Digital Only Physical Games - Scott The Woz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- Scott doesn't need 16 more characters in his life.
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Music Used:
"Starlight Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog
"Coursebot" from Super Mario Maker
"Starship Mario 1" from Super Mario Galaxy 2
"Stage Select" from Mega Man 11
"Apple Kid" from EarthBound
"Mount Vesuvius" from DuckTales Remastered
"Rolling Hills A" from Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars
"Mini Mayhem" from Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!
"Downtown (That's Right 1)" from Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (2021)
"Splash Woman" from Mega Man 9
"Flying Battery Zone Act 2" from Sonic Mania
"Switch Scramble Circus" from Super Mario 3D World
"Title Screen" from Mega Man Legacy Collection
"Music Player/Leaderboards" from Mega Man Legacy Collection
"Game Select" from Mega Man Legacy Collection
"Sword Search on Koholint Island" from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019)
"Replay" from ARMS
"Sawmill Thrill (Midway)" from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
"White Land" from F-Zero
"In the Darkness" from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
"Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes - เกม
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Imagine buying a book that’s only the cover pages with an ebook download inside
The Holy Bible in 20 Pages: Contains a printed version of Genesis and a download code for the remaining 72 books!
@@beautychao7 yep.
@@bobafett4265 Can you print ebooks? Asking for a friend.
@@beautychao7 uP
@@ADeeSHUPA What?
If “The Internet and You” can get a physical release anything can
Yeah.
Not yugioh abridged
@@NPC_5120 I wish
True
Didn’t it?
I bought Overwatch for the Switch thinking there’d be a cartridge inside. When I opened it I found a code to put into the eShop, and that was how I discovered digital only physical games. I haven’t bought one since
Here's your mistake, you bought Overwatch
Good that you dont Play on PC mate. Thats a thing for 10 years now that you often just get a code and sometimes a disc with the installer for Steam or something.
Bro, I bought it knowing it was a digital download since the 3 months of switch online was actually added on for free so I did that to save money, but once I had the box, yeah it was still pointless
Imagine buying overwatch on switch bahahaha
You realize that with PC it makes total sense though, right? How are you going to put 100+ GB on a disc?
The Sonic Mania Collector's Edition is still absolutely hilarious to me. I totally understand indie games and other small publishers doing digital releases and later producing full releases. They need the money from the release to fund the release. It's rough out there
Sonic Mania isn't really an Indie game... moreso, an official fan game...
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives which is why the 2nd sentence contrasts with the first point rather than complements it
It does make complete sense for indie games and smaller game companies to do digital and then release physically. Like, with DDLC+, they even had to keep delaying the physical release due to shortages in getting cartridges (I think that’s what it was, at least). It’s harder to get physical copies made, and it’s more expensive, so it makes sense to wait on doing physical releases when resources are scarce.
It also makes some sense for DLC for games that are free-to-play to begin with but are also popular to have digital-only physical releases. Like, it would make no sense to have a physical copy of just the DLC, and it’s kinda odd to have a physical copy of a free-to-play game with specific DLC included, but the game is popular enough that retailers would definitely want to be able to show boxes with “Fortnite” or something printed on them, so _that_ makes sense.
I can also understand cases like that one Smash Bros-like PlayStation game where you do get a physical copy of the game for one system in the box but also digital copies for other systems included as well (and this also applies to Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars in Japan). Like, it’d be kinda weird (and kinda needlessly expensive) to have physical copies of all versions of the game included in the box, but supporting multiple platforms by the same publisher with a single sale also makes sense, so I can get behind that. I actually wish Nintendo had done that a lot more with its Wii U and 3DS library.
What doesn’t make sense is for large publishers and devs like Sega to do a digital-only physical release of a full game, especially one that they know will do well (like Overwatch and Sonic Mania).
Like, sure, Sonic Mania was sold at a low price, and I can see how you might not want to print physical copies of a game you’re only selling for $20 (which is why they _did_ make a full physical copy once they released the paid DLC to bump the price up to $40 and just made the DLC included on the disc or cartridge), so on its own, I can understand Sonic Mania not getting an actual physical release except on a 2-in-1 cartridge with Team Sonic Racing and/or with the DLC included to get Sonic Mania Plus so they could sell physical copies at a middling price ($40) rather than at the budget price ($20) that Sonic Mania on its own was sold at. (Seriously, no AAA publisher/developer (and only a few non-budget devs) is going to be willing to make actual physical copies of a game and sell them at such a low price at launch.) However, with the Sonic Mania Collector’s Edition, that made no sense. Like, you’re including a bunch of stuff with it to justify raising the price well above what most AAA games go for (which is $50 or $60), so the added per-unit cost of printing an actual disc (there wasn’t a Switch at the time at all, nor was there ever a 3DS or Vita release, so no cartridges were needed) wouldn’t significantly reduce profits or require increased prices. And these are going to sell well, anyways. Why _not_ include a physical copy of the game with the Collector’s Edition? Like, that’s what happened with DDLC+, an indie game developed almost entirely by one guy: they included some additional goodies with the game to justify selling the physical copy at a higher price than the digital release.
And Overwatch really doesn’t make sense. Like, it’s a really popular game, it’s a full price game ($60 not counting sales), and it’s by a major company. Maybe the full game wouldn’t fit on a Switch cartridge, but several other Switch games (L.A. Noire, The Bioshock Collection, Spyro: The Reignited Trilogy, etc.) also couldn’t fit on the cartridge, so they just fit what they could on the cartridge and you had to download the rest of the game to the Switch (or Micro SD card) to play. Why couldn’t they do that with Overwatch?
