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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Considering this thing is bound to be a 500GB Clusterfuck with even more gigs of Day 1 patches I don't even know what physical media would look like.

Might as well switch to NFC Cards with the license inside them at this point.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The physical media should be a 500GB M.2 SSD containing the game. Plug and play haha

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They are building ssds like that that can be killed remotely, I could see games being bought that way

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

A disc with a licence on it is better than a single use download code.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hesitate to ask but you know Nintendo already did that yeah? Like it sounds like you may know but just to make sure.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least did more honestly (clearly put a "DO NOT PURCHASE" label on the box) than a fake 50mb stub that just tells the user "there's a 200gb update to download, you need to go online and download it" that too many games are doing nowadays and there's no way to know if the game is actually included or the purpose of the disc is to be a DRM

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Oh for sure, it's a real weird time for the industry in that way. I'm not a fan, but I guess when the world ends the 360 will reign supreme?

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

thumb drive? Should easily fit into a case