Well gaming has come a long way, from game systems with one game built into it, to cartridge based systems, to bigger carts, and then larger carts, then CDs with memory cards/internal memory, then DVDs with memorycards and harddrives. Now we're in an age with mixed media of bluray,dvd,hard drives, flash memory and digital download, but yet something's becoming more and more common.
As I sit here with my TV chiming a little chocobo tune from Final Fantasy Dissidia while it installs onto my PSP, I'm wondering disc based media is a great storage media that's cheaper than carts, but has a bit of a load time and no means of game save on it, but installing games seems to becoming more and more the norm. PS3 was the first console to install games (on a mainstream sort of way) to reduce load times then the 360 gave in and now I guess the PSP is next letting you install games (Dissidia.
How do you feel about this? Do you think they're trying to phase out optical media for digital media? What's your opinion on digital media and do you still prefer a physical copy even if it just sits on your shelf awaiting reinstall? Heck, do you even use the option when given?
As I sit here with my TV chiming a little chocobo tune from Final Fantasy Dissidia while it installs onto my PSP, I'm wondering disc based media is a great storage media that's cheaper than carts, but has a bit of a load time and no means of game save on it, but installing games seems to becoming more and more the norm. PS3 was the first console to install games (on a mainstream sort of way) to reduce load times then the 360 gave in and now I guess the PSP is next letting you install games (Dissidia.
How do you feel about this? Do you think they're trying to phase out optical media for digital media? What's your opinion on digital media and do you still prefer a physical copy even if it just sits on your shelf awaiting reinstall? Heck, do you even use the option when given?