Nintendo's attitude is why I will never feel guilty pirating any games that are no longer manufactured, because that is the only way you will ever play them.
the 3ds homebrew community saved my 3ds from sitting in my drawer, homebrew gives life to older systems, so there isn't an excuse for nintendo or sony to say "we can't support these systems anymore" because if people at home are doing it out of sheer passion, then these massive companies can definitely sort out an alternative approach to this issue.
yep, hacked my 3DS and my Vita. The Vita was even more important, since it allowed the use of Micro SD cards instead of the proprietary cards sony used.
Absolutely. Hacking the 3ds is the way to go. Not to mention it is powerful enough to run most ps1 games. The "new" 3ds xl runs Castlevania SOTN nearly perfect
Homebrew is a godsend. I have it on my PSP, PS Vita, DSi, N3DS, Wii U, and I'm getting the stuff to put it on my Switch soon (though that one's pretty much just for the custom themes lol)
@@elijahvincent985 yea physical allows for better preservation. Retro collectors trying to rebuild their PS5 collection from their childhood will be out of luck in 20 years
I think Microsoft is handling the situation very well, especially with there idea to give digital licenses to people who bought the physical disk. Also, they have the same store for all their consoles so games will always be able to download, receive updates, or beable to be purchased as long as the publisher let's it. I feel like nintendo and Sony can learn from Microsoft
I don't understand why Xbox is one of the lowest selling consoles, if Microsoft is handling things so well. I recently found my Sonic Unleashed disc for Xbox 360, a game I loved as a kid which I can play perfectly fine today on an Xbox One Series X, Without having to pay again for the digital version! Something that is unthinkable on Nintendo or PlayStation.
I love having a physical collection, however so many games need patches nowadays that if there is no longer a store to download those patches, some games become unplayable. Imagine in the future someone bought a game like No Man's Sky on disc, because that is the only way to play (legally), more than half the game is missing. You might could patch it with some shady sites claiming to have patches. There needs to be a way to play and download games even after the consoles life cycle is over. If you can't buy it or get it for free legally (not used), and also not as a paid service like NSO, it should be legal to pirate it.
These major gaming software distribution companies have all the power to scr*w over their player bases. I think the model should change though if we are moving to a digital only future: Have a Primary market for new release games, where anything that is currently getting maintained and updated on a regular basis is sold to those who are able to play the popular games. Once a game is deemed ‘outdated’ for whatever reason, move it to a secondary site, where the games are sold at a discount, and are only minimally maintained with patches to keep it from crashing on modern hardware. Once the company decides it isn’t financially viable to continue maintaining it, flag it as open source and remove the price completely. That way it is still accessible to anyone who still wants to play it, but with the understanding that they can maintain and update the game themselves or via a third party as required to with no penalty. This way they still retain distribution rights if required (or make available to other distributors) but they can build respect with their players. They can still have a subscription on the secondary site to cover the costs of storage, maintenance, etc, but the games themselves won’t have individual costs for something the company no longer cares about
Also another thing to add about steam, is that you don't have to redownload games. I just recently did a fresh install of windows for my pc upgrade. All I did was login, change the download location to my library, and boom everything was ready to play
You guys made me realize, the only system I don't pirate is PC games. Why? Cause everything is on steam. Valve did beat piracy, at least for me. Your right, Nintendo and Sony need to step up.
Heck even Apple still keeps the iTunes and App Stores available for even the original iPhone and lets you download the last compatible versions of apps. Really surprising for a company (in)famous for doing everything they can just to get people to upgrade to their latest devices.
@hwat Compatibility concerns can be true. But at least it used to be that you could use a contemporary device to download the app. Nick Robinson did a whole series about this to try and save the Dominos Miku app.
You mean the company that requires specific OS versions to download even the most basic apps like TH-cam but prevents older devices from getting them to force people to buy the newer phone? Or how they discontinued the ipod making it basically useless? Yeah, definitely a great comparison...
My take on piracy is a little different from you guys. I'm 100% in favor of it. I will pirate any game I feel like playing, and any time my favorites get modernly accessible versions (like the Mega Man /X/Zero Legacy collections) I'll give the publisher my money for it, but generally the pirated versions in emulators are going to have better features than the official releases and I'm going to play the better version.
6:20 Me and a couple of folks I know been saying the exact same thing when it comes to Blockchain tech. This pretty much rejuvenates the Used Game market but for the Digital Age where you can trade games licenses between people with their own money/crypto or just trade them without logging in to an account and giving your friend your credentials to play the game.
In Germany we have a central library for books. If you publish a book you have to submit a copy of it. Why not do something similar on an international basis for the digital age?
As far as my knowledge goes you can read every book they archived. You have to get a visitor pass and spend your day in the building, so you can enjoy the books.
