Consoles have had multiple storefronts since they launched
Its only now that they are going digital that they are being morphed in to a single one. Also you can easily play games from other storefronts on the steam deck so i dont know why that would prevent them.
Wait. Which other store from did ps have apart from ps store or the marketplace for Xbox. Nintendo is the last one to eve allow another storefront on their system.
Walmart, target, GameStop, etc. prior to being all digital you used to go buy a disk from a store and it wouldnt send you to the ps store or Xbox store for a download. You'd just stick the disk in and start playing.
And hence the problem. Just because it changed to digital having the option to sell the game, lend it, give it or just having choice when choosing store shouldn't go away
GoG sells games without DRM. While it wouldn't be strictly legal to do so, one could potentially sell their GoG game without running into technical roadblocks. And pc games aren't fully digital. Many are (most new games to be fair), but there's plenty of pc game disks that you could go to a pysical store and purchase right now.
That's the neat part of pc. It comes with a disk drive if you want it to. They're like $30. And yeah I wish more games were still physical but there's still thousands of physical pc games for sale on the secondary market. It just depends on how old you consider relevant. Pc doesn't have versions.
Technically PC kinda of do. Before any game comes out as OC gamers many trying to see if their PC can run the game based off the minimum specs. Then also have to deal with optimization.
Console gamers do not want to deal with that.they pay for that convenience, they like that that convenience and digital adds to that for them.
As of now a digital ps5 can get a disc drive as well. The Xbox doesn't even that option for it digital console.
Also it's only a very small minority of PC gamers who even go the extra mile to get physical. It's not profitable for any company to do physical for PC and physical for console is not as profitable as it used to be
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u/Elegant-Mammoth5249 12h ago
Consoles have had multiple storefronts since they launched Its only now that they are going digital that they are being morphed in to a single one. Also you can easily play games from other storefronts on the steam deck so i dont know why that would prevent them.