What makes less than zero sense is when a publisher makes a digital-only physical release for a game that they themselves are publishing (especially if they also developed it) on a system that they manufacture (so Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft). Seriously, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars in Europe… What the hell is up with that?
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Putting a cardboard disc in a game box feels like a april fools joke
why in the world does this only have 3 likes?
@@coketictac22 cause people got tired of liking his comment under every single Scott video
That's capcom
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Wasn't that the entire premise of the first Gumball episode? The one with the DVD?
The true analogy: You buy hot dog buns, and they give you a coupon for ubereats or whatever to have buns delivered to your house
A true analogy would be for products you can get either via download or via physical media. So like Blu-ray and CD cases, but instead of a disc a download code.
This video focuses on console games, but PC games have been going this route, albeit in a subtler way. They'll still press a DVD disc and put it in the box, but because DVD-ROM only holds 9GB max, for games bigger than that the disc often just holds a launcher for Steam to enter the game code and download it. But you don't have that visual of opening the box and there's no disc inside.
@@marsilies PC as a market makes sense for it, the whole platform is built on doing stuff efficiently, while console has a lot more sentimental value to it.
@@daniellaniganohara2456 Also Steam has (and other platforms have) - up until now - proven to be a very reliable service provider. And you don't have hard generation cuts like you used to have on consoles. While in the moment Valve seemed incredibly pushy regarding Steam (back then with the release of HL2) they have earned the trust of the gamers now. So it's not only the sentimental value but also the kind of trust that someone will still be able to redownload and play a game in a few years down the line.
@@marsilies I mean to be fair, PC is an entirely different can of worms. Most obviously, almost all laptops and desktops alike from the past five years have removed BR/DVD/CD players from their computers. Sure you could buy an adapter but nobody wants to do that if they don't have to. Secondly, pirating PC games from a disc is super easy (barely an inconvenience) by just ripping the disc to an ISO and "mounting" it to fool the game into thinking it's running on a real disc drive without having the game inserted. The way consoles prevent this is by using specialized discs and/or software most usually by a special partition, information burned to the edges of the physical disc to verify or ways to checksum on the console. (Though it would be cool if some company made a sort of USB to PC Cartridge so that games on PC and possibly mobile too could have a sort of physical release for the fun of it. Then maybe have some contracts with the bigger gaming companies to build it into their computers. Would be very epic.)
Tl;dr computers are just past discs as a standard medium, and to prevent people from pirating a disc is practically impossible.
Consoles are a wet-dream for planned obsolescence, making you pay to entirely replace hardware every four years and multiply that with games that have exclusivity deals or first-party developed, not to mention pretty much every console now forces you to pay for a separate internet service too.
I remember seeing Fortnite at Walmart and just thought to myself; “Wh-why do you exist?”
Quick reminder that trees died for this shit,
Join the hivemind, amirite?
Haha...fortnite bad... minecraft good, stfp nobody cares, let people enjoy what they want to enjoy
@@jayjoy your missing the point
@@jayjoy When did I say that I hate Fortnite? I never said that.
I said “Why do you exist” because it’s kind of a waste of money when you can just go download for free on your Switch.
Seeing 7 year olds in the switch area of GameStop getting the actual cartridge gives me a sliver of hope for the next generation
seeing teenagers starting to get into vinyl, CDs, or even cassettes is always a relief too. makes me feel like physical media isn't *entirely* gone
At least they aren't playing fortnite.
I mean it's not like their parents can trust them with their credit cards by buying things online.
@@TheLarryburns84Yeah, I am a teenager, I like collecting old games. *looks at the decent library* oh hey a snes cartridge
Oh I'm only in my junior year of high school and I LOVE game collecting!
I'm working on a Nintendo DS collection right now since they're sold oddly cheap for such an arcaic device
Imagine being in a GameStop and seeing a dude with a camera fast walking towards you
“How much for all these download code cards without the codes themselves”
Gonna get a lot of use out of that footage.
I’d freeze LOL
Its only gets worse if its chris chan holding it and mace
@@kz-be3ri or it gets better
"It's become uncool to hold things"
- Microsoft when making the Kinect
@@brianmercerjr2282 awesome reply 👌🏻
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And nintendo, and sony.
@@domeen0gt895 basically every gaming company in the 2005
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When you don't have access to the internet, physical copies are your go to... companies should never stop producing them so they can keep their whole fan base
I feel bad for people without internet access, especially if it's because of where they live. Way too many things require internet nowadays.
Internet is a human right but like a lot of other rights a lot of people can’t access them
@@jmurray1110there our no human rights
@@chaosenforcerdhm969 humans rights as defined under international law by the UN
@@jmurray1110 I don’t care what the UN says human rights are not a thing because why are we entitled to freedom but other animals are not?
One of the real issues that I think were going to run into with Switch in 8-10yrs is once the servers are no longer supported/maintained any game that requires anything more than a patch simply won’t function… sort of defeats the purpose of buying physical when you only have 75% of the game on the card…
Look into emulation man :)
@@andresmolina4879 Yeah, Nintendo loves it when you emulate their shit.
@@XXXXX8 they can sit go on a cactus with wasabi.
This is part of why modders exist to let you play "backups"...
The thing is is that the switch has a feature similar to download play on the ds and 3ds where you can update your games by downloading the patch off of another switch that’s right next to yours even without internet
"They're the cutest possible way to kill a seal"
- Scott Wozniak (2021)
@@OrangeYTT ok
@@OrangeYTT ok
scott is right.
