I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.
Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.
Killing discs in the middle of a storage cost crisis where you can only fit like four games on a drive to begin with is quite the move. See Xbox just cutting its 2TB model since it costs too much
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
Effective today, Nivalis is officially becoming Nivalis Nights. It is the exact same game you have been waiting for, just with a fresh new title and logo.
#NivalisNights will land on Steam September 29, 2026.
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Steam machine expensive.
Another indicator of rise in hardware prices because of *waves broadly at dumpster fire that is the world* that will price regular folk out of native hardware.
You’re going to see a lot of “streaming hardware free with subscription” in coming years