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[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 months ago

I’m always amazed by how the store near (Canada) me is always full. I don’t know I people are there to buy merch or what, but they’re never empty.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 36 points 7 months ago

I go there to buy Nintendo games because I don't trust Nintendo not to do weird crap with their digital goods.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago

basically nintendo and sony are dubious with digital,. since they dont host their own CDN, so the store is more prone to being shut down earlier than virtually all other competitors.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I'm old and buy physical whenever possible so I can trade them in when I'm done. It will suck when console online stores have the monopoly - I might have to go PC Master Race when that happens (complete with eyepatch).

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

As someone who's been PC only for some time over a decade, I love digital. Having to store disks and search for them when I wanted them sucked. It's a shame used isn't an option, but that was never a great value to consumers anyway. It saved some money, but it was mostly sucked up as profit by whoever was reselling them.

I don't even have a disk drive on my computer. I have several fairly large drives so I can keep a good number of games installed at a time, and load times are faster than from a disk too. I couldn't imagine going back. There is the risk of losing it all when a storefront goes down, but that's already the case with modern physical games which have always online components or DRM locked to a network.

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