That could be used in court
@Joseph Szakas (working title)
You know shit's serious when Scott pulls out the 30th anniversary edition of an rpg
But he's not an RPG guy
@@alexsilva28 hes more of an “I don’t want to be known as the guy that owns Sonic Jam” kind of guy
I find it funny how he has that anniversary edition then compolains about their not being a cartridge when it is litterally an nes game. the download size can't be more than 50 megabytes
@@QFrog I own that collector's edition and the game legit took like 5 seconds to download
@@QFrog I looked this up once and it was like 100MB? Which is enormous for a NES game, but when you add the emulator on top of it, and probably the English patch they're applying on the fly, 100MB is great, but not really worthy of being on a 1GB Switch cart, you know?
I have one problem with Doom 2016 on Switch's download strategy: the 8GB patch that contains the multiplayer also contains patches for the singleplayer. And as someone who played Doom 2016 on Switch before a few of those patches came out: that is a problem. Not only is the game much buggier, with a particularly bad audio glitch that happened frequently, one of those patches also added gyro controls. So basically, even if you own Doom 2016 on Switch physically, that 8GB download is pretty much mandatory, even if you don't care about the multiplayer. They really should've listed the multiplayer content as free DLC so that it could be downloaded and deleted separate from the single player patches.
@Standard User Name Eh you can already buy 1tb micro sd cards for some time now ;)
@Standard User Name Just buy one from a known brand in a known store or shop and you wont have problems.
@Standard User Name When you buy from a known store in town or online (not amazon) its no problem at all. I have a few friends who got fake usb drives from only amazon.
@Standard User Name There is always a chance they have fakes. Still happening to this day with smaller MicroSD Cards or USB Drives.
@Standard User Name But when Nintendo shuts down the updates server, you're stuck with the base buggy game.
Really glad that there's still some big TH-camrs out there keeping the physical media going and making videos about the benefits. And all digital game future is inevitable but that doesn't mean it's not a crappy future too
I feel like it's only console gamers who love physical media nowadays.
It's like staying on cd instead of streaming music.
And it's not like you can't buy physical goods to support whatever developer you want.
@@thetechrealist I’d say it’s vastly different than music CD’s or even movies. PC gamers have essentially had the option of physical games and therefore the positives that come with them taken away. And of the few PC games that have a physical release nowadays, a lot of them pull tricks and don’t put the game on the disc. That’s why it’s only console gamers because they’re literally the only ones who still have it as an option for majority of the library. And also as Scott stated if you have slow/unreliable internet or don’t have internet at all, just wanna save space on your console, quicker download times, discounted games, etc. then physical media is a must. Those positives don’t really exist with music and movies as they’re much smaller in size than games and their corresponding devices no longer even accept physical media. It’s kind of like how Apple takes away the headphone jack then magically release AirPods the next day. Is it more convenient? Yes, but they don’t give you another option. Plus music and sometimes movies are often used on the go, where as console gaming never is, so a physical library of games if the positives are important enough for you is well worth the space and inconvenience. Now for the vast majority of people, digital is of course the best option but it’s not as obviously better and straightforward as it is with music and movies. Really never understood this comparison.
It literally doesn't matter you're just gross and weird.
“Oh, yeah, we got tons of games; Resident evil revelations, resident evil revelations 2. *ad break*”
That sentence was finished long ago.
Hellman’s Mayonnaise is my favorite Resident Evil title.
@@E3kHatena Lmfaoo
Imagine not blocking ads.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v I personally turn adblock off for certain channels, gotta support them somehow
“Why does something like THIS warrant a disc” *shows Balan Wonderworld*
I love it when Scott throws shade at certain games
Yikes...
*Proceeds to throw Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash into toilet*
@@Delta21OnYT "This game blows!"
He does it so nonchalantly too
@@Delta21OnYT Be prepared for a sludge monster to appear at your doorstep
We need more games to come with posters inside, for me that's one of the best things ever.
Fun fact, on modern consoles if you have a physical disc they usually force you to install it all to the hard drive anyway. The disc just becomes a more convoluted liscence check.
You don't need internet which is great for me because I have a really bad connection
My thing with physical discs is that now are like a backup in case of....you known...something happen to the console
@@Patodeagua213 same here
@@Patodeagua213 though when the activation servers for the PS4 get shut down, you're basically screwed if the game needed a day one patch or some activation with the disc
@@aprofondir yeah, thats sad :(
At least in the case of "release digital first, then physical comes out later" it's often indie games that didn't think they'd get popular enough to warrant a physical release
And often have DLC/updates built in, like Darkest Dungeon for instance
I was going to say pretty much this. It's a lot more forgivable for entry-ish indie titles where it's simply not economical at all to do physical releases before you've managed to make a good chunk of sales from the main digital release method.
@@Lojemiru I feel like this would then make him warrant a video about limited run games doing just that
yeah.
True. I don't think the developers of Untitled Goose Game looked at their 45 minute long game and thought "This will fly off the shelves!"
Digital-only gamers: "I'd like to conserve space by not buying physical games."
Industry responds with: "Absolutely! How does a case containing a download code sound?"
Brings back "Minecraft Story Mode" flashbacks.
One part of me loves having something physical to put on display but still have the convenience of digital.
But you also can't resell it and it generates a lot of waste because people usually keep their cases with their discs but for these they'd throw it out.
Digital only gamers just don’t wanna risk the disc breaking (my PS4 just murders discs) or losing the cartridge/disc/whatever
insert dial up internet sound
Digital Gamers: “No you don’t get it we want to save space”
Industry: “Oh I got you, what about a giant box with nothing you’ll ever use, is that good enough for you”
My favorite part about the Sonic Mania Collector's Edition was I got it at a midnight release.
But I couldn't download it until the store updated the next day to allow me to download the game.
