i don't think it matters though tbh. they will go ahead with the plan anyway.
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You mean that corporations are going to collude to do the thing that nobody fucking wants?
No way.
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If I was a console gamer I would have already stocked on all older consoles with all the disks, hacked a secondary console just because and move to PC for main online gaming. Let them suffer. Let them loose money.
But that would never happen. People will not stop buying. Sadly.
They knew before they started, either people took it lying down (unlikely) or there was backlash and reversal... Followed by announcement that disc version of next console is now $500 more expensive than digital, and physical discs will be produced, just at 1/10th the volume and doubled the cost of current.
Yup. It’s always by design. Corporate bullshit has been playing the long game.
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Huh their own survey doesnt even say people are not ready to let physical games die. It just says that 71% of people say they miss physical games but doesnt suggest any intention to buy physical games. There has been no time to miss physical games so the only reason you'd say that is if you werent buying them when they were available.
Actually kill me, this must hell. An entire subreddit dedicated to windows updates and xbox updates. I cannot think of anything more depressing. These people have had a rough decade https://www.reddit.com/r/windowscentral/
Actually revive me, most of the comments are people saying they've switched to linux and only use windows because they're forced to for work. Sanity restored.
I almost never play games but I've bought a bunch of physical copies of games I want to play. There's already SO MANY good games I haven't played yet that If new games are digital only I'll either go back to older consoles or piracy.
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Maybe they should have bought physical games instead of going almost entirely digital then?
They voted with their wallets already, and digital was the winner.
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