• pewpew@feddit.it
    4·
    2 days ago

    One day digital is also going to die and we will be forced to stream games on a crappy service that costs 50$ a month

  • flagpole268@lemmy.zip
    6·
    2 days ago

    I feel sad Radio Shack ran out of business bc now you have to be at least 30 years old to know you can still acquire rippers for $10 to rip/burn dvds, cds, and games. I still use my first Xbox and my latest PS5 as DVD players. The most expensive part is storage atp.

  • HackThePlanet@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    I don’t doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I’ve purchased.

    So, for me, you’re not buying anything, you’re just renting for the long term.

    Honestly, I’m tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.

    • Kaligalis@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Just make sure, that you don’t buy anything with unbroken DRM. If you ever lose access, you can just get it back from the pirates.

    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
      1·
      2 days ago

      Then become gog costumer number one, you could say we pay with our wallets and for the change, Gog is right there.

      but honestly, I like valve enough, me, personally, not to worry that much.

      • HackThePlanet@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Steam seems to be one of the very few services (perhaps even the only one I know of) that hasn’t transformed its product by following the trend of enshittification. I have many games on Steam, purchased years and years ago, many of which are no longer available, but I can still download and play, having purchased them back then.

        I really appreciate Steam, but from what I read every day, I don’t think “forever” exists, especially online. If we think of it in terms of “everything’s in the cloud,” well, the cloud costs money, so unless they somehow dispose of data, I don’t know if a company can actually keep every single piece of data “forever” while maintaining a good price and not losing out or burdening consumers.

        The same goes for physical copies: I could lose them, break them, my house burn down, and I’d lose everything, whereas if they were in the cloud, I wouldn’t have any problems. The point is that consumers should be allowed, where possible, to export what they’ve purchased. Honestly, I think that anyone who bought movies or other content on some platform and then years later discovered that the company had removed them and they could no longer use them (or worse, the same content was on another paid platform) would honestly bother me.

        • Prathas@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 days ago

          You’re forgetting the two most important words:

          I can still download and play

          … so far.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    3 days ago

    Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.

    No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.

    You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you’d better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.

  • hmmmmm@altgag.net
    79·
    3 days ago

    don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”

    aren’t you excited?

  • Kaligalis@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 days ago

    Physical mediums aren’t gone - they are just all HDD and SSD now.
    I switched from CDs to HDDs two decades ago. HDDs are still great as physical long-term storage.
    Your digital is just HDDs and SSDs in someone else’s computers.

      • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Data md existed. If it had been included from the beginning, md would have been a killer. As usual, Sony decided to shoot themselves repeatedly in the feet instead.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Not sure it was even used to distribute music. Was decent for copying a CD to it though…

      • 0x0@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 days ago

        No, music (unless you count Hi-MD) but except for cartridge i see no direct correlation between “games” or “general software” and the picture posted.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 days ago

    My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I’m going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don’t have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      How’s the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we’re running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.

      • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
        91·
        3 days ago

        Magnetic tape depolarizes over time. CDs were organic and they would literally rot away. But as long as your Blu-ray discs are high to low (HTL)/inorganic Then you’re really set for at least 30 years as well, just like professional tape, but at a fraction of the price.

          • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            I also have CDs that are this old. There’s a big difference between CDs that you can burn yourself, because those are using organic materials and the weak laser in your disk drive to burn them and professionally made disks, which are usually using inorganic materials and molds. The molds then are embossed into the datalayer of the CD, making it significantly more durable than organic discs.

    • GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Last time I was there they had Pokemon Crystal version for over $400, which is probably a fair price but reminded me the used games market is expensive :(

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      You know, I haven’t tried requesting a video game through interlibrary loan and now I kind of want to just to try it. I love inter library loan

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          i only have one librarian at the local library i dare ask for battletoads. we’ve been friends since about when we were born.

            • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              well also if she tries to beat me up for being stupid, as i would deserve, my belly is larger than her. i need a large belly for professional reasons.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 days ago

      I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
        6·
        3 days ago

        Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.

        • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
          61·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, used to. But people figured out years ago that old copies of pokemon go for 100€+ on ebay so they are basically hunting every thrift store or flea markets for elderly mothers who sell their sons stuff who moved out 10 years ago and hasn’t bothered picking his old stuff up.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      … all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.

      At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.

      But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.

      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, a lot of shops have gone off the rails with prices. The same thing happened with the vintage clothing market. All these folks started selling old shirts on eBay for like $50 minimum, and now all of the thrift stores are picked clean, or are selling those items at crazy prices themselves.

        I tend to get games that aren’t in the sought after list and get lucky sometimes. You can still find games at thrift stores if you’re lucky. You just have to hunt and be okay with disappointment lol.

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Less thanks to inflation and more due to scalpers who will buy them and flip them on ebay if they’re not

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Many are just Game Key Cards.

      Which are like Carts, but they need to download digitally. The worst of both worlds :D

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Well at least Nintendo themselves still releases full game cartridges and it’s not like you buy a Switch for third party games anyway. Nintendo only introduced the Gamekey card because third party publishers, especially Acti and Ubi, were releasing their own version on Switch 1 and not using consistent packaging labels to tell a gamekey from a full game cartridge apart so probably confused many consumers. Hence why Nintendo created an official version.