Oof.
I think this happens much more often on the Switch because publishers don't want to pay to produce relatively expensive game carts. It was a concern raised when the Switch was announced and apparently that fear was well founded.
Online games are easier to DRM, also publishers hate second hand gaming... That's about it. It doesn't cost that much money to publish these games.
I believe theres also a weird licensing thing where they have to pay more to nintendo for a cartridge than just a code
How did you make a 20 minute video on empty boxes
He made a movie about a blue border. Nothing is surprising anymore.
Ooooh that one animator who’s into tøp is also into Scott, nice!
he once made one about how the boxes look too
It's scott, he'll make a 25 minute video on the L button if he wants to.
@@dairhat dammit that's what I was about to say, good reference
I once bought my friend a game code at target for his birthday only to find out that the receipt was very poorly printed and after trying for 20 minutes to decipher what the code was we went through a 30 minute call with target trying to get them to give us a new code. Thankfully we succeeded but dang that made me hate this category of games.
Printing codes on a receipt are a new tier of sin
@@autismandgaming4532 fr, just give us the code on a piece of paper
@@badger4512 then what's the receipt for😂
@@BLUEBEATLE001 wdym? They have to give us a receipt, but like dont put the code on the receipt its so hard to read that
@@badger4512 the receipt is the paper bruh
I’ll admit having a digital library is far more convenient than owning physical due to there being no need to change discs or cartridges. However. I will only buy physical because you can display your favorite, share, resell, buy used. I still have all my original Pokémon and seeing how the market is, they’re all worth more than what I bought them for.
Yes, but it's way more convenient to buy digital online, or a cheap code from avito resellers, than a full price code in a retail store
Btw all my physical disks are used, don't have a single new one
When my exams are over, gotta buy Sonic Frontiers if it will be still in retail stores
And this time it will be a true store like mvideo, eldorado, dns or citilink
3:41 Scott kinda snapped
In fact, he took a break for an hour because he was losing it entirely.
This is the most I've ever heard Scott say "bitch". Good to see him taking his own advice about swearing.
He still won't say f**k uncensored though.
Bitch is a female dog, maybe that's why he doesn't censor it.
Edit: Oh, I'm not english so not everything is obvious to me. 😁
@@DaSheepKiller Technically we have heard him say it when he forgot to censor it in the Sonic 2 video.
When Scott said “dumb bitch” it kinda scared me for some reason
I was startled too. I didn't thinkhe would speak that kind of vocabulary on his main channel.
Why? Aren't we all kind of a "dumb bitch" at the end of the day? Myself very much included.
It wasn’t censored for some reason.
@@wondrousparrot2815 One thing I've noticed is that he actually only censors certain words. F*ck is one, and I think he does sh*t? But bitch has never been censored
The Guilt and Shame are deep seated...
The worst is when only some of the games are physical. The Sly Cooper collection for the Vita has a download code for the 3rd game.
“For those of you with a soul, physical media is still out there” I feel so validated
Telltale games being in this video is probably the most exposure they’ve gotten in a while
oof
“I’m half pissed” that’s me all day, Scott.
Now that is relatable
I’m not mad I’m just half pissed
3rd
Two moods: Totally pissed and half pissed
I'm half pissed because when he put out that fake download code for half an hour I entered every single combination it didn't work
13:37 Crapcom also was guilty of the Devil May Cry HD Collection on the Switch. They decided to waste the cartridge in DMC1, the smallest one, when clearly it has enough space for the other two games as well. Still pissed about it.
I think that the freak out at 3:39 is some of scott's finest acting; no, showmanship. He truly believes that, and channels it into a serious riposte to the practice of digital only game boxes. I love your channel, dude, keep it up. :)
I love the way Scott complains about all these physical digital games yet he owns all of them! Never change Scott!
this is the guy who bought all of Walgreens chips ahoy packs for a 2 second gag. But yes never change scott
@@jackk.33 some say he bought a factory just to make that gag
@@ohmygahdbilly I would not be surprised if that was true
Ask him about the disc less Ps5 and series S
@@arslanmalik151 Hissss
I really hope physical discs and cartridges never go extinct, having a physical collection is leagues more fun
Part of the reason I love companies like Limited Run Games
I hated how they stopped making game booklets to go with the games..
They won't. People will always want things. Not having things is not nearly as good as having things.
@@nightshroud9671 True, although that's been out of fashion for nearly a decade now. I still remember the biggest shock I ever got recently was buying a physical copy of Evolve and finding not only a proper instruction manual the size of early PS2 game manuals, but it was also in FULL COLOUR. It could very well be the only eight-gen game to ever feature such a thing excluding collectors editions of other games.
Plus you can save money by reselling and buying old games. And yeah, a collection is just far more fun.
I won’t switch to digital until it’s significantly cheaper. At the price it is, it make sense to me to just buy the physical version of it. Got tons of digital games, but all for the low low
As you buy your "physical" game that's gb size makes it impossible to put on any disc so you're literally buying a cd key on a disc that allows you to digitally download the game.
@@super8bitvideos I have other gaming consoles so that doesn't matter to me.
@@super8bitvideos sorry could you elaborate on your comment, because if I'm not wrong the physical media has the entire game files on the disc and the only thing you download and it is optional, are the updates and dlc.
@@super8bitvideos i don’t understand what that means
but anyways physical is better because tangible object make me feel good
@@checob224 The disc doesn't have anything on it and is basically a shorter way of entering in the digital key and is basically a key you use to install it and use to continue unlocking it
"26 f***ing gigabytes!"
Me with the collection: "yes."
