Has that been true in the last decade? These days discs are basically just a license code to download the game.
I recently got a deal on Star Wars Outlaws (20 dollars) on Disk and Mario Kart World (80 dollars) on Cartridge if I bought them together.
The disk installation took an hour, there was a 20GB patch included, it asked for the 2nd disk which failed to install as something from the first disk was incomplete I guess. The work around was to wipe the installation and re-download it from the online store - with the disk only providing proof of purchase after the fact.
The Nintendo cartridge worked immediately with no issue.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can’t praise nintendo on lemmy. They are the scum of the earth or something, because they brick systems that get hacked/jailbroken, or something.
And the 20 million folks who bought a switch 2 last year are all corporate dick sucking stupid ignorant fools who should have pirated everything on their Linux PC/steamdeck or something.
Just enjoy your console (or something).
It’s pretty fair to hate Nintendo
I agree. But lets be honest. Is there any point in liking any gaming company? None of them are ethical. Some are just slightly less worse.
Console tribalists have always been wild to me regardless of brand.
In fact that person was saying “just pirate on ya pc or steamdeck” instead of “use console XYZ”
yeah, the disc is a dongle basically.
ps3/xbox360 was the last time they ran anything off disc. that was 15-20 years ago, yep. an entire generation.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the PS3 was that way, even. I’d have to imagine a lot of discs that are already out there would case to work the moment Sony shut down its servers. (And probably similarly so for Microsoft games. Switch seems much better about that, though they do sometimes require a firmware upgrade… unless you hack your Switch of course. And I have no frame of reference for how much that is the case for the Switch 2, but I can’t imagine Switch 2 being better than Switch 1 in that regard.)
The ones I got ~15 years ago had installers on them. Makes sense, running a game from a DVD drive would probably result in terrible loading times.
150gb day one patch. “Lol, Lmao.”
But I have an SSD, it reads data so much faster than that plastic disc
Also, downloading the game is like 4 times faster than installing from disc.
Way more if you consider the time to get the disc
this devate is a 77% bullshit nostalgia 32% reasonable consumer policies.
109% content!
i really don’t get the outrage over any of this.
but i just like playing games and i’m a filthy casual console peasant. i don’t enjoy being whining and aggrieved about the ‘industry’ conspiring against me. i only buy physical media because it’s often cheaper than digital, and I only buy games that have been out like a year or two anyway when they are $20-30 or less.
the way gamer people whine on the internet you’d think they all have a Jesus complex. They are the sole person who will save gaming from it’s sins or something…
How DARE YOU have a rational thought about this OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL, the internet demands you be in an uproar about this.
am i suppose to blame Trump, elon, facists, and Israeli for this too? or am i not trendy enough who who I am villianizing?
maybe I should be blaming Graham Platner because of his scandal yesterday? clearly it’s his fault or something.
clearly the prices and purchasing options of video games are the soley and supreme issue of our time. can’t wait till we have a presidential candidate who runs on ‘bring playstation discs back’ or BPDB.
maybe we can rebuild gaza and liberate the palestians by having them build retro linux powered gaming devices that run on pirate printed physical media, or something else equally absurd. clearly that’s a multi-billion dollar market…
You know what, I take back being on your side.
cool, i love petty people who think everything about is about us vs them.
It absolutely is though, just like it has always been.