I think it is fine to pirate if the companies keep refusing to give you retro game options or shut down the existing stores like with the Wii/Wii U virtual consoles. we have been very patient with Sony but they are just now getting their feet wet with retro game rereleases other than ps1 on PS3 and a couple of ps2 games. they need to really step it up more than this flimsy ps plus update they just dropped
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
Thanks for sharing. I totally love digital copies, but same time I like physical copies. Now if Nintendo has it so say you baught a game from 10 years ago and still want to download it and you can even if its 30 years in future, that would be great. But fact they basicaly brick things, sucks.
im in the camp of owning games digital since physical games take up a lot of space in my house, but what im totally not in favor of is games as a service where i gotta pay monthly since i dont make enough to realy do that
Think steam does the best digital because even when a game gets taken down I can still download the game I bought. Such as Transformers Devastation which can't be bought cause activision lost the license I can still download it. Heck I plus with how the switch is acting I may get a steam deck later on.
I used to want all the DS Pokémon games, started getting both versions with BW2, and considered buying the back-catalog. I thought they'd come down in price over time...
Maybe a lot of people don't know it, but big companies do preserve games within the source code and documented and stored. Its called preservation on a company level. But Nintendo and Sony does not preserve their game on a consumer licensing level due to console cycles. And this is where Microsoft has the upper hand, since they can automatically scale any game easily without doing anything to the source code of the games and with smart delivery, all older titles are playable right from the start on a new console or PC or a handheld or what have you on digital scale. I hope in the future we will see more enhanced DOS games upscaled with A.I and preserved on a consumer level.
After the collab video with Jake Simmons I started getting back into my old Nintendo handhelds and wanted to replay gen 5 without restarting my games with all my pokemon (because I never got a 3DS or Gen 6 or beyond) and was shook by the price of the games. Holy sh*t. Abandoned that idea and instead kept on playing Black and Black 2 without restarting.
@@cardsfanbj Since you already have the game, you could use a 3DS homebrew called Checkpoint to backup your save file to safely restart the game. I think there's probably alternatives if you don't have a 3DS but I think you should try getting a 3DS while it still cheap right now.
Me with my $500+ copy of Tron Bonne CIB that I got at a garage sale for a few bucks. 😎 Also got a backwards compatible PS3 at the same garage sale. The collecting scene is still very much alive.
I really don't think Austin ever does research for the most part if you don't connect online to Microsoft servers your games will flat out not play without authentication only some work comeplety offline . If we are going by ethical I wonder what people would consider what's ok when a game still needs a patch but I still have my copys or just flat out downloading everything patches game and dlc🤔 if you can go on reddit you can find everything you need I suggest the automod carefully read what it's saying
A super sore subject for me right now. So annoyed at how everyone is treating this whole situation. :( Bottom line is I think the video game industry does an amazing job at f***ing their playbases.
with my PS5 I've got nothing but physical games.. what gets me is that if you try to install a PS5 disc it tries to download the entire contents of the disc from the internet instead of copying from the disk..
Bruh I bought the iPad mini because of you! And I freaking love it! Such a tiny and cute screeeeeen omg! Apple MUST release an iPhone of the same size of iPad mini… with oled and 120hz and I’m going to pay whatever premium price they ask for that! With 1tb memory definitely
1:12 you love having all your games at your fingertips?... What if... Better yet... When! When that studio that owns your favourite game gets bought by a different studio and it decides that you don't own a goddamn thing now!
I've been switching to flash carts and emulation on physical systems (like my homebrewed 3ds) cause some of my games are no longer working... the battery (or flash memory idk exactly) to my favorite game, Pokemon Platinum, died years ago.
I have the ps3 slim with physical discs and I can still play the games even though they are no longer be supported, the same can't be said with digital copies since you can't play the digital copies once they stopped be supported. Companies know that people want digital for convenience at the cost of no long term support and the money people that pay for digital copies just get thrown away since digital copies can't be kept forever and be taken away any time. Even Sony admits that people that bought movies can't keep them due to licensing issues and they even removed the movies that people bought from there video libraries. I just hope this does not happen with games in the future by going all digital. It's the same reason why I buy physical copies of movies, cds and game consoles with discs.
I was indifferent for the longest time about digital. As my kids got older and more into games, we started running into issues sharing. My daughter wanted to play Tomadachi Life on her DS. Mine is digital. Can't share it with her. Had issues in Steam with games on my account my son wanted to play while I was playing online. On our consoles, I try to get as much physical as I can now.
@@The_MEMEphis I don't have Xbox but the steam family sharing is pretty much useless for me. Only one person at a time can be playing any game out of your library. That is not what sharing is like if it's physical media.
