For other games that are quick to finish, or games that someone would only play once, these hybrid gamers buy the disc. Because they can resell it once they are done and recoup some of the original cost. There should be information about various technical requirements, including the minimum hard drive space that you need to be able to play the game. Of course, the game may take up a bit more than that, especially once you start saving a lot of extra files related to it.
Many movie rental stores and kiosks also have games available for a variety of consoles. Is There Another Option? How do you buy your games? Disc, digital, or a little of both? Apr 29, - Hellblade is an award-winning PS4 game that's exclusively available digitally. Once you rule out digital downloads and discs, cartridges are the only. Pointing to the vast difference between music and game file sizes — a. PS4: Any in-game difference between digital download and physical disc?
I was just wondering if there is any difference in-game between a digital download from PSN store and physical disc. That may be fine for some, and too slow for others. Also, if you have a cap on your data usage, keep an eye on it—those closer to their caps may prefer to buy discs as well.
Furthermore, for brand new games, you may end up playing it sooner if you download it. This means the game is downloaded and ready to go as soon as midnight on the release day rolls around. Discs can get scratched, lost, cracked, stolen, and any of a dozen other things that read like a list of disasters not covered by your car insurance. If you lose a disc, you lose the ability to play that game. With downloads, however, your games are totally safe, with or without insurance.
The biggest thing that physical discs still have going for them is the secondhand market. When I was younger I used to rely a lot on secondhand games. There are some complex workarounds bandied about online, but nothing as simple as just handing your friend a disc. With a physical game, you still get the pleasure of sharing games with other people. Personally, I download almost every game I buy. I miss the bargains of secondhand games and being able to share things with my friends, but downloads are just so much more convenient than physical discs.
Customize the Taskbar in Windows What Is svchost. Browse All Buying Guides. Best Lightning Cables. 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?
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