Good video from Luke Reilly. It’s a really great (and painful) point about discoverability for future racing games and other games with licensed content. Physical discs were always a backup that was there for people who came to a series late and wanted to go back and play the old entries - I did this with Forza Motorsport, DiRT, GRID, and others. That’s just not going to exist in the future.
That’s why I make it a point to buy each version of Forza Horizon on sale before it gets delisted, but it does suck for newcomers. I’ve always regretted not getting the X360 version of outrun!
You are 14 years old and want videogames to be your main hobby going forward? cool! You want to play *insert any de-listed game*? well shit you are out of luck young buddy! but you can always give us money for the 15th installment of that series that will come out next year, just do it quick because we will de-list this one as well in 5 years!
This is essentially the all digital future and it’s weird to me that some people handwaving this. I guess they don’t care enough about the medium and they only want to consume here and now and don’t give a f about the history and the future of the medium. It’s sad that a lot of people in the “core” community see the medium as only products that are there to consume so they can pass their time.
I used to play the mobile game. It’s on consoles now?
Then I hope no one is surprised when the entire industry follows Sony in doing no discs.
Maybe licensing needs to change so that game can be preserved in some manner
Not “maybe” lmao. Licensing as is just doesn’t work with the digital landscape. But who cares? They’re trying to fight that now but making slow progress. The EULA agreements we’re forced to agree to to play the game we bought are all awful and basically explain in detail how we have no rights as customers and the publisher can do whatever the heck they want. We know licenses are temporary and eventually they expire and the publisher either needs the pay up or stop selling the content. I’d wish they’d at least take a route like Hi Fi Rush where they provide unlicensed content to replace the licensed songs if necessary, but most people involved just don’t care. What does it matter to the publisher if a game is or isn’t available 5+ years after launch? It’s not like they’ll see huge sales (usually) that late on. And unfortunately governments just don’t protect us enough anymore
Haha it’s already happening
X: the tables really have turned
Ha ha ha, that looks familiar.
You can back up the game to Hard drives. I still have my Forza Horizon 2, 3 on my old Seagate 4TB Hard Drive that I used on the Xbox One
Now they’re review bombing on the App Store (Apple).
This is totally overshadowing the 400+ layoffs at Bungie.
So XBOX you know what to do next week after the rapture.
… Has Polygon ever been pro consumer/physical media before?
Already got their marching orders it seems.
They came from here…
I’ve been watching a lot of reaction videos to the PlayStation news from the usual content creators and it’s so predictable that they’ll insert a little aside about how “Xbox is doing bad stuff too so let’s not ONLY be mad at Sony.” Like once you notice the pattern it becomes almost comical.
Regarding Polygon specifically, that article about how “Red Dead Redemption 2 actually sucks” had me putting on my tinfoil hat, like if you wanted a take that will draw some of the heat off of Sony this weekend, that’s the take to do it.
Weirdly if you read it, they’re on about the technology, not physical media itself.
And they’re right, discs have always been a weird medium for games - they’re sequential so while you can skip, for games data has to be read all over the disc unlike movies or music which are usually continuous from start to finish.
That means slow reading and noisy poor performance to the point most games have to be installed to the hard drive, which takes feckin ages, particularly in this day and age of fast internet speeds where even with SSDs it’s often quicker to download the game than install via the slow disc speeds.
Cartridges were an expensive medium but good for performance, and in recent times I am surprised USB keys or SD cards didn’t become more popular as a way to balance cost and speed, while being more resilient than discs - but we know the answer is likely because Sony own the Blu Ray licence and make money from it
Yup, it’s this down playing of things that will screw everything.
Xbox firing people, yeah I acknowledge that it sucks, but they shouldn’t use Xbox being bad. To excuse Sony both firing people and ending physical media on their platform.
Specially because Sony has for the 2nd time revoked the licenses of digital movies from people that bought them. What’s stopping Sony from doing the same to their games?