@@rolandk2403 yeah luckily I just checked my email I had 24 hours left on it to purchase, especially since my steam account is on my old email which I rarely check, I reserved mine the first day is was available
Fight the machine! Physical copies only whenever possible! Search the sales, raid the bargain bins! Only buy the cheapest digital version whenever possible! E-Mail companies for physical with nice trinkets for collectors (like a poster or keychain)
I think physical copies had a lot of impact around the world and should be still sold but instead should be chipped to the person who bought it. Even though this only works with old games because any of the new games now a days you need to install the game. You cant just put in the disk and play, thats lost already. I dont mind the digital because you move them to a storage since is already installed is all about move and play. But thats just what i think and who ever buys the games on disks should read and play not waiting for a stupid install to then actually play.
Valve, Microsoft, and Sony should bring to life trading Digital keys. If I buy a digital copy of a game and hate it... It just sits in my library. Vice versa for someone else and if we wanted to trade those hated games I mean why not?
Instead of Nintendo or other companies making 1000 stores for their games, have them all on the same store and playable on their supported devices. Steam is a great example. Games from 20 years ago are still on there.
honestly, I think the availability of easy emulation for basically every PlayStation game makes up for a lot of Sony's mistakes, but to be fair, it just isn't the same sometimes
I do not agree that physical game collecting is the way to preserve games. Collecting is fun, yes. But true game preservation, to me, is digital. Digitizing old games to keep them available.
torrent sites are still a big thing....can get many games...roms...psp games..not counting movirs and music..can have a huge collection if you do it right....love the vids guys.
I’d prefer to stay physical games but to many new/rereleases need updates or patches to even run or worst connect to the internet at least once to verify its not pirated I’ve given in to the digital future. Pretty much buying them physically at this point for nostalgia. It really bugs me that if I buy a digital game these days it can be corrupted if I connect to the internet because the company wouldn’t want anyone playing it anymore or whatever.
EA too also. Like dead space series, command and conquer series, star wars series, medal of honor and the latest series they destroy is battlefield...Someone has to critic EA of how they killed so many games series over the years...
ubisoft just nuked 90 titles' servers from older platforms as well including tom clancy's rainbox six vegas 1 & 2 as well as just dance 2013-2018 among many other titles.
Yup true but not as bad as 2042. Just released and EA is still in denial of a failed released. I do enjoy ubisoft titles game much more like siege the crew and the division tho i think there are more rooms for ubisoft to improve in developing newer title. EA on the other hand i guess i will NOT preorder to shitty release by them or until a positive reviews from gaming youtuber. Even microsoft develop more better games than EA. Shame on this greedy EA as a whole.
This is a really, really, REALLY hot take, but I feel like a lot of people will agree with me on this, including the This Is channel crew: If there's no official means of paying companies like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft or other developers of the games, to play them, I'm just gonna freely download the ROM online for it. Obviously I would go to places like Bookmans for most of them, but there are games out there that aren't ever at places like that, giving me no other options to play them EXCEPT for downloading the ROMs for them. Is it illegal? No, since there aren't any ways to pay in order to play the games. Yeah, there are people on eBay and stuff who sell official copies of games, only way more expensive, but IT ISN'T VERY LIKELY that those sellers will give that money they make from selling them to those companies
I see the appeal and the advantage of going all digital but I would still prefer having physical cartridge or disc. I would like to have the option of selling my games later when I chose to do so in the future and that's hard to do with digital. I also think Microsoft is doing a great job in preserving their games by making almost everything backwards compatible with their current generation systems, and also selling them on their digital stores. Not everyone will use that feature but it sure is nice to have that when you want to play some older games. Nintendo and Sony should copy what Microsoft is doing especially Nintendo.
When I bought a Playstation in Kazakhstan and for many years I bought games on Russian accounts, and these freaks simply locked up the region and there is no way to withdraw money. Playstation 5 digital turned into a brick
Conversations about game preservation always make me upset, because many people bring up that if Nintendo doesn't wanna provide a legal way to play a game, then you don't have a right to play it. Maybe, but that doesn't mean games should die and be forgotten! The digital age scares me, and not just in terms of games
Anyone who says that is stupid, if companies do this then they just give people Nother reason to pirate.
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The Microsoft is dealing with preservation and gamepass made me buy an Xbox. The day Nintendo made that Mario collection a limited time sale the only legal way of getting them, I gave away my 3ds and started hating Nintendo. They have to do something major to change my mind.
My big thing is GameStop's trade in system. I no longer have some of my favorite games because little kid me traded all of them in for some game I don't even remember.
Valve's digital games are... OK. The main place where it falls down is not being able to use multiple games at the same time. Not such a big deal when you're an individual but when you start getting kids at an age where they might want to play some games, well, with a disc you could just let them use the disc while you play a different game.
