(Rumor) ps6 will be sonys final console

[Stookymalarkey]

Not only if the servers die, but if hour console decides to kick the bucket, too, unless there's a recovery method in place.

Too true. Video games are unique in that they require specific technology to use. DVDs and BluRays can be watched on any player and you can still find cheap ones being made, and you can pick up and read physical books without any issue. But if your PS3 kicks the bucket you ain't going to find new consoles that can play your disks in the future.

 

[Noon]

I like both, digital cause i can pay the dev directly even years after the game comes out (instead of John Doe on eBay) and physical cause it’s just mine no strings attached.

But who knows? Maybe there’ll be digital only but you’ll be able to order a “physical print disc” from the dev or even a brick and mortar game store will print games off for you to buy, instead of devs printing off 250,000 copies and praying they’ll all sell.

 

[moonbits]

nah

 

[Roy00125]

Not only if the servers die, but if your console decides to kick the bucket, too, unless there's a recovery method in place.

Just like happened to Wii, 3DS and Wii U also Xbox 360 and PS3, Digital store was shut down and gaming console is no longer supported by company

 

[RageBurner]

Just like happened to Wii, 3DS and Wii U also Xbox 360 and PS3, Digital store was shut down and gaming console is no longer supported by company

Exactly, one of the reasons preservation is necessary.

 

[Stookymalarkey]

I like both, digital cause i can pay the dev directly even years after the game comes out (instead of John Doe on eBay) and physical cause it’s just mine no strings attached.

But who knows? Maybe there’ll be digital only but you’ll be able to order a “physical print disc” from the dev or even a brick and mortar game store will print games off for you to buy, instead of devs printing off 250,000 copies and praying they’ll all sell.

That would be nice. Only problem is that the console will need to have disk drive or a card slot (like the Switch), and if digital makes up the majority of sales anyways there's no incentive for Nintendo, Sony or whoever to include that functionality. At that point the physical media is just decoration.

 

[Noon]

That would be nice. Only problem is that the console will need to have disk drive or a card slot (like the Switch), and if digital makes up the majority of sales anyways there's no incentive for Nintendo, Sony or whoever to include that functionality. At that point the physical media is just decoration.

It would be a long term market strategy, right now the market is extremely short instant term.

But I don’t think the “one constant digital internet” is going to smother everything like we think it’s going to. wasteful energy usage is going to be clamped down in the future, and with higher tech changes, payment security, hacking, viruses, AI, having 100 digital products constantly up takes a crazy amount of perpetual resources and human monitoring to maintain. It will turn into a costly formality just to be digitally present.

It won’t be a reliable enough venue anymore, not ruined, but fall down a tier just like other industrial movements. I mean, trains can carry way more than cars, but we have more paved roads than railways on the world today.

Making a less risk environment would mean less of a need for strings attached to the products, it’s not about selling more than others, it’s making a stable environment.

And physical isn’t done evolving yet either.
You could always include free patches and updates on the discs of other games, just like demos are, And compiling low price games and DLCs of other games onto one full price disc. Not as a main practice, but a backup for if the digital fails.

The industry right now is just to geared to instant short term, so it looks like it cant be done, but it’s a not set in stone setup either.