Speaking at the “Il Cinema in Piazza” Film Festival in Italy (translated by Genki), the Death Stranding and Metal Gear director said that at least with digital games, users have the data on their systems, something that isn’t the case with cloud gaming.
“Since production is ending in 2028, this is about video games, but I grew up with physical media, so I find it really sad,” he said. “Currently, I’ve been buying up a lot of Blu-rays, such as various movies, and CDs too.
“The situation is different for games [than movies], as they are downloaded to the hard drive, that means the game data remains on your own hardware. However, if things shift to streaming in the future, that won’t be the case anymore.”
hence why I’ll never own a playstation device again.
But who is left? Nintendo?
And that’s only because Nintendo tend to lag about 5 years behind everyone else. They’re not sticking with physical out of their belief in physical games, that’s for sure. Half their stuff is already a key and a download.
Realistically, it wouldn’t really matter about discs at all if we had real digital rights. The rights to transfer games from one account to another, or even between stores. The rights to copy games to other devices, and copy them back again, or even from an online source if the original disappears for whatever reason.
Physical games could take the form of a keycard with a license on it, similar to a credit card chip. Scan it on my machine to attach to my account. Scan it on another to attach to someone else’s account and remove from mine. Run offline by leaving the card in the machine.
I still buy blurays because I like owning the disk. I should have the same option for video games
I agree, and buy physical games too, but I don’t think the law can mandate a disc drive.
It could mandate that digital goods remain ours forever, and that companies provide a way to keep them forever.
We’ve been lucky that the main players in this are still going. Valve, Sony, MS and Nintendo have deep pockets. But we’ve seen companies go bust before, and they’ll go again. Sega were the top dog until they weren’t. Before now we’ve always had the physical option. Now we won’t. This is the tipping point and laws must be made to protect us before we lose everything.
cool let them drop a ps6 with no disk drive 😂 becsuse they just reinvented the laptop. think about how much sense it makes for them to take the long way to reinvent the wheel.