Family Sharing lets you share the library on multiple accounts, so you can have a single library and play Dragon Age while someone else is playing Skyrim. It even has a feature where in order to play a game the account who doesn't own it has to request to play, so you can stop them from playing any games you feel they shouldn't be playing yet
@@elk3407 Yeah, that also requires that your kids have accounts - which is fine if you have older kids, but not so much for younger ones. Would be easier if you could just play up to 5 games simultaneously. It's also not out of the question to play two games simultaneously, especially if one of them is a more idle game.
Everyone can hate on me as much as they want for this, but I believe that collectors ruin every market they touch by artificially raising the prices of things to the extreme just because something is old or rare.
I miss when gaming was offline. No Console/Game needing to be done before you can play. Seriously it's why I do mostly collect ps3 era and backwards. Just so much easier.
Definately going digital at the start of a games relese is the way to go. Since games obviouly get so many updates and DLC it makes owning the original physical release useless. Then do a complete physical release at the end of a games lifesycle. Like a GOTY or complete edition. To satisfy those who want one for there collection. It's just sad that most PC games these days never get physical releases.
Both. I want physical and digital. I want them to give me the game digitally AS WELL if I bought a physical copy. I have no idea how that isn't a thing???
I literally trashed all my physical games a few months ago. Went all in digital 10 years ago and haven't had a disc drive since in any of my computers. On PC, Digital games are forever... And Nintendo/Sony games live on as ROMS to play in higher quality on my computer. 🤷♂️ I do wish companies offered digital copies forever instead of needing to pirate them, though. It wouldn't cost up that much more to keep hosting a digital copy of a game that's not too popular to distribute on a single server and make it a Torrent.
“Digital games live on forever” Until the company that made it goes out of business, or the game store does out of business, or the console gets old and it’s no longer profitable to keep the store open ( which has already happened with multiple game systems), furthermore what you are recommending is piracy, which I don’t mind, however 90% of people don’t want to go through the trouble of setting up an emulator
what if companies could sell reproductions of media for items that are no longer sold by the original manufacturers. IE. N64 carts no longer sold by Nintendo? Then anyone else could sell that reproduction.
Nintendo's attitude is why I will never feel guilty pirating any games that are no longer manufactured, because that is the only way you will ever play them.
the 3ds homebrew community saved my 3ds from sitting in my drawer, homebrew gives life to older systems, so there isn't an excuse for nintendo or sony to say "we can't support these systems anymore" because if people at home are doing it out of sheer passion, then these massive companies can definitely sort out an alternative approach to this issue.
"We sell systems at a lose, so people will buy them." Every console maker. PC Master Race.
yep, hacked my 3DS and my Vita. The Vita was even more important, since it allowed the use of Micro SD cards instead of the proprietary cards sony used.
Absolutely. Hacking the 3ds is the way to go. Not to mention it is powerful enough to run most ps1 games. The "new" 3ds xl runs Castlevania SOTN nearly perfect
Homebrew is a godsend. I have it on my PSP, PS Vita, DSi, N3DS, Wii U, and I'm getting the stuff to put it on my Switch soon (though that one's pretty much just for the custom themes lol)
@@RogueRen The wii U is so goated, I wish I had one, at least i have the wii lol
Digital is absolutely convenient, but nothing beats a collection of physical copies, where you feel like you really "own" the game 🎮
Until it vanishes from the store and doesn't work on your device. Then you're really in a pickle. It's gone... FOREVER.
@@elijahvincent985 yea physical allows for better preservation. Retro collectors trying to rebuild their PS5 collection from their childhood will be out of luck in 20 years
I would’ve never thought one of my DS games would be worth $200
Same I got my Pokémon black 2 from a secondhand game store for like $25 when I was 12 now it’s unbelievable how much the Price has gone up
@@FarRow24 I got one about 2 years ago from a second hand game store, and it was only about $40-$50. The price has really shot up.
@@sholomshpitsek8445 even though they've sold on the millions..
I'm the one who is buying them and resaleing them
yeah, I wish I didn't sell my DS and games when I had it like 10 years ago
I think Microsoft is handling the situation very well, especially with there idea to give digital licenses to people who bought the physical disk. Also, they have the same store for all their consoles so games will always be able to download, receive updates, or beable to be purchased as long as the publisher let's it. I feel like nintendo and Sony can learn from Microsoft
I don't understand why Xbox is one of the lowest selling consoles, if Microsoft is handling things so well. I recently found my Sonic Unleashed disc for Xbox 360, a game I loved as a kid which I can play perfectly fine today on an Xbox One Series X, Without having to pay again for the digital version! Something that is unthinkable on Nintendo or PlayStation.
I love having a physical collection, however so many games need patches nowadays that if there is no longer a store to download those patches, some games become unplayable. Imagine in the future someone bought a game like No Man's Sky on disc, because that is the only way to play (legally), more than half the game is missing. You might could patch it with some shady sites claiming to have patches. There needs to be a way to play and download games even after the consoles life cycle is over. If you can't buy it or get it for free legally (not used), and also not as a paid service like NSO, it should be legal to pirate it.
