Huh, this again. I don't think consumers as a whole are ready for digital distribution only, especially for console games. And there is little incentive to buy digital. Maybe digital is the future, but it ain't the present.
Uh, your companion could die in The Last of Us. It only happened to me once, but it happened. In my opinion, some games work with perma death, but The Last of Us is not one of those games.
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