sonny1618 wrote:
All games are digital. That's how they work.
Paying money for a box seems slightly weird, but I guess I get what you're saying.
All games will always work on the device you purchased them to play on too, so the obsolescence thing doesn't really pan out. You don't have to get the latest and greatest device and the game makers are under no obligation to support every game they've made for every new gadget in the future. My old NES cartridges never worked in my SNES.
Well I don't really agree with "All games will always work on the device you purchased them to play on" comment.
This is especially true if iOS games that demand you to be connected to a company server. These servers almost always have an expiration date, and the game will no longer work after that point.
There are digital games (and by "Digital" I mean games you download from a particular service) on the PS3 that require you to have a constant connection to PSN in order to play or else it won't even start. Just as Microsoft shut down Xbox live support for the original Xbox a few years ago, I expect the same for current conses at some point... It may be 2 years, it may be 5 or more, but it's inevitable.
There are other benefits a to owning a physical game for the consumer, but I don't want to get into all of that.
Let's just say its nice to have the ability to let my brother borrow a game or trade it in towards another game (though I always keep every game I buy).
I am also into the collecting side of gaming as some are into collecting comics, stamps, or whatever.
I have about 8,000 boxed games and just about every American console, so I may not be their typical consumer. :P
There are some perks to having old boxed games too. I have some games that have gone up in value from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars.