These major gaming software distribution companies have all the power to scr*w over their player bases. I think the model should change though if we are moving to a digital only future:
Have a Primary market for new release games, where anything that is currently getting maintained and updated on a regular basis is sold to those who are able to play the popular games.
Once a game is deemed ‘outdated’ for whatever reason, move it to a secondary site, where the games are sold at a discount, and are only minimally maintained with patches to keep it from crashing on modern hardware.
Once the company decides it isn’t financially viable to continue maintaining it, flag it as open source and remove the price completely. That way it is still accessible to anyone who still wants to play it, but with the understanding that they can maintain and update the game themselves or via a third party as required to with no penalty.
This way they still retain distribution rights if required (or make available to other distributors) but they can build respect with their players. They can still have a subscription on the secondary site to cover the costs of storage, maintenance, etc, but the games themselves won’t have individual costs for something the company no longer cares about
Also another thing to add about steam, is that you don't have to redownload games. I just recently did a fresh install of windows for my pc upgrade. All I did was login, change the download location to my library, and boom everything was ready to play
You guys made me realize, the only system I don't pirate is PC games. Why? Cause everything is on steam. Valve did beat piracy, at least for me. Your right, Nintendo and Sony need to step up.
Heck even Apple still keeps the iTunes and App Stores available for even the original iPhone and lets you download the last compatible versions of apps. Really surprising for a company (in)famous for doing everything they can just to get people to upgrade to their latest devices.
They and Google have stated that they want to remove ‘abandoned’ apps, so that might not last sadly
@hwat Compatibility concerns can be true. But at least it used to be that you could use a contemporary device to download the app.
Nick Robinson did a whole series about this to try and save the Dominos Miku app.
@hwat Could be devs delisting from the page? A lot of Rovio games aren’t on their page, but I can still find them in my Purchases
It did not even come with it from the factory though.
You mean the company that requires specific OS versions to download even the most basic apps like TH-cam but prevents older devices from getting them to force people to buy the newer phone? Or how they discontinued the ipod making it basically useless?
Yeah, definitely a great comparison...
My take on piracy is a little different from you guys. I'm 100% in favor of it. I will pirate any game I feel like playing, and any time my favorites get modernly accessible versions (like the Mega Man /X/Zero Legacy collections) I'll give the publisher my money for it, but generally the pirated versions in emulators are going to have better features than the official releases and I'm going to play the better version.
6:20 Me and a couple of folks I know been saying the exact same thing when it comes to Blockchain tech. This pretty much rejuvenates the Used Game market but for the Digital Age where you can trade games licenses between people with their own money/crypto or just trade them without logging in to an account and giving your friend your credentials to play the game.
In Germany we have a central library for books. If you publish a book you have to submit a copy of it. Why not do something similar on an international basis for the digital age?
This is a good idea and I’m interested in how this functions as well as the origin of us. Is it mostly a repository? 🤔
As far as my knowledge goes you can read every book they archived. You have to get a visitor pass and spend your day in the building, so you can enjoy the books.
@@abwesend1758 that is freaking awesome. So like, it’s open to the public in some way, like a library you can’t borrow from? Colour me impressed.
Anyone else binge watch between Austin , this is , and denki until new vids come out 😁
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@@austinevans yessir Best way to spend time on TH-cam ! let Matt and ken know that Wish misses them a lot
Yea
Austin mostly, love those mystery tech vids
I remember organizing my small collection of PS1 games so many times. Kids now don't have the same love of collecting and organizing.
6:10 that's actually a really good idea Matt, I wish you had the power to make that happen.
by far one of the best videos today. This is is killing it
I think it is fine to pirate if the companies keep refusing to give you retro game options or shut down the existing stores like with the Wii/Wii U virtual consoles. we have been very patient with Sony but they are just now getting their feet wet with retro game rereleases other than ps1 on PS3 and a couple of ps2 games. they need to really step it up more than this flimsy ps plus update they just dropped
Old WWE games are my childhood. They will never be sold or released due to THQ’s demise.
These videos make my day no cap
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
The problem is that the moment they don't support it then you can't just it anymore
I'm happy seeing you talk about this. It's something that's been bothering me for a long time. :,)
Thanks for sharing. I totally love digital copies, but same time I like physical copies. Now if Nintendo has it so say you baught a game from 10 years ago and still want to download it and you can even if its 30 years in future, that would be great. But fact they basicaly brick things, sucks.
im in the camp of owning games digital since physical games take up a lot of space in my house, but what im totally not in favor of is games as a service where i gotta pay monthly since i dont make enough to realy do that
Think steam does the best digital because even when a game gets taken down I can still download the game I bought. Such as Transformers Devastation which can't be bought cause activision lost the license I can still download it. Heck I plus with how the switch is acting I may get a steam deck later on.
