I swear, they looked about the size of a ream of paper (OK I exaggerate but not by much!) that you then had to store somewhere (I guess packaging waste was an irrelevance then).įortunately, things calmed down with the move to CD. Then the advent of the 16-bit era and getting a couple of discs in a huge box. I remember when games used to come in double-sized cassette boxes for full priced games (£8-£10 a pop) and single cassette boxes for Codemasters and the other budget games (£1.99 a pop). The thing is, I’m really not that fussed about the physical copy. Last game I bought a physical copy of? As I haven’t owned a console since the Wii/PlayStation 2 and have PC gamed ever since, that is actually a really tough question to answer! Now I know I bought Bioshock because It came in a nice tin – so that was what? 2007? I know I have either Grid or Grid: Autosport as a hard copy, so that’s 2008 or 2014 (I’m not going to the loft to check) so it’s been at least seven years, maybe 13. Most limited editions are full of uninteresting tat that just clogs up your home, like that recent Monkey Island one that Limited Run Games did.
I only buy limited editions if there’s something interesting in them, like a CD soundtrack not otherwise available. I’m an avid retrogamer and it worries me that I might not be able to go back to these games in 20-30 years time, like I do with my NES or Mega Drive games. The decline of physical copies is quite worrying to me, especially as it coincides with it becoming harder to preserve games. I don’t mind buying from GOG.com as they offer offline installers, and then it’s just down to me to back them up to multiple locations and never need worry about the store going down. This is entirely preference based, as I worry about the storage dying in 10 years and the digital store no longer existing to redownload from. I buy pretty much all my console games physically – I only go digital when it’s very clear that the game will never come out physically. The collection has been available digitally for quite a while. I bought it physically because that’s how I prefer my games. Last physical game I bought was Doom: The Classics Collection on Switch, though it’s a pre-order so it’ll be a while till it arrives.
I appreciate I am in an ever-reducing minority, but it will be a sad day for me when I can’t buy physical any longer. OK, it’s a mild pain to have to get up to swap disks out occasionally, but over the lifetime of my PlayStation 4, I saved many hundreds of pounds by buying and reselling physical disks.
However, for short-ish single-player games, I find it crazy that people are abandoning physical disks for digital options. If there’s a game I know I will play long term, then I would buy it digitally, e.g.
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