• VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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    20 days ago

    This was me a decade ago when Xbox suggested something like this. Nintendo was shutting down their old eshops and making purchased games in playable and Playstation was selling shovelware on their online store.

    In a dystopia like that… Suddenly, Steam’s digital only didn’t look so bad.

    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Xbox’s digital future was actually incredibly user friendly - it was all digital, but it allowed people to re-sell and loan their digital games. People were just too dumb to understand what was so good about it.

      The alternative is what Sony are now doing - all digital with zero of the perks of physical.

      • vividspecter@aussie.zone
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        20 days ago

        People were just too dumb to understand what was so good about it.

        I wouldn’t have trusted Microsoft to follow through on this in the long term. I have little doubt they would have removed that concession as soon as they thought they could get away with it.