Remember: you can't steal from corporations. It's called "reclamation".
I used to want all the DS Pokémon games, started getting both versions with BW2, and considered buying the back-catalog. I thought they'd come down in price over time...
It’s sad but publishers don’t want perpetual licenses. They want to drive the scarcity model.
Maybe a lot of people don't know it, but big companies do preserve games within the source code and documented and stored.
Its called preservation on a company level.
But Nintendo and Sony does not preserve their game on a consumer licensing level due to console cycles.
And this is where Microsoft has the upper hand, since they can automatically scale any game easily without doing anything to the source code of the games and with smart delivery, all older titles are playable right from the start on a new console or PC or a handheld or what have you on digital scale.
I hope in the future we will see more enhanced DOS games upscaled with A.I and preserved on a consumer level.
anyone else been a fan of austin for years?
I see good in both physical and Digital but I like physical most of the games I care about I will get physical or have both
After the collab video with Jake Simmons I started getting back into my old Nintendo handhelds and wanted to replay gen 5 without restarting my games with all my pokemon (because I never got a 3DS or Gen 6 or beyond) and was shook by the price of the games. Holy sh*t. Abandoned that idea and instead kept on playing Black and Black 2 without restarting.
Gen 3 is still expensive compared to what they originally sold for, and Gen 4 are more expensive, but they're still not as bad as Gen 5.
@@cardsfanbj Since you already have the game, you could use a 3DS homebrew called Checkpoint to backup your save file to safely restart the game. I think there's probably alternatives if you don't have a 3DS but I think you should try getting a 3DS while it still cheap right now.
Me with my $500+ copy of Tron Bonne CIB that I got at a garage sale for a few bucks. 😎 Also got a backwards compatible PS3 at the same garage sale. The collecting scene is still very much alive.
I really don't think Austin ever does research for the most part if you don't connect online to Microsoft servers your games will flat out not play without authentication only some work comeplety offline .
If we are going by ethical I wonder what people would consider what's ok when a game still needs a patch but I still have my copys or just flat out downloading everything patches game and dlc🤔 if you can go on reddit you can find everything you need I suggest the automod carefully read what it's saying
A super sore subject for me right now. So annoyed at how everyone is treating this whole situation. :(
Bottom line is I think the video game industry does an amazing job at f***ing their playbases.
Its not just the video game industry, it's just humans. It's what we do.
with my PS5 I've got nothing but physical games.. what gets me is that if you try to install a PS5 disc it tries to download the entire contents of the disc from the internet instead of copying from the disk..
Bruh I bought the iPad mini because of you! And I freaking love it! Such a tiny and cute screeeeeen omg! Apple MUST release an iPhone of the same size of iPad mini… with oled and 120hz and I’m going to pay whatever premium price they ask for that! With 1tb memory definitely
$50+ for a copy of Pokemon yellow for GB
5mins of time for emulation
Im not spending $50+ on a 20yr old game for a hit of nostalgia
1:12 you love having all your games at your fingertips?... What if... Better yet... When! When that studio that owns your favourite game gets bought by a different studio and it decides that you don't own a goddamn thing now!
I think it would be nice if they implemented a digital trade in system to trade in digital titles for credit to use on other games
*Looks over at my 7 year old laptop full of rom*
So glad I kept this.
Honestly at this point I think people have just forgot there are some people who don't have wifi and physical games are all we can get
Technically physical games in boxes are still "at your fingertips" you just have to get up and change them out. LOL
2:50 i bought driver san Francisco and they removed it from steam but i can still play it to this day
Dam the white2 and black 2 remasters/remakes are gonna be scary because there probably gonna be bad
I've been switching to flash carts and emulation on physical systems (like my homebrewed 3ds) cause some of my games are no longer working... the battery (or flash memory idk exactly) to my favorite game, Pokemon Platinum, died years ago.
Ape Escape is actually on ps plus premium. They added trophies too
I have the ps3 slim with physical discs and I can still play the games even though they are no longer be supported, the same can't be said with digital copies since you can't play the digital copies once they stopped be supported. Companies know that people want digital for convenience at the cost of no long term support and the money people that pay for digital copies just get thrown away since digital copies can't be kept forever and be taken away any time. Even Sony admits that people that bought movies can't keep them due to licensing issues and they even removed the movies that people bought from there video libraries. I just hope this does not happen with games in the future by going all digital. It's the same reason why I buy physical copies of movies, cds and game consoles with discs.
I'm only here to watch Matt have a heart attack live
Selling one copy of Battletoads. sniffed heavily. $420.69 OBO
nice
Only thing good about physical games is if you aren't a stingy D bag, you can loan them out, give them away, or sell them.