I like how Scott continued the joke with the Therapist from the Chibi-Robo Zip Lash video calling the cartridge a cheez-it at 0:27
Good To Know I’m Not The Only One Who Saw That
AHHH!!!!
AHHH!!!!!
IT’S A F*CKIN CHEEZ-IT!!!!!!!!
Also from the DS video, when they stuffed SM64DS into the cheez it
Cheez-it is fire
Could you imagine buying a “physical” copy and the receipt printer was low on ink?
That’s a one sentence horror story
receipts are thermal paper
receipts don't use ink, they print by burning specific parts of the paper so that they appear black. It's not possible for them to run out.
“Oh, sweet! PRINTER INK!”
@@CowboyJoseph64 Huh, that's neat, I had no idea. I guess that explains why liquids and condensation from groceries don't cause ink on your receipts to run.
Man, seeing Scott defend Fire Emblem is wild...
Scott holding Doug Bowser at gunpoint:
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?! WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!
The Telltale season pass discs are even more painful considering how Telltale went bankrupt and delisted most of their games, rendering the downloads impossible and the discs drink coasters.
*PLASTIC POLLUTING THE OCEANS: A Telltale Games Series*
Impossible how? I mean I have the wolf among us, the walking dead, and Minecraft story mode downloaded and had no problems playing them.
@@AZIONG651 yes, but if you bought those games today rather than whenever you bought them then you would only ever have access to the first episode
Didn't Tales From the Borderlands avoid that fate?
@@danc893 Well that's the thing, I bought all those games I mentioned like a few weeks ago, downloaded Wolf Among Us and Walking Dead and got a physical copy of Minecraft:Story Mode, and they had more than just the first episodes. Or am I missing the point entirely?
Physical releases of digital games is basically like “I bought this game just to own an empty box of plastic? It’s both redundant *and* bad for the environment!”
All physical releases are digital. Its just a CD or cartridge or whatever else with digital data on it.
@@Tadfafty Well no shit sherlock, but all of us know what they refer to in the comment
Just like a NFT
@@Tadfafty That is technically true if you wanna go into semantics, but I’d still much rather own a box with physical media inside of it instead of just…y’know, a box.
Wait how is keeping a plastic box at my home bad for the environment ?🤣
I honestly got kind of a nostalgia for physical games. Having all those cool cases on your shelf looks nice, especially if the case looks great.
13:55 moments like these are why I love you Scott
I remember getting a “Digital Only Physical Game” once. The cashier looked at me and had the most disappointed look on his face.
To be fair, that's most cashiers.
what game was it exactly? Now I'm curious
@@vechirni_anbernic it was a Fortnite skin thing it was for my cousin.
I feel for that cashier...
Scott is not just trending in gaming, he's trending on TH-cam in general.
Not only that he’s top fifteen WOO
Finally, some good fucking food
Good content is good content
That's just _your_ TH-cam.
@@medotaku9360 do u have stupid that was 4 weeks ago
Scott: "This game is good enough to get a box, but not a disc."
Me: (Patiently awaits the game that is good enough to get a disc but not a box.)
Wii Sports, initially.
links cross bow training
I love the picture that flashes by of Scott staring in discontent at Rock n' Roll Adventures on the Wii
I remember being on Twitter and seeing an angry mom complain because she didn’t get the fortnite disc with the skin pack
Fortnite physical releases pretty much exist to either deceive or piss off parents/grandparents
Early releases of the game back in 2017~2018 did actually contain a disc, but they were still pretty useless since the game was still in early access, meaning that the game needed to be downloaded. Weirder still, early copies had some benefit since they also granted founder's access to the PvE mode along with unique heroes, but later Fortnite discs only contained BR and only came bundled with consoles, which begs the question of "why?" Why not just have the game pre-downloaded on the console?
@ColaKing84 such acute angle
@ColaKing84 what degree is this angle?
@ColaKing84 lol
I'll tell you what's even worse: Collector's editions that DON'T EVEN INCLUDE THE GAME.
Yeah, like Red Dead 2 or Animal Crossing New Horizons
@@KOROEGG Or Resident Evil 7 and State of Decay 2
Yeah like *collector's edition of what bruh*
@Snoozy Akuji No he didn't
@@gododoof he talked about it at 9:28 . Although, I heard the Mass Effect legendary collectors edition didn’t come with a game at all.
mario kart live actually pissed me off because it makes it hard to preserve the game
Hey Scott, thanks for the free code of DuckTales at 4:34 !
It actually worked for you!?
@@rubiks_20 YEP!
Madlad.
Instead of Angry Videogane Nerd, Scott is the Mildly Depressed Videogame Nerd
The Mildy Depressed Virgin Gamer*
The mildly depressed stupid Nintendo game discusser
He’s not angry; he’s just disappointed.
and he's not a virgi.....
Oopsie my bad teehee
James Rolfe Jr.
When you mentioned the fact that these download codes expire in nearly a 1000 years that made me wonder if there is someone out there that plans to pass a download code down through the generations until one day they have an expired download code...
Maybe I should do that
The online stores for the consoles the code is valid on will shut down way before that.
@@jarmakey1 Tell your descendants to make sure at least one server is still active
EDIT: IM DUMB
@@pablopereyra7126 it's a little tough to tell your ancestors things about stuff you intend to pass down, your descendants on the other hand will be eager to know what they're getting into
@@digitalunity I fucked up bad I dissapointed all my descendants. WAIT NO THATS WRONG TOOOO AHHHHHHHHH
@@pablopereyra7126 lol you're good
Edit: your sim is too hungry to comment on the internet...
1:51 it looks like he was foreshadowing him reviewing 3D classics! Neat!
