3 ms·
(In response to the storage complaints...) Please buy game carts instead of eShop games. Instead of renting a license indefinitely (eShop) you get an actual pi
by ReverseCold 9y ago
(In response to the storage complaints...) Please buy game carts instead of eShop games.
Instead of renting a license indefinitely (eShop) you get an actual piece of plastic and some paper (resale value later) which you actually own.
- BoorishBears 9y agoThere are games coming on carts that still require a large download, and 64GB cartridges have been delayed
- bitwize 9y agoIndeed. The new paradigm seems to be to combine the worst of both worlds. In PS4-land, the new normal for disc-based games is they cannot be played without the disc, but install their complete data to your PS4's hard drive, occupying tens of gigabytes of space.
- BoorishBears 9y agoMicrosoft tried to solve this by using physical disks as the equivalent of a download code + a medium to reduce how much you have to download off the internet, but the backlash forced them to go back. It's true it'd have killed the secondary market, but I'd have appreciated not needing the disc to play after the initial install.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- crtasm 9y agoSame on xbox. Loading times would be unacceptably long without doing so, as I understand it.
- scrollaway 9y agoThat's a lot less convenient and game carts can break, get dirty and no longer work, etc. I don't even own the console (it's not rooted). As long as I don't, this doesn't matter. Once I do own it, I will make backups of my downloads, which I can actually own.