PS4 Stuck With Discs "for the Foreseeable Future"

[kburns10]

I'm glad to hear this. At some point, I'll be ready for all digital. But I'm not quite there yet. Especially knowing that, more than likely, my current PSN purchases won't carry over to the PS4.

 

[Vault101]

I like optical drives, computer companies are removing them because "the PC is dead." While sony sondiers on with the PS4. Good on them.

wha? I dont get the connection between optical drives and PC's being dead

 

[aba1]

The whole push for everything to be digital is stupid. Most of the world has not got the stable internet connections etc to support this method and it would be extremely stupid to give 90% of the world the middle finger and say this is a rich mans hobby GTFO.

Plus being completely unable to use my system without being connected to the internet would suckkkkkkkkk which is what they seem to want.

Plus Plus I would rather actually own what I buy than what is essentially long term renting.

 

[aba1]

Stuck with? You say that almost like it's a bad thing. I wouldn't buy a console from any of the big three that didn't use a disc or cartridge of some kind, and I never will. I'm not alone, either.

I think in a few years the PS4/Xbox will move into digital streaming.

They can try, but the revenue they'd loose won't make it practical to make a game for any console; not with production costs as high as they are. For most people playing a streamed game is actually an impossibility right now. Who knows how long that will last, for some places in the world it may be near indefinite.

I am in the same boat. If things go digital only I will more than likely be pushed off gaming for good and with all multiplayer avoiding local game play like the plague it is already pushing me away to begin with since 90% of my gaming is done with friends playing co-op or multiplayer locally.

 

[aba1]

I don't really see why it has to be one or the other. Why can't the option be there to download the games if one wants or buy the discs? Do they feel that having both choices available would undermine physical sales somehow? Or vice versa? The way I see it, making every game digitally available is only increasing the market reach for your games. I get that the blu-ray games take up large hard-drive space, but is that any kind of reason to not at least offer them?

The reason they are pushing for digital only is for one reason... $$$$.

They make more money on digital sales since they sell for the same price and the company doesn't have to pay for the cases instructions or disks. Plus you can't share digital games with friends like you can physical copies nor can you resell the game used.

At the end of the day the all digital push will cost many people their jobs and take away customers right to do what they want with the game since it will be essentially long term renting more than actually owning.

But don't get me wrong if you like digital that is fine personally I like physical but that is why they want to push digital only.

 

[solemnwar]

Oh, good. Call me old-fashioned if you'd like, but I still prefer purchasing physical copies. Just something about being able to hold what I paid money for in my hand that I liked. Plus, um... I don't actually have all that much bandwidth per month, and my connection speeds aren't necessarily the greatest, so going entirely digital would make me very sad. I still download small, cheap things, sure, but a game like, say, Watch Dogs, which one would have to assume is fairly large, would probably take me a couple of days. And a large chunk of my monthly bandwidth limit. I'm perfectly happy sticking with Blu-Ray.

Yep, same here, although I loathe Blu-Rays and stick to DVDs (I do not have a ps3, so I guess this doesn't really apply to me anyways?). Although I do have a blu-ray player for my computer. I just can't use it because I don't have the proper thingymagic to hook it up to the monitor or something idk.

Also if physical sales die completely, that's a lot of jobs gone :/ Both production and retail. That's not really a good thing.

Also having a physical collection is so much more impressive. I mean, what's more impressive to people: a steam library, or rows and rows of shelves full of discs? Also easier to use them as improptu projectiles!

Blahblahblah I'm stuck in the past and dragging my heels into the future.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I like optical drives, computer companies are removing them because "the PC is dead." While sony sondiers on with the PS4. Good on them.

wha? I dont get the connection between optical drives and PC's being dead

Cnet and engadget say that sort of thing all the time.

 

[Vault101]

wha? I dont get the connection between optical drives and PC's being dead

Cnet and engadget say that sort of thing all the time.[/quote]
which makes no bloody sense since computers would get rid of optical drives faster than consoles (though really youd have to be pretty confident in your internet connection and reliance on downloadable media to not have an optical drive)

 

[putowtin]

With last Tuesday's PlayStation 4 announcement,

Escapist got the announcement two days before the rest of us.... no fair!

(Oh and I want a console that plays disks, my internet speed is so bad it took 5 days to download the Lair of the Shadow Broker dlc!)

 

[Dan Burcea]

I call BS on this guy with his southern europe big bussiness and low internet connections. I dont know what excatly he means by Southern Europe but I am pretty much south of every European country and I can tell you around here Sony does not even have a presence as a company. They dont have a Sonny office or distribution center and they dont have a PSN store.

About slow internet connections I call BS again. We have very good Internet around here, I can download Steam games with around 5 to 8 MB/s (that is MegaBytes not megabits).

All this is BS they want Blu Ray discs not because of customers needs but because their needs, because they own the disk technology, they are selling the players and they dont feel comfortable in a 100% digital downloads market.

 

[Evil Smurf]

wha? I dont get the connection between optical drives and PC's being dead

Cnet and engadget say that sort of thing all the time.

which makes no bloody sense since computers would get rid of optical drives faster than consoles (though really youd have to be pretty confident in your internet connection and reliance on downloadable media to not have an optical drive)[/quote]I'm not confident enough yet.

 

[Robot Number V]

Eh, I'm OK with that. When I play my PS3, I like the ability to just play my games right out of the box without a time-consuming download in my way.

OH WAIT.

 

[Arina Love]

i'm glad it do. When i'm buying games i like to have physical copy.

 

[Fanghawk]

With last Tuesday's PlayStation 4 announcement,

Escapist got the announcement two days before the rest of us.... no fair!

(Oh and I want a console that plays disks, my internet speed is so bad it took 5 days to download the Lair of the Shadow Broker dlc!)

Damn it, I've been displaced in time AGAIN. Where's Doc Brown and Sam Beckett when you need them?

Fixed. And thanks!

 

[Roxor]

Just look at .kkreiger: It's a one-level FPS which looks as good as Doom 3, but it only takes up 96KB. If that can be done by amateurs ten years ago, then there's no excuse for professional developers today to not be matching them.

Although efficient programming and what not is a nice thing to aim for, with 50Gb blu-rays it isn't really needed.

That is exactly the attitude I'm complaining about: "Screw efficiency. We have disk space to burn."

If everyone coded with .kkreiger's levels of space efficiency, we'd be thinking "What the hell is up with Sony? Why are they giving me a thousand times more disk space than I need for my game?"

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

Discs should always be an option. With my ps3 I buy a 300g hd for $100 and its full of digital content a year later, I'm left stressing over what to delete to fit more things on it. OR I can stuff a shoebox full of games on a shelf and fill up my games collection indefinitely like a good little hoarder.

I have boxes full of dream cast games I can play at the drop of a hat but a bunch of ps3 digital purchases I got months ago that I forgot I had because I cleared them out to make room for the latest additions to my instant game collection.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Wait, STUCK with discs? They make it sound like it's a chore! I'm OK with this, but it would be better if I still played PS3 discs on it.
I'm not the first person to say that, am I? I skipped the rest of the comments here and went straight to posting my thoughts.

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