The fact he got 3 copies of Ducktales Remastered just got this video is highly respectable
The most logical reason I can think of for why companies do this is little more than them going "We don't want you to sell used copies of this"
Then just do a digital only release?
@@klazrickryku8966 "we don't want you to resell this but we do think having a physical box will lead to more sales"
@@Croove55 Yeah, and honestly as much as I like games, that's the reason why people should not care for those companies and their games, they treat the games as disposable things, so should you. Perhaps don't even buy them to begin with.
@@Croove55
“We don’t want you to sell this and we also think you’re dumb enough to buy it.”
I'm probably most annoyed with the Spyro trilogy on Switch. Despite only the first game being on the cartridge, you still have to insert the cartridge to play the second and third games that you have to download. That is madness in a box.
Comes with a code for the other two games i guess ? When yes its there that you dont sell the code.
Was this eventually? 'Cause we got it the day it released, and it had all 3 games on the cart...
"I bought a physical game, HOW DARE I HAVE TO INSERT THE PHYSICAL GAME TO PLAY!" -Kariwest49 aka whiny baby
@@chrisking686 the point I'm trying to get across here is that it should be one or the other. If I get a physical game with multiple titles, I like having all those titles on the cartridge (like the Megaman Zero collection). If they can't/don't fit them on the cartridge, they can at least let you play the games that are not on the cartridge digitally, since that's what they've given you (Megaman X collection 1 physically & 2 digitally). The third option is to do what they did with Spyro where the first game is physical and the next two are digital, but to play those digital games they make you put in the cartridge (which only has the first game on it) to access the other two games. While this technically works, I much prefer the other two options over this.
@@chrisking686 My guy 2 of the 3 games literally aren't on the cartridge
Digital Only Physical Games is like buying a theater ticket and its just a one time code for a stream on your PC that you can only watch at a certain time
You wanna know the funny thing?
It's very much possible to fit large-scale games on a Switch cartridge without having to sacrifice much storage space.
Super Mario Odyssey is 5.7 GB, Breath of the Wild is 13.4 GB, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is 3.2 GB, and Pokémon Sword and Shield are 10.3 GB each.
Either Nintendo secretly has some really handy compression methods, or third-party devs just aren't making use of them for whatever reason.
Also the witcher 3 on switch
Scott acknowledged terrarias existence. That’s a win
a big win
And the existence of Minecraft story mode
undertale's turn
its terraria
@@cristianarreola8582 a big win
I had no idea these things existed
Lucky you they’re everywhere at the stores where I live and I hate it
Me neither until we bought one in at work and were all stressed as hell in case the code was dodgy lol
I didn’t know these really existed until I saw some videos about the whole Fallout 76 shitshow which happened to be one of these things.
Same
same
2:40 heeeyyyy it's my favourite GTA alternative that I just played before I started watching this video.
Physical and digital both take up disk space on consoles.
The Playstation 4 doesn't even read the discs while playing. The disc installs the game on the hard drive and only serves as an anti-piracy lock after that.
I'm pretty sure the PS5 and the Xbox line of consoles does the same thing.
Physical might as well be digital. You will sit there for hours waiting to play the game.
And if you have too many games, you gotta uninstall some to play others.
I think that’s partly due to the fact that disks even Blu-rays are slow to be read so they are installed onto the system to improve things like loading times. This is even more important on the PS5 and Xbox X|S as those consoles have SSDs not HDDs. SSDs are VERY fast at reading data compared to HDDs. Also on the 9th gen consoles it’s not just about faster loading times it can also let the game just simply function. According to Sony HDDs were the main thing that held the 8th gen consoles back as games had to be designed around slow read speeds this wasn’t a problem with the 7th gen due to the lesser power of the 360 and ps3 in fact the 360 even used dvds and not Blu-rays which not only have less storage space but are read slower and you need to position the data correctly to have it be read faster. The main thing about the 9th gen isn’t graphics it’s speed however there aren’t many games that take advantage of the SSDs. Not just because some people could be storing them on and external HDD or SD card but also because not every PC has an SSD. I just hope that as the 9th gen goes on games will actually start to take advantage of the SSD so that games downloading of disks is warranted. I also hope that when SSDs get cheaper to buy and produce we could have SSD cartridges. Unfortunately that might take awhile if the prices of the Xbox memory cards are to go by.
As someone with poor internet, I appreciate that I can go to the store, buy a game, and be back home in the time it would take to download 2% of the digital version. That is until I pop the game in and there is a gigantic day one patch.
people with shitty internet be forgotten in this whole mess stg
It's like that on ps4 too. I played my copy of nier automata after moving house. I had to put it on hold until the internet got hooked up cause I encountered an annoying bug, but I was surprised how far I was able to get into the game without the patch. It's rare for games to ship finished nowadays.
thankfully my days of bad internet are long gone. it's way faster to download a game than going to a store to buy it. i think. i have 300mbps internet, it's fast enough either way.
@@GraveUypo what the fuck mine is 6mbps
...and when the downloading servers go offline, the only way to play would be, a disc...
and if you don't have the version that the developers left off? I hate the gaming industry in this regard.
Its official, Scott has miitopia. The possibility of a miitopia episode strengthens.
He probably will cover it in "Nintendo Switch, five years on"
So what? March 2022 for Nintendo Switch: 5 Years In? I mean keep wishing if it gets a standalone.
I mean, he's not an RPG guy...
@@inminded5552 He still played Persona 5 and liked it. Besides, Miitopia has a lot of charm to it so I think he'll get at least SOME fun out of it
Yet he has the Fire Emblem SDatBoL collectors edition.
