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Hide Private Photos on iPhone. Take Screenshot by Tapping Back of iPhone. Should You Upgrade to Windows 11? Browse All Windows Articles. OneDrive Windows 7 and 8. I don't own a PS4, but I'm curious if physical disc games are following the same trend on that system. Personally, I like the ability to install the whole game data from disc on the hard drive to decrease loading times, similarly to what the allows.
The only downside is that current games are huge, and I only have so much hard drive space. You actually don't have a choice anymore, at least on PS4. Same for the XBox One. This is pretty much my entire feeling too. I don't think I've ever sold a game, and probably only lent games once or twice. I hate having to switch disks, especially since my consoles are usually behind a cabinet door. Quote: It's also partly a habit - I'm old-school enough to buy all my music on CD when that option's available, even though I immediately rip them to storage, so that I have a permanent backup in lossless format.
Same here. I recently got the Joe Satriani collection box on audio CD. Do I listen to the actual discs? No, it's ripped to lossless and mp3 for portablility. But I love owning his collection physically, as a sort of archive medium that I can rip whenever.
Quote: I've been looking forward to a download option to be available for every game ever since the HDLoader days on the PS2. For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf. I guess to me the pleasure of owning certain games physically supersedes the annoyance of swapping discs. Since the new consoles auto-install the entire game to HDD, the value of physical has only increased since I know my disc games will play just as well as their digital counterparts.
Now, if they could find a viable way of playing disc-nstalled games off HDD without swappings discs ala HDLoader, I would only download small indie titles, everything else would be physical. SilverBlade wrote: For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf.
While I can understand the sentiment; video games cases don't appeal to me in that way. It's just one more set of things to box up, move and unbox whenever I decide to change where I live.
One more set of things to maintain while I'm living there. One more set of things to have to have space for. When I moved last I actually sold all of my paperbacks and the ones I couldn't sell I donated to the library and replaced many of them with digital versions. I still have my hardcovers because those are something that I do like to have on display.
Even then I only buy hardcovers from authors that I really like, want to read the paper book version of and will read multiple times. If I were to extend that mentality to video games I'd probably buy physical editions from Bethesda. Only if they had a really, really nice and unique case to display them in and not Yet Another Jewel Case. Put the disc in and it launches the installer, enter the serial number to tie the game to your account and install from disc.
Remove disc and do whatever you want with it. Only costs you the lack of resale and making a connection to the Steam servers once every 30 days. Microsoft tried to do that as well. Only they tried to find a way to keep resale terribly communicated and with no details about how it would work which caused them to require a daily connection to Live.
Of course we all know how that went down. Given the crappy state of the internet here in Australia it's discs for me. I am not caught up to the current generation of consoles but as far as what I would do it would depend on the game.
Anything large group play related Rockband, random sports game A, Mario Kart, and other stuff of this nature I would definitely continue buying the physical version just so that if I was going to a friend's house and it would possibly get played there I could bring it just like I do with board games.
Things that are mostly single player per console it would come down to price, pack-ins, and whether my ISP has my nuts in a vice over transfer caps at that point. I can count on one hand the amount of games I have ever resold and those were really just trades for other things to friends anyways so that really doesn't factor in even though I have stated the ability to do so as a reason I would never buy digital in the past.
KaiHein wrote: Anything large group play related Rockband, random sports game A, Mario Kart, and other stuff of this nature I would definitely continue buying the physical version just so that if I was going to a friend's house and it would possibly get played there I could bring it just like I do with board games. You can simply unplug the drive from your system, take it to your friend's house, plug it in to a system there and play whatever games that are on the drive once you've signed into Live.
I bought Watch Dogs on digital, since the Gamnestop in my area wasn't really open for midnight release. Good to know. This is something I will have to add into my decision of which one to get first, although it won't be something huge unless friends lean the same way not really a benefit if none of them have one too. There is still the whole ISP thing but that is something that will hopefully either get fixed or that I can manage around.
Generally, I get multiplayer games on disc, while single player and indie games digital. Sole exception was Metal Gear 5 demo, since Best buy was running a promotion. Discs are just way cheaper, plus I can ebay them when I'm done. However, I have bought digital indie games in sales. Digital makes a lot more sense for cheap small games that I won't play that often.
You'll be paying a lot of money for minimal and sometimes no benefit compared to a magnetic drive. I upgraded to a hybrid SSHD because the price difference was negligible compared to a straight HD and it sometimes offers slightly better speeds. That's true in the U. Since I rarely buy stuff on release day any longer, the physical disc is almost always cheaper.
That bad? In addition, downloaded games get associated with your user account, meaning they never get lost and are easily retrieved if you upgrade your console.
More incentive if you have a fast internet connection and or if you've upgraded to a 2TB hard drive. For the first six months, PS4 games are typically sold at their full retail value.
It's forever tied to your PSN account. PS4 game lingo, if youre shopping for PS4 games, its important to understand certain terminology. That tiny, tiny button. Many collectors and PlayStation aficionados enjoy the artwork and packaging included, and PlayStation 4 discs can be easily traded or resold. If you dont have your external HDD connected, the games youve played from it will still appear in your Home Screen list and Library however, theyll display a!
Knowing what each feature does and doesnt do will help you narrow down your choices. Scroll down to Storage. Image credit: Sony with the newer version of that standard PS4 commonly known as the PS4 Slim Sony has made the whole ejecting process a lot more simple by positioning a physical, properly pressable, eject button next to the power button.
Once formatting is complete, youll see a message confirming that its been successful and a small green light will appear next to the devices name, letting you know its activated as the main storage location. The PlayStation 4 Pro edition can unlock additional features for some games, most notably the ability to play in 4K resolution. Some disc-based games will require fortnite content updates from the internet for an optimal experience. Is there any difference between downloading a game or buying the same game on disc?
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