I was indifferent for the longest time about digital. As my kids got older and more into games, we started running into issues sharing. My daughter wanted to play Tomadachi Life on her DS. Mine is digital. Can't share it with her. Had issues in Steam with games on my account my son wanted to play while I was playing online. On our consoles, I try to get as much physical as I can now.
On Xbox you can share your digital games across multiple systems, you can do that on steam too
@@The_MEMEphis I don't have Xbox but the steam family sharing is pretty much useless for me. Only one person at a time can be playing any game out of your library. That is not what sharing is like if it's physical media.
@@rolandk2403 just got my steam deck reservation in
@@The_MEMEphis I reserved in May. Supposedly on October or soon after I should get my 72 hour window. I have a feeling I'm going to miss the email.
@@rolandk2403 yeah luckily I just checked my email I had 24 hours left on it to purchase, especially since my steam account is on my old email which I rarely check, I reserved mine the first day is was available
Matt is spitting! Like at least let me own a (gonna hate this) non-fungible version of the game. Non-copiable version of a game. Need it.
Fight the machine! Physical copies only whenever possible! Search the sales, raid the bargain bins! Only buy the cheapest digital version whenever possible! E-Mail companies for physical with nice trinkets for collectors (like a poster or keychain)
I think physical copies had a lot of impact around the world and should be still sold but instead should be chipped to the person who bought it. Even though this only works with old games because any of the new games now a days you need to install the game. You cant just put in the disk and play, thats lost already. I dont mind the digital because you move them to a storage since is already installed is all about move and play. But thats just what i think and who ever buys the games on disks should read and play not waiting for a stupid install to then actually play.
Luckily the pirate ROM scene is still plenty alive and kicking for everything n64 and older. F Nintendo and it's entire business plan! 😆
Austin should do a video buying a brand new DS lite with a Flash cart and showing off the cool stuff you can do with it.
Valve, Microsoft, and Sony should bring to life trading Digital keys. If I buy a digital copy of a game and hate it... It just sits in my library. Vice versa for someone else and if we wanted to trade those hated games I mean why not?
Instead of Nintendo or other companies making 1000 stores for their games, have them all on the same store and playable on their supported devices. Steam is a great example. Games from 20 years ago are still on there.
People spend more time talking about old games than actually playing them. Any game actually worth playing has been well preserved.
gog is definitely does it the best where you actually own your digital games
honestly, I think the availability of easy emulation for basically every PlayStation game makes up for a lot of Sony's mistakes, but to be fair, it just isn't the same sometimes
I do not agree that physical game collecting is the way to preserve games. Collecting is fun, yes. But true game preservation, to me, is digital. Digitizing old games to keep them available.
I miss collecting physical video games so i can still play without depending on the internet to play.
torrent sites are still a big thing....can get many games...roms...psp games..not counting movirs and music..can have a huge collection if you do it right....love the vids guys.
I’d prefer to stay physical games but to many new/rereleases need updates or patches to even run or worst connect to the internet at least once to verify its not pirated I’ve given in to the digital future. Pretty much buying them physically at this point for nostalgia. It really bugs me that if I buy a digital game these days it can be corrupted if I connect to the internet because the company wouldn’t want anyone playing it anymore or whatever.
I remember my first game that required steam was Rome: Total War. This was in 2004.
EA too also. Like dead space series, command and conquer series, star wars series, medal of honor and the latest series they destroy is battlefield...Someone has to critic EA of how they killed so many games series over the years...
ubisoft just nuked 90 titles' servers from older platforms as well including tom clancy's rainbox six vegas 1 & 2 as well as just dance 2013-2018 among many other titles.
Yup true but not as bad as 2042. Just released and EA is still in denial of a failed released. I do enjoy ubisoft titles game much more like siege the crew and the division tho i think there are more rooms for ubisoft to improve in developing newer title. EA on the other hand i guess i will NOT preorder to shitty release by them or until a positive reviews from gaming youtuber. Even microsoft develop more better games than EA. Shame on this greedy EA as a whole.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me 🏴☠️
This is a really, really, REALLY hot take, but I feel like a lot of people will agree with me on this, including the This Is channel crew: If there's no official means of paying companies like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft or other developers of the games, to play them, I'm just gonna freely download the ROM online for it.
Obviously I would go to places like Bookmans for most of them, but there are games out there that aren't ever at places like that, giving me no other options to play them EXCEPT for downloading the ROMs for them. Is it illegal? No, since there aren't any ways to pay in order to play the games. Yeah, there are people on eBay and stuff who sell official copies of games, only way more expensive, but IT ISN'T VERY LIKELY that those sellers will give that money they make from selling them to those companies
Matt is a treasure bruh
The pirate at the bay. Will never let them fade away.
