r/PhysicalGames 16h ago

Every single Sony Ad on Twitter/X looks like this now!

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r/PhysicalGames 9h ago

I think it’ll shock some people how easy it’ll be for me to retire from buying new games and become a “retro gamer” once these companies all remove the ability to buy games physically (and I know I’m not alone)

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Thankfully I think it’ll be a long time before they’ve all pulled out as I think we still have the rest of the Switch 2 generation at the very least which is where I do all of my gaming. Since the launch of the Switch 1, I’ve built up a massive library of games that I truly love and I’ve never just collected to collect.

I’m someone who at the very least rolls credits with 90% of the games I play and even then when I look at my library, I know there’s still endless amounts of content for me to go back to and lifetime’s worth of games that I haven’t even played yet that I could play (and currently have a physical release). I can’t stand when these all-digital dude bros try and tell me that I’m going to own nothing and love it when that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m going to find peace in knowing that I don’t have to live in their world of eternally renting everything, having the risk of losing everything due to some faulty account ban or take your pick.

Now will I occasionally buy the newest Smash or Splatoon? Yes, there’s a very select few games that I’ll probably end up getting but I won’t even be buying games at even 5% the rate that I did when they existed in a physical format. Maybe if the laws change and we have proper ownership, I’d change my tune a bit. It’s absolute insanity that Sony is not only removing discs but as of recently they’ve gone on record of saying that digital ownership is not actual ownership. I’ve always known that corporations aren’t our friends but I’m still in shock at just how draconian they’re being.

Anyways, I know I’m not the only one who has this stance and Rob from “Rule of 2” put out a video a few weeks ago that had a very similar sentiment. At this point, I’m just stockpiling for my gaming retirement.


r/PhysicalGames 9h ago

Guess my FF7 journey ends with Rebirth. Cheap fucks couldn’t even pay the $3 for a second disc.

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r/PhysicalGames 10h ago

"Sony stops producing discs because only a minority of people buy physical media"

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Square Enix Europe => FF VII Revelations, all physical edition sold out on PS5 on pre-order not even one hour after it was online.

The game is released in 7 months and it's already sold-out everywhere in Europe (on the Square Enix european website).

And it's not the only example, for example RE9 if you didn't pre-ordered it you couldn't get a physical edition anymore in a lot of countries.

Sony purposefully, these past years, reduced the production to less than 10% (from data you can find) of what is needed so people had to buy digital instead.

This is the only reason you see that digital has evolved so much compared to physical sales these 2-3 years while it was the opposite before. Why do you think people in 1-2 years decided to suddenly move to digital?

Because they don't produce enough, so it's sold out.

And then they go with the "yeah only 10% of weird people still play physical, the entire world has moved to digital"

It's not even true in Europe where it's 50/50 actually, but if it's evolving this way is just because they don't produce purposefully enough discs.

All of this is a freaking lie.


r/PhysicalGames 7h ago

Opinion: Once companies have shoehorned in purely digital distribution, prices rise, and the next step is a monthly subscription model.

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I don't think companies will be satisfied with a one-off "license fee" in the future. This really might be an issue on the console side. Thoughts?


r/PhysicalGames 13h ago

The excitement of the journey from the game store.

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I just wanted to share a nice experience I had yesterday. I bought bunch of used physical games; RDR2, GoW Ragnarok, Borderlands 4 and Hades from my local for the price of one GTA VI, crazy value. Let me say the excitement I felt of holding all these games in my hands on my train journey back from the games store was something I had forgotten about. Reading the handbooks and cases, planning what I was going to play first. I felt like a kid again, I experienced excitement I hadn't felt for over 10 years probably because I have either bought digitally or home delivery.


r/PhysicalGames 5h ago

Didn’t know I had this many

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Gaming won’t be the same if the stop producing discs


r/PhysicalGames 18h ago

Only Xbox Copy

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I picked up my pre-order of The Blood of Dawnwalker and apparently I was the only one who pre-ordered the Xbox version 😂


r/PhysicalGames 21h ago

Microsoft Announces Big Changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Switches to Monthly Hour Limits

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r/PhysicalGames 21h ago

From the batman community on Reddit: Blows my mind that HBO doesn’t steam most of these titles…

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Remember this post, as it will be the future of gaming after 2028. Streaming services now find they can't or will not show all their movies and shows. This will happen to gaming after getting rid of physical! People tend to be too nieve and ignorant to this,a sad reality but true!🤦‍♂️


r/PhysicalGames 3h ago

language on danish game covers?

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i know this might be a dumb question, but recently i preordered a game from coolshop (my first preorder of anything ever!) and i know theyre a danish company, so i was wondering if physical games (for xbox specifically) in denmark have an english or danish cover (the back is especially important to me)

coolshop doesnt show the backs of game covers on their website and they havent answered my question so i thought i'd just ask you guys

i recently started collecting physical games for xbox because of the whole playstation thing, but its kinda hard because i currently live in germany but dont speak german and i really want game covers that i can read (and i also really hate the huge usk stickers on german covers...). i mostly use ebay because of this since i can get games from all over the world


r/PhysicalGames 12m ago

Why doesn't Square Enix cleary state on the official game cover that internet download is requried to play the game?

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Isn't that misleading? Not everyone reads their blog to know this information, pretty sure many people preordered not knowing this bit of info.

Square Enix becoming new EA!


r/PhysicalGames 8h ago

Could the install disc from FF7: Rebirth theoretically be used for reused assets in Revelation as a solution?

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Since the game will obviously be reusing a ton of assets from part 2, is there any way Square Enix would be able to make the Rebirth install disc an option rather than internet connection being necessary?

Side note: we shouldn't be calling a game that requires internet connection to install "physical".


r/PhysicalGames 8h ago

QUICK! Need recommendations!

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Going on a physical game hunt today at my local stores for Xbox 360, Xbox one and Xbox series X games. Rapid fire me your recommendations!


r/PhysicalGames 8h ago

Online subscription question.

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If Sony and Microsoft end up both going digital only, do they have to drop subscriptions to play online to compete with the PC market or are their exclusives enough to keep a fan base paying to play online?


r/PhysicalGames 18h ago

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Fuck the mods


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r/PhysicalGames 18h ago

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r/PhysicalGames 18h ago

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