According to documents from Microsoft’s recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X

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    1 year ago

    I hope they don’t take this as a sign that physical media is dead. Personally, I still like to have the physical media, especially for single player games, so they can’t pull the rug out from under me if they decide to close their digital store, or lose the rights, or whatever. Digital only means you never really own your games.

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      1 year ago

      While I agree with you, the fact that no game has released in the past 10 years without major patches and updates means what’s on that physical media is useless

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        1 year ago

        It depends on how impactful those updates are. I have at least 200 hours in to Tears of the Kingdom, and I’ve been avoiding updates since very early days so I can use some item duplication glitches. I haven’t run into anything that makes the game unplayable, just some glitches that I have to put effort into doing, and I think make the game much better. But Nintendo is a company that would rather push back a release date than release a broken came “on time”.

        I do think the ability to push updates has made companies pretty lazy when it comes to making sure things are really solid before they ship.

        If I have to choose between a game with no updates, or no game at all, I’m going to pick a game with no updates. At least I have a sporting chance.