That is why you charge them whatever it would takes. I’m not talking about a mass market release for everyone. We are talking about limited edition collector shit for people that NEED physical copies. Discs with nothing on them would still be the primary physical release.
I don’t think that would work. One, the number of people who’d be willing to pay $100+ for an SSD with a game on it would be miniscule, and two, the game gets a day one patch and now your SSD is just as obsolete as the optical disc, before the game is even out.
Physical media is my middle name but recently I haven’t bought any games that way, 1 it’s hard to find unless you got to Gamestop. My local store’s game selection is slim pickings now. 2. There’s too many games coming out. 3. Digital is way too convenient. 4. Game Pass saves me money. For me it ain’t about the disc it’s about the case for the shelf to flex.
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Is it the one where he pours bleach into a wine glass at the end and says “cheers” because yeah that absolutely has to be fake 
It’s a SSD…the game would just be patched….
I’m physical on Switch, I have a pretty good collection. I enjoy physical media for my Switch because
A. You don’t have to install the games
B. The box art has extra “effort”, like having more art inside the case. I like that.
C. I enjoy those little cartridges for some reason.
On my Xbox I’m all digital.
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I guess I don’t understand the difference from just having it installed on your own SSD then? I was imagining a bespoke read-only drive that was just for that game.
Yeah im mainly physical on Switch cause of those reasons. last game I bought was Pokémon Sword and Shield.
That one yeah, wtf was the bleach thing all about?
Aaron Greenberg never scared to give his honest opinion. First the chat about Bethesda exclusivity and now with Crash mascot. These are just spiteful I feel so bad for them.
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I think we should generally not try to take this stuff personally. I think they can get a bit carried away on the Last Stand podcast, but anytime I see Colin elsewhere he’s generally pretty well rounded. He can definitely be provocative, like how he was with his back and forth tussle with Grubb, while Jeff was hardly innocent in that either.
There’s a 3rd guy in the Last Stand podcast (not Chris) and I don’t know his name, but he generally has the most extreme takes and can even catch him console warring on Twitter and then hiding behind ‘it’s just a joke bro’. I think those two together create a lopsided atmosphere with superfluous takes about Xbox.
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Who is that fanboy that said “sony has to deal with a competitor that has not problems taking sh*t away from it”? It’s it sony handing out cash just to get games off xbox? It’s embarrassing it’s coming from a grown up.
I was dying as well
Jim Sterling has a video on it all.
Pro’s are that dormant IP will come back. Jim mentioned Metal Arms, that was a cool game back in the day. They also own this now, but doubtful it will get a sequel or even remake.
Another pro obviously is that it will all be on Game Pass.
Jim says Xbox is now Disney in the game industry, it doesn’t just want to win, but it wants to rule it. A move this bold threatens a defacto monopoly on the game industry.
“Free” releases like CoD and Diablo are great, but do remember Game Pass is so competitive right now because it’s competing. We’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of times over the years that competition is the only thing that keeps businesses investing in quality and customer friendly products.
They’ve never done anything simply because it’s a good thing to do, they only ever improve under threat. Threat of losing business or threat of regulation. Right now Game Pass is an incredible value, a relatively low investment for customers in exchange for a massive library of titles. But the more MS owns the more it will want to skew that value in its favor, the more of us the customers it has under its belt, the more it will want from us. And the more the shifts, the less threat MS will feel to push harder.
Also says SE and Capcom are definitely likely candidates to be acquired next since MS wants a foothold in Japan.
I don’t think Jim is wrong about competition being a good thing. That’s why I hope Sony comes with a good service.
These people sound so naive. So sony doesn’t want to rule? What was all those moves to hand out cash to keep games off xbox about?
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Yep, Sony badly wanted to wipe Xbox off the map.
Where’s the link to that video? Lmao
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Interesting. I don’t see a lot of his stuff because, quite frankly, I don’t care what Digital Foundry says about game comparisons because unless it’s practically unplayable (and to me a solid 30fps is the furthest thing from unplayable) I’m going to play a game on Xbox if I can because I prefer the controller, OS, features, community, etc. That ends up meaning a lot of what I see from him is just being on random other stuff, and the times I’ve seen him there he’s usually bashing Microsoft pretty hard.
That’s good to know though, thanks for the info.
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I saw it via a Griffin stream, but I found the video itself for ya 
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Hey, I’m just suggesting they offer something for collecting aficionados. They like collecting, let them have their thing. They, in my imagination, would be specially packaged/labeled or whatever.
I don’t own any physical games for any system. Lol