It makes perfect sense for a physical edition to come out a while after the digital version, so you can have it be the version where a bunch of updates have been done and the worst bugs have been ironed out. Otherwise you end up with a physical release which then needs online updates.
It would be nice if developers actually bothered finishing and testing the games before they released them though; then such a wait period wouldn't be needed.
@@todesziege imagine developing a game as a solo dev and consumers expect you ro have the time and money to iron out all the problems while releasing the game in a timely fashion
@@willia_music There's a significant difference between some bugs slipping through, and basically releasing software unfinished--as is increasingly often the case today.
Solo dev operations have been around for ages, yet it wasn't the norm to release a commercail work in such an incomplete state until more recently.
Holy crap i had no idea switch cards with multiple games could show up as two separate apps when you put them in the system. That's really cool
Digital Only games with Physical Boxes have to be the absolute peak of STUPID THINGS THAT EXIST.
Seeing Fortnite and Apex Legends get a physical release killed me
@@zangoon4546 yeah, it makes no sense for a constantly updated service game that won’t work without the internet.
It's for grandparents who buy their grandkids video games from big box stores. Still stupid, though
@@jimmyt7233 lol it’s the QVC of video games…
As I said a lil bit ago, they put the "own" in downloadable. ...That's abt it.
Scott: "physical games are better so you don't have to wait for download"
Physical Games: "Oh you have to download us now too"
@@krackers5061 ...Did you watch the video? Switch games are most definitely guilty of this too.
@@krackers5061 Don't they usually take less than a minute?
@@krackers5061 Oh, damn. Didn't know that.
@@a.s.g8334 Damn how fast are your consoles? Games regularly take me 30+ minutes to download on those PS consoles.
FF7R Intergrade: you have to download part of my disc, then insert the other disc and continue downloading, and THEN download the DLC!
i think that’s why Limited Run is so cool. they don’t have to worry about printing too many copies and fans get physical releases. win-win.
There's something about watching Scott's videos I just love it
Capcom: "F*ck ethics!"
Collector's Editions: "F*ck ethics and your wallet!"
Nintendo: "F*ck ethics, your wallet and Europe!"
@Fakename ^
@Fakename Brazil likes to pretend other countries don't exist. Otherwise, Brazil wouldn't have prohibitive import tariffs in the name of "import substitution industrialization."
Sakurai in the Byleth Presentation: F*ck you, you're getting a lecture on Fire Emblem, even though you should know what that is already!
@Fakename Nintendo: Announces they'll start manufacturing Switches in Brazil.
Also Nintendo in the rest of Latin America: Leave it all to LATAMEL...
Worst idea ever.
@@thomario8638 Perhaps Tectoy has an exclusivity deal with Sega?
I actually like the huge DIGITAL ONLY signs on the switch boxes because they act as a caution sign to all customers
A massive *DO NOT BUY* sign
The newest call of duty came with a blank disk. Completely blank and you had to download the entire game
Now we're gonna wait for Physical Only Digital Games.
That's just multiplayer only games
@@zachattack1279 Damn it. Thought we had at least a year or two for them to find it out.
The funniest part of this video to me is that when he talked about Fortnite, it was the same clip from his viral games video. This implies he couldn’t bring himself to play Fortnite again to get a 3 second clip
Would YOU be willing to play Fortnite for a 3 second clip? I sure wouldn't.
Especially because he often does a lot of work for 3 second clips like that time when he played a game boy in a shower or something
@@mikmoomamimocki That shower clip did serve the purpose of getting him wet for the next shot tho. Not trying to discredit your comment, just thought that that was an interesting occurrence.
Some retro gamers must've felt betrayed when that "copy of Pokémon Red" at GameStop was just a code lol.
What?
@@MatanVil on the 3ds VC, I think
@@MatanVil Gamestop sometimes has copies of the Game Boy Pokémon games on the 3DS section but they're actually codes for the Virtual Console versions, not the original Game Boy ones. I don't know anyone who would think those are the originals, but they must've felt pretty sad when all they got was a paper with a bunch of numbers and letters.
@@randomgecko4637 meh all the same for me as long as I play the game
@@dream6562 It feels different if u paying for it
The equivalent of going to Barnes and Noble, seeing a book with a nicely designed cover and binding, and what's written in it is step by step instructions on how to download the book for Kindle.
Physical media must be protected.
Thank you. This needed to be said.
“Here’s a code in a box.”
“Thanks! I hate it!”
I prefer physical games, so screw this concept.
I mean if the game won't be getting a physical release ... Then I guess its a good way to add a game to a physical collection
That being said, limited run games usually does a run of every popular digital game so its still pointless
It’s official Scott owns Minecraft story mode
For The Wii U...
He Loves The Console
Doesn’t like minecraft
Buys a minecraft spinoff
Logic
@@Budderman18 didnt he make lowes
@@geraldnt No he made Lowe’s not Lowes
@@Househoppper oh yeah, sorry for my misunderstanding
my reason for buying physical: bought sekrio at a local store. When i got home and opend it, it had 2 codes in it. felt real good
5:05 me when I see a new GTA 8 for ps2
Cost cutters Little Caesars Red car
The true agony of gaming... is buying a game that has no physical copy but later physical release was announced.
PHYSICAL MEDIA FOR LIFE!!!!
that was me with stardew valley i bought i bout 2 years before it got a physical switch release and whenever i see it in the store i get so mad at myself for not waiting as i can't afford to get multiple copies of the same game
Scott: This shouldn’t exist!
Scott: Buys this.
He does it so we don't have to. He's a hero!
One of the games I got was the special edition of "big bash boom", a game based on the big bash cricket league in Australia. Not only is it a digital only physical release, it came with a steel book. With no card slot. Need I explain?
