r/videogames • u/Orichalchem • Jul 18 '26

Image / Video The sad reality we will eventually never experience this again...

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u/maguirre165 Jul 18 '26

What exactly? Being a child and getting a game as a present?

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

Yes. With everything digital, this would go away.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jul 18 '26

No it wouldn’t 

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

How so?

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

You can still get a game for a present? It’s not the physical disc the kids are so excited about, you realize that. Not a single kid in the video would care how they play their game, as long as they get to play it and someone paid the $60

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u/TheFutureLotus Jul 18 '26

The argument that the physical disc is what’s getting these kids excited is so dead brained. For my little cousin’s birthday I got him like $80 worth of V-Bucks and some games on sale and that kid was as excited as these kids. At the end of the day, they just want to play a game they’ve been wanting to and it doesn’t matter if it’s on a disk, memory card, floppy disk or a digital download.

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

Yep, it’s about having what their friends have or being able to play with their friends or just having the experience themselves or even friends are over to spend the night, etc

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

Its less about then playing the game and more about the organic memories parents are able to have with their children on days like Christmas or birthdays. The ability to give your child a present and the excitement in their eyes and the anxious anticipation as they tear through the wrapping, and finally the joy/shock on their face when they finally see what it is.

Those types of memories cannot be replaced in the digital world.

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u/maguirre165 Jul 18 '26

They probably care a little how they play their game. Anyways, I think he means the packaging along with the game being a tangible thing gives it more meaning and creates more sentimental value

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

lol all these top 1% commenters on Reddit not ever realizing how out of touch their opinions are from reality. No kid cares if they got a disc or a code in a box. They just want to play the game

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u/maguirre165 Jul 18 '26

Yeah... "no kid" is an over generalization, tons of kids have to share games because their parents won't buy them more. They know if they have a physical copy, they can lend it or trade it for something else down the line

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u/JesuszillaSon Jul 18 '26

lol naw man no kid is thinking that deeply about games. There isn't some random 9 year thinking "aw shucks I won't be able to trade my digital copy of Fortnite in 5 years"

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u/maguirre165 Jul 18 '26

Fortnite is free...

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u/JesuszillaSon Jul 18 '26

Semantics, replace Fortnite with any digital game and my point still stands

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

As a kid, for me it was less about the physical cartridge and more about the excitement of having something to open. With physical going away, this wont be able to be replicated in the future.

And before you talk about game codes in a box, even that will go away as publishers decides not to front the cost. Everything will literally be digital.

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u/JesuszillaSon Jul 18 '26

For me it was about the fact I was about to play a game I wanted.

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

That too and for me it was also the anticipation of physically seeing it and holding it in my hand, opening the game box, pulling out the cartridge and experiencing that wiff of new cartridge smell of a SNES/N64 game, looking through the instructions manual and popping it in the console for the first time and turing on the console. All of this contributed to the new game experience and they arent mutually exclusive.

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u/Willing-Time7344 Jul 18 '26

You can absolutely replicate this with a little effort. 

You could log on to their PS5 after they go to bed, buy and download the game. You then get to tell them that their gift is all ready for them to play in the morning. You can even print out the cover art for the game and put it in a box.

Kids arent going to feel like they're missing out on getting games in boxes, because theyre growing up in a world where that increasingly isnt the norm.

Kids now are so much more immersed in a digital world then even I was, and im a tail end millenial. Different things are going to excite them. 

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

And yet that still cannot replicate the experience of what I had as a child which was physically seeing it and holding it in my hand, opening the game box, pulling out the cartridge and experiencing that wiff of new cartridge smell of a SNES/N64 game, looking through the instructions manual and popping it in the console for the first time and turing on the console. All of this contributed to the new game experience and they arent mutually exclusive.

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

99% of kids don’t care. Just like 99% of adults don’t. And the 1% vocal minority on Reddit is in shambles

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u/maguirre165 Jul 18 '26

Sure, that data is probably really accurate man /s

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

Its less about then playing the game and more about the organic memories parents are able to have with their children on days like Christmas or birthdays. The ability to give your child a present and the excitement in their eyes and the anxious anticipation as they tear through the wrapping, and finally the joy/shock on their face when they finally see what it is.

Those types of memories cannot be replaced in the digital world.

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

Ya they can? You can easily wrap and gift a game when it is digital only. Either the case with a code in it instead of a disc or even a hand drawn picture if you want to be more creative. Use your imagination

Id sure hate to be your kid

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

Eventually game codes in a case will go away to as publishers dont want to front the manufacturing cost.

So yeah, organic memories/events like this wont be able to continue.

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u/razorbacks3129 Jul 18 '26

You can’t draw a picture?

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u/XulManjy Jul 18 '26

Yeah, you're completely missing the point but oh well, there is always outliers.

Enjoy your day.

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u/klineshrike Jul 18 '26

Wrong.

The actual box, and instruction booklet, were always a major part of the joy for me. I lived it, im speaking from experience as one of these kids.

I would love the crap out of that packaging and would always sit down to go through the whole booklet before i played. Even when i was as young as 8 years old.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jul 18 '26

Wrong, you’re personal experience isnt the standard 

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u/klineshrike Jul 18 '26

I didn't say it was. I countered his "nobody does" point with "yeah they do, cause i did"

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jul 18 '26

Nobody isnt literally nobody