who play PUBG or free FPS mobile games and the people who own a playstation. Console gamers are more likely to have a PC for Laptop whether they play FPS on rather than playing on mobile.
I would love if Sony implemented regional pricing in India like steam on both PSN and the discs. They should also market their console and the games a lot better than whatever they are doing now, maybe as an aspirational product.
Unless you are into games and go to youtube or other websites where there is already an active community, you would never be able to know what new games are releasing. No new at all about anything. It's so bad.
Since we don't even contribute 1% of the sales of PS5, sony basically gives no thought to us at all.
70 bucks when you're playing the game multiple times is not a lot of money people... save up
Poo in loo.
Not being able to afford them =/= overpriced
@@ashgaming7045The average salary in India is like $200-300 lol
Good to see local store (to me) Video Game Plus get noticed. 2nd video that I saw that mentions them, and she is based in Alberta.
I’m mostly buying games from the Japanese PSN nowadays. Thanks to the exchange rate they’re basically 50 % off and nowadays they’re all multi language. Also the games release like almost a day early there 😊
I will always continue to buy physical games whenever it’s possible. If a game is digitally available, it better only be available digitally because the Indy developer could not afford to physically produce a copy. 10 out of 10 times my wallet will buy a physical game that I want whereas two out of 10 times I may consider buying a digital game.
If the PS6 doesn't even have the option for physical media, I'm switching to PC
Is physical big on PC? I thought Steam was the metric for how popular a game is and it’s completely digital.
@@thatonegeeksite5251 Steam and GOG are the only reliable digital stores, your games will never be removed from your library even if you're banned. People who purchased games or DLC on Steam from 2006 can still play them today. Only way these are gone is if the companies go bankrupt but Valve is the literal market leader to the point they don't even need to make games anymore and GOG is DRM free so you can backup your game installers in case anything bad happens.
Epic, PSN, Uplay and the Xbox Store on the other hand are extremely unreliable and you can lose your licenses for no reason. This is why console players refuse digital.
@@thatonegeeksite5251 no, but it a least offers multiple storefronts (Steam, Epic, GOG, ect), so there's competition. If you buy a digital only Playstation console, you're stuck with the one storefront.
Better switch to Nintendo.
Pick physical over digital any day of the week! If it doesn't come in a physical copy, I don't buy it! As soon as you let physical games die, you let history die with it xx
I don’t want to ever go full digital
@@zigzagblazer-x8l lol
I’ll always be there for physical release. I think I’ve bought one game digitally this whole gen and that’s only because I had no choice at the time. That was was tomb raider remastered and that’s getting a physical version which I’ll be buying
I only buy digital when the game is SUBSTANTIALLY discounted.
discounted*
@@TheBrandonnnn fixed. Thanks!
I would be very curious to see what’s the physical/digital ratio if the generic yearly sports/shooter games are taken out of the equation (Fifa, COD, 2K etc.). Those games sell a lot, and make sense to be bought digitally because they are intended to be played all year long, and have no resell value from next year.
I’m pretty sure if those are not counted, physical sells equally, if not more than digital.
I’ve had to cut back on physical just recently as I’m simply running out of room space to keep them. Having moved two years ago the thought of having all this library that I’m most likely never going back to was one factor. It’s just getting more convenient to download it and have it ready to play release day.
I recommend using cd binders! You can recycle the boxes for the games where you don't really want the box or you are not planning on selling! I also recycled most of my game boxes and only kept those with collectors edition and games that I might sell.
Until your hard drive is corrupted and you lose all your digital copies... lmao
@@shunketsuchannelplease don't do this.
I am always an advocate for physical games. For a few reasons, as a hobby collector i like to see & display the collection, in future could get some return back for the investment. I can play games unpatched if needed, or once license has ran out ie Marvel games etc i will always have a copy instead of getting romoved of the store. I also see digital as more of a life rental not a purchase because you cannot control it, like the subscription model the way Sony remove games every month but also talk about increase pricing.
Another fine example of this also is Concord, those that picked it up physically although cannot play it at least you retain a piece of history you cannot get anymore
If you bought the game, it doesn't matter if it's removed from the store. I own the digital Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate for Xbox/Windows and I can still go to my Windows store games, download the game and play. Same thing with the classic GTA Trilogy on PS4 which was delisted in favor of the "definitive editions". I bought the originals when they released so I can still play them on PS4 and PS5 since they're backwards compatible.
Physical forever ❤
I'd love to spend more money on physical, problem is I don't have space for them (one room apartment). 😕