Banana Kid
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For me, it's the convenience of having all my games on the system at the same time. Swapping between games without changing carts is a much better experience.
You can't sell them back, you can't buy them from cheaper retailers, you can't buy used, and you can have all your games on on proprietary cart that you may need multiples of in the future depending on how many games you want to download that cost upwards of $100 for the largest size.
You guys, always joking!
Have you just not looked at the Vita games in the PSN store? Most of them are cheaper than their retail versions.
I paid $20 for wipeout, hot shots golf, marvel vs capcom, and Katamari. I paid $26.66 for virtua tennis, lumines, uncharted, and Rayman
How much are they on psn?
I paid $20 for wipeout, hot shots golf, marvel vs capcom, and Katamari. I paid $26.66 for virtua tennis, lumines, uncharted, and Rayman
How much are they on psn?
Yep, we'll probably be carrying >1TB cards in the Vita by the end of this handheld gen.
Shit you got on sale obviously doesn't count in the comparison. Stuff goes on sale on the PSN store sometimes too. The regular price for those games is much higher than what you paid.
Why does it matter if I got it on sale? There are always sales on retail games. They are more frequent and usually better deals. Let's not forget price drops and clearance. No matter how you slice it, retail ends up cheaper.
Except, you know, buying new games at full price because most games don't go on sale day 1.
They both have plus and minuses.
I personally do a combination... Bigger & SP only games (Uncharted, Rayman, NGS+) get on physical. Smaller, MP & Heavily re-playable games (Lumines, SSD) get on digital.
This is definitely a valid concern. Going all digital is not feasible with a measly 32 gb card. In the long term if you eventually run out of space you'd have to uninstall games and or start buying carts. Need a 1 terabyte up in this.
I have a 350 on my ps3 and I only have 100 gigs left so I guess it depends on the life of the product. 10 year life cycle is not gonna happen on a 32 gig card.
This is definitely a valid concern. Going all digital is not feasible with a measly 32 gb card. In the long term if you eventually run out of space you'd have to uninstall games and or start buying carts. Need a 1 terabyte up in this.
I have a 350 on my ps3 and I only have 100 gigs left so I guess it depends on the life of the product. 10 year life cycle is not gonna happen on a 32 gig card.
hell, most of the games can be purchased physically for cheaper like when there was the B2G1 deal on. Right now, purchasing Vita games through the PSN is a ripoff, especially when memory cards cost so much.Price, but that's offset by expensive memory cards.
Have you just not looked at the Vita games in the PSN store? Most of them are cheaper than their retail versions.
You guys, always joking!
This describes me as well.I would happily go digital if the physical ones didn't exist... it's just that if there's a pretty box... I feel compelled to get it :/
Except, you know, buying new games at full price because most games don't go on sale day 1.
But they usually do. Onviously you don't pay attention to sales.
Instant gratification.
Convenience and protection. If I lose my Vita, I can redownload the games and steal someone else's Vita.
I lost my launch day PSP-1000 with all my UMDs on a flight.
Well, on the ps3 I'll choose digital (if equal price) so I can game share between my 2 systems. Same would apply to the vita if a household owns 2 of them.
The problem with this argument is that there are so many factors that come into play for different people in different countries.
Good thing smart people don't buy games they don't want.
because this doesn't look ridiculous in the slightest:
Despite how much I prefer physical, I have to agree that the case has to be made for physical instead due to how they gimped physical releases (slightly more obnoxious to switch and the bubble for the game can be lost in a sea of them, NOTHING in cases but codes when relevant)... Still, I think the case can be made that way too:But to the OP, the question of whether digital is more beneficial than physical is crazy to me. Physical media should have to build an argument for why it's more beneficial than digital, not the other way as you are proposing. I simply do not see how physical copies have any benefits other than the potential for resale and displaying a collection. Everything else about physical media sucks in comparison to digital.
because this doesn't look ridiculous in the slightest: