Spyro fans, you've been Activisioned.
I hate this, it really worries me for game preservation, what if servers are closed in let's say 15 to 20 years? Retro gaming from today probably won't be a thing in the future.
This. I know 4K assets can be large (is this even going to be 4k on anything? not following closely) but 50GB is a still presumably a lot of space for something with this sort of art style - Blurays are cheap these days too. When scaling down the Switch's version they fit the Crash Trilogy on one cart, no downloads too.
Spyro fans, you've been Activisioned.
Doubt it most likely drm of some kind cause fuck you customer.
It defeats the whole damn point of a physical version. What's hard to understand the problem with that?
Preservation. I buy retail versions so I have the right and full control so I can play the game 20 years down the line, even if the dl service is discontinued or the company selling the game has went bankrupt. I will not pay 40€ just for Spyro 1 and a rental of 2 & 3.
I have to rely on satellite. So many people seem to think everyone has great internet or you're not playing games, like there are not parts of the US with crappy internet. If the 2 downloaded games are upwards of 30 or more gb's that's going to eat up a lot of my monthly allowance.
”... the death of physical media many many cherish will show its consequences once customers have no alternative and forgot about fighting for the sale ownership rights as they used to have with physical media (first sale doctrine bye bye...).
I am sure big publishers have a clear emotional reaction to the potential “oh no, people will be at the publishers’ mercy when a server is pulled down and/or content is removed from the digital store and the publishers will hold all the cards deciding when things are allowed to be BC or not or rereleased with minor patches and price hikes and can renegotiate it all more easily with the platform holder and will have effectively killed used sales and have a strong hold over consumers...”...
and the reaction is “whoooohoooooooo yeah!!!!!! The best thing about this is that we told them it would be better and cheaper for them and they bought it all up lol
I don't know if it will be that bad, Steam has lots of sales. I buy a lot of digital games during flash sales on my PS4 as well. On the flip side, Nintendo games rarely go down in price, physical or not. If I don't buy a Nintendo game new on release I tend to never buy because the damn things are full price three years later.
I think, even though I am very much against an all-digital future, that this is not entirely true. There still is an incentive to drop the price later on, because you may have gotten the full sales potential at a given price, but there may be users willing to buy the game at a lower price. If you time it well, then a price drop could lead to more profit overall, and since it is a purely digital good, this comes at not cost. However, Steam sales and similar show that this is very hard to balance. Overall though, I agree on the point, that playing games would get more expensive in an all-digital future and especially early adopters would be bitten in the ass.