THANK YOU Scott for saying what all of us people with a soul are thinking.
We're gonna get to a point where we go to a GameStop, hand the clerk $60, they'll tell us "Mario saves Peach."
Then we turn and leave.
Then i turn around, go back inside and hand them another 60$ for the "luigi saves peach" DLC
The next guy hands them 60$ and gets a kick in the nuts
Okay but imagine "you punch stuff and kill a dragon"
Isn't that kinda similar to how in some games, an NPC offers you a hint on how to further progress into a story by paying them a specific sum of currency to them in return?
Get a download code to a website telling you to go back to the store where the cashier then tells you
Man, I got the Hot Dog Buns: Special Edition Deluxe. It came with 8 hot dogs, a bottle of ketchup, a bottle of mustard, a bottle of relish, and a download code for 10 hot dog buns.
Same, I regret nothing
Could they have at least bothered with giving me 10 hot dogs to use with my 10 hot dog buns? Where the heck am I gonna find a 2 pack of hot dogs?!
If they're going to do a box like this (for Switch at least), they might as well make the case so it doubles as a multiple cartridge holder.
Scott: **shows disc copy of Rocket League**
Rocket League: hold my boost pad, imma go free.
"This doesn't work for other mediums"
Except that I've seen stores selling cards with download codes for music and movies. I once bought a download card from a dollar store, it gave me access to an archive of over 500 MB of Christmas music, in 6 different folders (one was all instrumental, one was mostly for kids, one was pop, one was choral, etc). Also sometimes when you buy a vinyl record it comes with a code for a digital download so you don't need to buy special equipment to listen to the record in your phone. Oh, also I've seen book stores have cards at the counter with codes to download e-books.
Like, it might not be terribly commonplace in other mediums, but it's definitely something they try now and then.
I remember Disney used to do this thing called "Movies, Magic and More" where you could both own a physical disc of a movie, and also have a download code for watching the movie on your computer without the disc being necessary. I never used it, because I just didn't really understand how it worked back then and didn't feel much need for it. It was useful for if your DVD got lost, I guess.
Though I will say that in that particular practice, Disney was morally higher than Nintendo. What a shock.
@@Chad_Eldridge This is actually still a thing with most physical releases of movies, and not just Disney movies. Combos are usually a mix between 4K, Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital copies, just go through the movie section at a Target or Best Buy and you’ll see. It might seem redundant but I honestly like it, there is literally no downside and you just have another option for how you want to view the film, and have multiple copies making it easier to share. It also reminds me of how back in the day you could pop a music cd into your computer and add all of the songs to your iTunes library and transfer it to your iPod or iPhone, it was such a great feature! Maybe it still exists but I haven’t been able to try it since I haven’t owned a computer with a disc drive in years, but I loved it since you could take what you already owned physically and still have the digital convenience. But as the original comment said, some physical copies of music come with a download code as well which is awesome.
It could be a cool thing for video games, the only time I’ve had this is when I ordered the physical copy of the game Carrion for Switch on Limited Run Games, but they sent out a digital code for no extra cost right after the order, so I got to play it right away instead of having to wait months for the physical to arrive. It was neat and I really appreciated it, because I got the convenience of the digital and could play right away, but later on I also have the novelty of a physical one that I can share with a friend and it has a cool manual in the box. It cost more than just buying the digital version but that’s par for the course with limited edition physical games; overall it felt like a really forward-thinking and consumer-friendly thing to me, which is probably why it won’t catch on lol. But at least movies and (sometimes) music get the physical+digital treatment!
You have this a lot on bandcamp, where you can choose to order digital download only, or various physical releases, ranging from CD over LP to casette in some cases. Every physical release will always include the digital one as well, which is super cool. You can listen to the album and get excited when your physical copy arrives.
Oh and I know that pokemon cards will have codes that let's you unlock boosters or decks in the online TCG, which is neat. I would never buy an empty jewel case though and neither an ebook code but that is just my preference.
None of those are selling you an empty box, that resembles the full box!
@@807D14M0ND5 the video was *partially* about empty boxes, but that "doesn't translate" comment - and the video more broadly - was about selling a download code in a retail setting where you're used to buying physical media.
Man, this video's so good that I hope he covers Physical Only Digital Games next time!
It’s the Professor oak challenge man
Man I didn’t know you watched Scott the Woz
There’s no way you finished watching this 18.5 minute video when the video was uploaded 4 minutes ago but aight.
@@zojirushi1 most people comment stuff like that in hopes of easy like
I've wanted this for so long
A common reason why I buy digital is for the long run- disc trays can fail and are pretty pricey to fix in most cases. Some games just don't have a lot of physical copies made, or were incredibly popular among the user base, so it's hard to find once they're out (looking at you, Thousand-Year Door). The main reason though, is forced installation on X1 and PS4. So even though I took the time to go to the store, paid for the disc and made it all the way home, I still have to wait for installs. At that point I'd rather just cut out the store trip and spend overall less time waiting for the game to finish installing. Sure there's always that chance that all of a sudden that my games won't work digitally anymore. But that's worst-case scenario by far. All of the current console manufacturers are far from bankruptcy, and all have made quite a lot of money from digital store sales. I think even now I can go buy a 360, log into my Live account and play NCAA Football 14 (for non-football fans, access to this game is pretty sought-after due to licensing falling through) or even launch Arcade titles which are close to 20 years old now. I still understand the novelty and even accessibility of physical releases, but the way consoles handle data now make it hard to justify extra time being spent on waiting for the game to install to play the full experience. Just my opinion