Digital Distribution Is Far Better Than A Disk

No thanks, Blu-ray Disc FTW! 8) Also hard drives do make noise along with CD drives. X360PS3AMD05

[QUOTE="Burning-Sludge"]

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

At least make it a standard for handhelds.Hexagon_777

Heck No!! That may be good enough for the PSP, but it reduce handheld games to glorified flash games on systems people actually play.

I want Nintendo and Sony to pursue full digital distribution for their handheld consoles. They are meant to be portable but carrying three, four, five, or however many game cases around with you simply isn't. It defeats the whole purpose of portable gaming. The cases get damaged in the process as well. Digital distribution and handheld console gaming were meant to be.

[QUOTE="Burning-Sludge"]

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

At least make it a standard for handhelds.Hexagon_777

Heck No!! That may be good enough for the PSP, but it reduce handheld games to glorified flash games on systems people actually play.

I want Nintendo and Sony to pursue full digital distribution for their handheld consoles. They are meant to be portable but carrying three, four, five, or however many game cases around with you simply isn't. It defeats the whole purpose of portable gaming. The cases get damaged in the process as well. Digital distribution and handheld console gaming were meant to be.

Are we also ment to loose our games if the Handheld console breaks? Because that is what would happen. Could a console that size even hold a lot of gams or would be a game limit? Could something the size of a DS hold all of my 76 DS games or would they be trappend in a faraway server?

[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]No thanks, Blu-ray Disc FTW! 8) Also hard drives do make noise along with CD drives. imprezawrx500

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

[QUOTE="Burning-Sludge"]

Heck No!! That may be good enough for the PSP, but it reduce handheld games to glorified flash games on systems people actually play.Burning-Sludge

I want Nintendo and Sony to pursue full digital distribution for their handheld consoles. They are meant to be portable but carrying three, four, five, or however many game cases around with you simply isn't. It defeats the whole purpose of portable gaming. The cases get damaged in the process as well. Digital distribution and handheld console gaming were meant to be.

Are we also ment to lose our games if the handheld console breaks? Because that is what would happen. Could a console that size even hold a lot of games or would be a game limit? Could something the size of a DS hold all of my 76 DS games or would they be trappend in a faraway server?

Any service worth its money will have a solution to the first problem you mentioned. That's an absolute given. Regarding the latter point, perhaps you can install and uninstall games as you please for HDD space purposes. Having ten games installed on your handheld console is still better than carrying five game cases around with you.

[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"][QUOTE="HuusAsking"]Similarly, there's an appeal to getting rid of clutter, especially for someone without a lot of space. There's also the rising cost of gas (to drive to brick-and-mortar stores) to consider.Burning-Sludge

No Retail is not bad for developers because games are openly advertised while they are in stores just by being there. I like having the case because it protects the disk and makes it easier to put it up safely with the instruction booklet and allows you to display it. You may hate cases but I refuse to buy games without them.

My games feels pretty safe on a HDD...

[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"][QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]No thanks, Blu-ray Disc FTW! 8) Also hard drives do make noise along with CD drives. Javy03

-Can't be sold later down the road if it sucks, which is often the case.

-DRM is lame. We know when things go 100% digital, that the companies are gonna slap the cuffs on us.

-Steam has got it right, but I still buy the boxed product if it's available. Steam didn't get it right in the beginning.

-Digital Distribution shouldn't be as costly as a retail product, or even more in some cases. That's ridiculous. Steam has had some overpriced releases, but luckily, they balance it out with sales.

I'll take retail. And retail keeps more jobs, too.

BioShockOwnz

5th reply of this behemoth thread had it almost exactly right (I'd also add the rapid rise in internet caps and the increasing size of games, but it would be the most minor point). I bet the next 500 posts are all gonna agree as well.... amirite???

Digital distribution is fine ... until you go to borrow a game from a mate and check it out, or want to lend one out, and realise you can't. And you can't trade them in. Very convenient to just have all the games on one hard disk though. No more changing disks. I'll take a mix of both personally.

Digital distribution is fine ... until you go to borrow a game from a mate and check it out, or want to lend one out, and realise you can't. And you can't trade them in. Very convenient to just have all the games on one hard disk though. No more changing disks. I'll take a mix of both personally.

RocKtheCasbaH

[QUOTE="RocKtheCasbaH"]

Digital distribution is fine ... until you go to borrow a game from a mate and check it out, or want to lend one out, and realise you can't. And you can't trade them in. Very convenient to just have all the games on one hard disk though. No more changing disks. I'll take a mix of both personally.

HuusAsking

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="HuusAsking"]They're available offline once they're downloaded, last I checked. That's how Arcade compilations can work--they can be played so long as either the download account is signed on (not necessarily to Live) or the compilation disc is inserted.mudman91878

Stop using Xbox Live as your basis for DD. If DD took over it would be NOTHING like Xbox Live. It would be like Steam or very similar which means you'd have access to your games even w/o internet connection.

...and NOBODY come in here and say you have to be connected to the internet to play steam games.....it's called offline mode.

[QUOTE="mudman91878"]

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"] Incorrect. At least with Xbox Live anyways. My internet was off last week and most of my Arcade downloads and DLC was unavailable. Most of my Arcade title went from full games to trial and my DLC was also unavailable. I did however have access to maybe one or two titles that were downoaded, but most weren't.godzillavskong

Stop using Xbox Live as your basis for DD. If DD took over it would be NOTHING like Xbox Live. It would be like Steam or very similar which means you'd have access to your games even w/o internet connection.

...and NOBODY come in here and say you have to be connected to the internet to play steam games.....it's called offline mode.

[QUOTE="HuusAsking"][QUOTE="RocKtheCasbaH"]

Digital distribution is fine ... until you go to borrow a game from a mate and check it out, or want to lend one out, and realise you can't. And you can't trade them in. Very convenient to just have all the games on one hard disk though. No more changing disks. I'll take a mix of both personally.

imprezawrx500

If they can rent games out to you, why would they let you buy them?

[QUOTE="blingchu55"][QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"]

Good thing with steam I can make a bakup and bring it anywhere.

Bebi_vegeta

Good thing it doesn't require a credit card to buy a steam game... dude get with the program.

[QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"]

[QUOTE="blingchu55"] good thing everyone has credit cardsblingchu55

Good thing it doesn't require a credit card to buy a steam game... dude get with the program.

There are a few payment options with Steam, some that don't require credit/debit cards.

Digital Distribution Is Far Better Than A DiskIndigoSunrise

[QUOTE="blingchu55"][QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"]

Good thing it doesn't require a credit card to buy a steam game... dude get with the program.

XaosII

There are a few payment options with Steam, some that don't require credit/debit cards.