In order to undercut the series x and to sit closer to the series s. I am confident that Sony is willing to sell the digital at a bigger loss than just component cost, which they can with guaranteed digital sales.
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I plan to buy the physical model...when it's $399. I'm willing to wait for price drops if it ends up being that expensive.
What do you mean? Physical games take just as much space on your hard drive. You'll have to expand storage either way.
Digital
- Because physical drives break down: My PS4's drive randomly makes gagging noises at 2AM for no reason
- Last physical game bought was Arkham Knight and I don't buy physical movies
I haven't bought a physical disc for a good while now. So DE for me. Maybe a disc as my other ps4 replacement down the line.
digital, even if the price diff is smaller
1) i live in a small place, and im already struggling with room for my existing collection
2) i hate having to swap discs when i feel like playing something just for a bit
3) the appeal of physical boxes have gone down to near 0 during this gen anyway, you don't even get a proper manual anymore, the boxes themselves are super flimsy, and frankly majority of box arts are generic anyway.
bonus: discs are literally just drm checks even with this gen, all games need to be installed anyway.
1) i live in a small place, and im already struggling with room for my existing collection
2) i hate having to swap discs when i feel like playing something just for a bit
3) the appeal of physical boxes have gone down to near 0 during this gen anyway, you don't even get a proper manual anymore, the boxes themselves are super flimsy, and frankly majority of box arts are generic anyway.
bonus: discs are literally just drm checks even with this gen, all games need to be installed anyway.
I'd sell my PS4 and still buy the physical edition. Although I've leaned more towards getting games digitally when they go on sale, I still like the option of buying used physical games, especially if publishers largely decide to make $70 the MSRP next gen.
I'm currently playing Death Stranding which I got for $18 at Best Buy a couple weeks ago on sale. While I'm sure it'll hit that price digitally in the next half a year or so, I liked being able to go out and buy it when my local store had it on sale. A $100 price difference is worth that option to me + playing my current PS4 physical titles.
I'm currently playing Death Stranding which I got for $18 at Best Buy a couple weeks ago on sale. While I'm sure it'll hit that price digitally in the next half a year or so, I liked being able to go out and buy it when my local store had it on sale. A $100 price difference is worth that option to me + playing my current PS4 physical titles.
Digital day one is like 30% more than physical here so wouldn't work.
Physical for a couple reasons:
1) Just in case.
2) There's a shop in L.A. that breaks street date, and on certain titles I'll be very impatient.
3) Another UHD player in the house.
It's basically just security. I've been digital-only on purchases for the last couple years, though.
1) Just in case.
2) There's a shop in L.A. that breaks street date, and on certain titles I'll be very impatient.
3) Another UHD player in the house.
It's basically just security. I've been digital-only on purchases for the last couple years, though.
I can understand why someone who doesn't have the luxury to buy as they feel like would take the $100 off. But for me I see it as that's the price of 1 game or damn close to it. It's not worth not having even the remote option to not be able to play one of the blu-rays I have in my house as I'd be getting rid of my PS4 when I get the PS5.
the digital could be 299 bucks and I'd still go physical mostly because I still resell my games. The amount of money I save with that easily surpasses 200 bucks over a whole generation.
Unless digital plans to match physical prices at launch, I'll stick with physical.
Were talking like a $30 difference per game
Were talking like a $30 difference per game
I'm pretty dead set on the physical version unless it's over $150 more. Even if it was $200 more I'd consider it, though more then that I'd get the digital version and a standalone BluRay player. Disc games frequently go on sale for less then physical games, it doesn't take that many purchases for an extra $100 to pay for itself.
I do like the profile of the digital version more though.
I do like the profile of the digital version more though.
Physical. People who are buying the digital only model are thinking about the short term & not the long term. There are plenty of flaws with being digital only.
1.) You can't re-sell digital copies of games like you can with physical.
2.) Digital gaming prices are always at full prices the majority of the time on consoles, while physical copies of games usually gets discounted after a certain while.
3.) If you happen to somehow get banned from PSN, all of your games are locked to the platform & you can't ever play them again.
4.) What would happen if a company de-lists a game in which it gets taken off of the PS store from either licensing issues on certain games running out? Obviously you can re-download the games if you happen to buy them, but if for some reason they decide to take those games off of PSN servers entirely? If something awful happens to either your console, or if your HDD or SDD somehow gets corrupted & needs to be reformatted, there goes everything that you bought & downloaded.
5.) Then there's also the issue with data caps that a lot of people may have, plus downloading full versions of games takes a century.
At least with physical, we're guaranteed to replay the same games that we bought over & over until we decide to either give them away or trade them for another game. Plus you would also get a UHD Blu-Ray player by buying the physical model, too.
1.) You can't re-sell digital copies of games like you can with physical.
2.) Digital gaming prices are always at full prices the majority of the time on consoles, while physical copies of games usually gets discounted after a certain while.
3.) If you happen to somehow get banned from PSN, all of your games are locked to the platform & you can't ever play them again.
4.) What would happen if a company de-lists a game in which it gets taken off of the PS store from either licensing issues on certain games running out? Obviously you can re-download the games if you happen to buy them, but if for some reason they decide to take those games off of PSN servers entirely? If something awful happens to either your console, or if your HDD or SDD somehow gets corrupted & needs to be reformatted, there goes everything that you bought & downloaded.
5.) Then there's also the issue with data caps that a lot of people may have, plus downloading full versions of games takes a century.
At least with physical, we're guaranteed to replay the same games that we bought over & over until we decide to either give them away or trade them for another game. Plus you would also get a UHD Blu-Ray player by buying the physical model, too.
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I think I'd go with digital, I'm mostly digital anyways and the few disc based games I wanted to keep I traded in and bought on digital when they were cheap.
It's good to have options, but at a $100 difference I might be swayed, at $50 I would probably go with disc.
It's good to have options, but at a $100 difference I might be swayed, at $50 I would probably go with disc.
I am already waiting for the Pro versions but if i was buying at launch this would cause me not to buy either versions. It's a really big fuck you to the userbase and i don't get the championing for this to actually happening. The difference in cost is not a 100$/€.
I wanna be able to play my physical PS4 games and I'd make back the $100 in about 4 months from not buying my games on the PS Store.
I plan to buy the physical version regardless of cost. I don't want to limit my options by default.
1) I don't resell games
2) Digital games go on sale all the time. Yes you have to catch it but those old games you are talking about are the ones that are always included when sales go on. I feel like the Witcher 3 is on sale every other week along with every AC.
3) I've been a member of PSN since it's inception and have never been banned so I think I'll be okay.
4) delisted games can be redownloaded, SSDs fail less than HDD, and disc getting messed is just as likely as an SSD going bad.
I'm already digital, i'll keep going digital, I've got no reason to have a disc drive on a new console
i haven't had one on my PC in over a decade
i haven't had one on my PC in over a decade
I prefer physical in general, but even if I didn't with regional pricing digital PS4 games launch at $90-$110 here while I can find physical for $70-$90.
I'd make back the $100 very quickly.
I'd make back the $100 very quickly.
Physical, but not for games. I want it for 4k UHD movies, even if physical media is going away.
Just sold my last disc game on PS4 so digitally. With prices so high now ($89.99 looks like for games here in Canada) I can save money buying PSN cards at Costco and no tax on PSN makes it sting a bit less. Plus I hate having shit laying around.
Physical. Aus psn store prices can be a lot higher than retail. For example lou2 is $68 aud since launch on amazon but $99 on psn.