I see the appeal and the advantage of going all digital but I would still prefer having physical cartridge or disc. I would like to have the option of selling my games later when I chose to do so in the future and that's hard to do with digital.
I also think Microsoft is doing a great job in preserving their games by making almost everything backwards compatible with their current generation systems, and also selling them on their digital stores. Not everyone will use that feature but it sure is nice to have that when you want to play some older games. Nintendo and Sony should copy what Microsoft is doing especially Nintendo.
When I bought a Playstation in Kazakhstan and for many years I bought games on Russian accounts, and these freaks simply locked up the region and there is no way to withdraw money. Playstation 5 digital turned into a brick
People who back up roms will always have a good place for me
Conversations about game preservation always make me upset, because many people bring up that if Nintendo doesn't wanna provide a legal way to play a game, then you don't have a right to play it. Maybe, but that doesn't mean games should die and be forgotten!
The digital age scares me, and not just in terms of games
Anyone who says that is stupid, if companies do this then they just give people Nother reason to pirate.
The Microsoft is dealing with preservation and gamepass made me buy an Xbox. The day Nintendo made that Mario collection a limited time sale the only legal way of getting them, I gave away my 3ds and started hating Nintendo. They have to do something major to change my mind.
Maybe we can get that uncensored version of the video
we can see that matt is actually really pissed about this
My big thing is GameStop's trade in system. I no longer have some of my favorite games because little kid me traded all of them in for some game I don't even remember.
Now where the uncensored version … for research purposes ?
The real question is what will happen if valve say good buy steam.....
Now I regret buying the 15+ digital games I’ve gotten for my switch
Valve's digital games are... OK. The main place where it falls down is not being able to use multiple games at the same time. Not such a big deal when you're an individual but when you start getting kids at an age where they might want to play some games, well, with a disc you could just let them use the disc while you play a different game.
Family Sharing lets you share the library on multiple accounts, so you can have a single library and play Dragon Age while someone else is playing Skyrim. It even has a feature where in order to play a game the account who doesn't own it has to request to play, so you can stop them from playing any games you feel they shouldn't be playing yet
@@elk3407 Yeah, that also requires that your kids have accounts - which is fine if you have older kids, but not so much for younger ones. Would be easier if you could just play up to 5 games simultaneously. It's also not out of the question to play two games simultaneously, especially if one of them is a more idle game.
It's funny cus in the intro I was like "what could he possibly be saying that was illegal??"
And then when I got the context I was like "ohhhhh"
😂
what about emulators
Everyone can hate on me as much as they want for this, but I believe that collectors ruin every market they touch by artificially raising the prices of things to the extreme just because something is old or rare.
That is what NFT should have been from the start a replacement for DRM and Prof of Purchased / Licences.
Pirating games is always moral
3ds and Wii U shops were shut down today 😭😭😭😭
I miss when gaming was offline. No Console/Game needing to be done before you can play. Seriously it's why I do mostly collect ps3 era and backwards. Just so much easier.
Definately going digital at the start of a games relese is the way to go. Since games obviouly get so many updates and DLC it makes owning the original physical release useless. Then do a complete physical release at the end of a games lifesycle. Like a GOTY or complete edition. To satisfy those who want one for there collection. It's just sad that most PC games these days never get physical releases.
man you and matt always make a lovely video
Honestly, I don't care if they sunset their stores, if I paid for it I'm going to get it, wether that's finding it online or not.
Both. I want physical and digital. I want them to give me the game digitally AS WELL if I bought a physical copy. I have no idea how that isn't a thing???
I am cannot buy the old spider-man games on pc because there is no longer available in steam so because of that i downloading it from torrent sites
I literally trashed all my physical games a few months ago. Went all in digital 10 years ago and haven't had a disc drive since in any of my computers. On PC, Digital games are forever... And Nintendo/Sony games live on as ROMS to play in higher quality on my computer. 🤷♂️
I do wish companies offered digital copies forever instead of needing to pirate them, though. It wouldn't cost up that much more to keep hosting a digital copy of a game that's not too popular to distribute on a single server and make it a Torrent.
“Digital games live on forever”
Until the company that made it goes out of business, or the game store does out of business, or the console gets old and it’s no longer profitable to keep the store open ( which has already happened with multiple game systems), furthermore what you are recommending is piracy, which I don’t mind, however 90% of people don’t want to go through the trouble of setting up an emulator
@Kai H. Also emulating on IOS is a crapshoot, this is only ideal for android users
Steam and GOG. Best way to preserve games. Back up game files with cracks so you can play without reinstalling.
what if companies could sell reproductions of media for items that are no longer sold by the original manufacturers. IE. N64 carts no longer sold by Nintendo? Then anyone else could sell that reproduction.