Is this the last generation of physical media, or do you think we'll get one more?
Nintendo will never drop physical
PC will be the final modern platform still occasionally getting physical game releases
>>680415407physical media is already dead outside nintendoyou can't actually play games off a disc on current gen consoles
>>680417727Why not?
>>680418809Optical drives will always be slower than hard discs or SSDs. It sucks but load times would be absolutely AIDS if you had to load modern games off a disc.
>>680418809The consoles just download the game to the SSD from a verification code on the discs. The discs only have like a few hundred MB.
>>680419036But the console still copies the info from the disc without any online connection
>>680419249except for the day one patch every game has, of course
>>680419127>>680419296You can still play the game from beginning to end without any patchAnd if you're genuinely worried about that you can even check https://www.doesitplay.org/ to make sure you aren't getting scammed
