@craigtl: well, in the last year, Wii online access was shut down, and approx 2 weeks ago Microsoft took its own e-book store offline, offering no refund or method of backing up purchased books.
It is inevitable that a console will reach its end of life stage at some point.
Another example. In recent years the guitar hero and rockband games had their music licences expire for multiple songs. Therefore, people who paid for those songs then, have lost access to them now. It is a simple concept. If you don't physically own a game, and only own it digitally, inevitably, you will lose access to it.
The Internet won't shutdown, but companies, game services and storage services do.
Buy your games physical, look after them, and they'll last a whole lot longer than their digital counterparts.
In response to you closing question, if the next generation of consoles were digital only, would I buy them? No, I would not. I would never buy a digital only format and digital only games. At that point the obvious answer would be to buy a powerful pc and simply pirate any games I want, as the market for my preferred format would have been taken from me. Let's also consider I have some 30 years of legitimately purchased games and consoles to go back to should a digital only future for games be forced upon me.
This system is a bad idea. Yes, you own a physical console. But... You'll never own a single game on that console. When you buy a digital game, it is only ever a rental. One day, the server will go dark and you'll lose access to that game. Digital gaming is exactly the same as throwing your money away. There is no defence to this argument.
If you own a physical disc with the game data on it, you own the game. Full stop, simple as that.
With a digital only service you own NOTHING. EVER.
There's an old saying :- A fool and his money are easily parted.
As bad as the Division? What Division game are you playing, the one I've played is brilliant, with far more depth and character that Destiny 2 for example.
Or... You know....... How about giving people the single player game they wanted, without stupid pvp.
If they wanted to spice things up, make it a Co op enabled game, where you could join someone's game, complete quests, get xp and loot.... Whilst helping someone else.....a prime and brilliant example of this? Dying Light.
Pvp in a fallout game.... What a pile of shite idea that was.
I hesitated to buy this, but ended up doing so a week after release. I bought a physical copy, and when I popped it into the xb1 it then downloaded a 20 plus gb patch, which I have since read was a different build of the game.
Having played it for a few weeks on and off, I can say it's very entertaining. The game cost me £20. I judge the value of a game by how much it costs and how long I play it. I consider a £1 an hour a reasonable return on my investment. So far, I'm 40 plus hours in so I'm doing well in the bang for buck value market.
I've encountered a few minor bugs, and the slowdown. In that 40 hours the game has frozen up needing a restart 3 times, but NOT a system reboot. I'm happy with this game and my personal score? 7/10.
I would imagine nintendos high comment count on twitter was more about people discussing how unhappy they are with the consoles game release strategy. Not enough and not good enough I'd suggest.
That fact coupled with sonys terrible artsy approach and Ubisoft embarrassing music intro were fortunately, minor compared to some of the other wise excellent games on show for playstation and Xbox. Ninty just about mustered one good game and that was fire emblem.
What I find odd about E3 presentations, is that there were obviously more games on display at E3 that were never shown on the presentation. My advice? Drop the stupid stuff and preview EVERY game for your system at the presentations. If that doubles the presentation time, so be it. Have a short break midway through. Gamers want game, not artsy fartsy crap...groups of stupid looking dancers, people clowni G around on stage or white blokes trying to play Japanese flutes.... Leave it out. Show us the games, nothing else.
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