I'll never understand consumers asking for less and really believing that with less options they will be rewarded to pay less lol
When we get to the point where Sony/MS/Nintendo are confortable enough to only sell digital consoles you can be sure they will still charge you exactly the same price they would if they had to add a disc drive.
On top of that after getting a PS5 with a disc drive, after buying literally only 3 physical games during the whole last gen, for this gen I realized how important options are. Like I said in a period of almost 8 years I only bought 3 physical games ( GTS, Fallout 4 and Doom ), meanwhile since I got my PS5, I havent completed 6 months with yet, I already bought 6 physical games and have Horizon Forbidden West pre ordered because of better deals and already covered up the difference between the disc and discless model.
As a consumer you should never ask for less, NEVER !
Especially when we are talking about platforms with walled gardens storefronts, like consoles.
What's bizarre is people dog piling for what would functionally be a better system than we have now.
PS5 disk is $100 more than PS5 digital. But if they sold a disk drive, there is absolutely no way they would sell it for $100. Absolutely no way. You'd be looking at $60, maybe $70, maybe $80 if they really wanted to push it. So it would be better for consumers to pay $400 + whatever the disk drive cost. That is just objectively better. It also means people who didnt' think they'd want physical and regret it have an easy solution. There is zero downside do it. So acting like "wow lol OP is stupid for suggesting this what an awful idea" is really fucking weird.
What's even more unhinged is some of the bizarre reasons to justify the arguments that OP is an idiot. Stuff like suggesting that having something external makes it more likely to break. Like what? When has that ever been true? Have people here ever ACTUALLY had an external drive? I've had like three and they all still work just fine except one that got smashed because my brother carried it around with him.
Like literally what is happening here is this weird monkey brain "wait, I have to buy TWO things? That's TERRIBLE" and just ignoring that you'd probably pay LESS total for more freedom. Maybe it doesn't look as pretty but when do you ever actually move your console where having two items to move would actually be an issue. You could even hide the console and only have the drive on display for an even tidier look. Even if you disagree with that that's entirely a subjective matter of taste. A far cry from oh my OP is such an insane, bold idiot for suggesting this horrible idea.
Like everyone is acting like OP is SUCH AN IDIOT and the reasons they are saying so are either reasons for why we shouldn't get rid of disks (which is utterly bizarre since that is in no way being proposed), or they are completely baseless (like suggesting that these new disk drives would be more likely to break, which is unfounded).
Really fucking weird thread. But kind of expected.
This is like when people got mad at Limited Editions of games not having the game included, when that literally is better for everyone involved. If you lop off the price of the game and instead let people buy it digital but still get the physical goodies, or let people decide to go physical if they want, it just means fewer SKUs which actually would lower the price even more. But everyone goes monkey brain "oh no i buy two thing?" and acts like it is just the stupidest suggestion ever. Just utter completely lacks of logic on such a shocking level. I can't believe people are actually that fucking stupid.
Im sorry but you are really, really inocent if you really think that in a world where the only PS5 available is the Digital one that :
1) Sony would still charge only USD400 for it.
2) Sony would charge a fair price for a disc drive.
If PS5D was the only PS5 available it would cost you the same USD500, Sony would charge you USD100 for a disc drive and possibly physical games would have an extra fee on top of them.
Remember when digital games were supposed to cost less because there was no middleman, logistics and physical materials involved on it ?
