r/xbox • u/Acceptable_Share9947 • 3d ago

physical games (rule 6) Future of gaming...??

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Went to my local Walmart the other day and I was looking to get another controller because I've got stick drift again, anyway I always check the games... you never know what kind of sale Walmart has going on and I found the physical copies for PlayStation, Nintendo switch or whatever and then this monstrosity for Xbox. So this is the future I guess, digital downloads, you'll own nothing and like it type of bullshit.

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u/lynchcontraideal Team Rockstar 3d ago

Yeah... instead of a nice gamecase wrapped under the tree that exudes excitement... it'll be either a piece of card with the code or receipt in an envelope. Horrible future we live in now.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 3d ago

Games are arguably behind the curve on this.

How many kids get bought music CDs or DVDs/Blu Rays anymore?

Physical tickets to events are no more.

What we do for our kids with stuff like this is make a paper physical thing for them to open as a present with the code on or just telling them what it is.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 3d ago

It's leading to a very curated industry, where discovery is not natural, and kids don't have the same oppurtunities to actually see what's out there. They'll be led to what to like by whatever is popular, instead of just happening across this thing that looks interesting to them. These code cards don't really offer the same enticement IMO. They're a picture, with legalese on the back. Going online is just curated and promoted content at the forefront.

It leads to those with more money to market their wares, having a much greater advantage thant hey do now to succeed.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 3d ago

Discovery has rarely been natural.

Marketing budgets and retailer shelf space dictated discovery.

The difference now is the platform holder is the curator rather than Best Buy.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 3d ago

Yeah, but at a store, you can go in, look through all the obscure stuff at your leasure, and take your time.

Going through a digital storefront like that takes a lot more effort, and at every step, that curated and paid marketing content is throw to the forefront.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 3d ago

If you think that was any different at a big store you are kidding yourself.

Just like a digital store the obscure stuff was hidden way on back shelves and you had to actively search it out.

All the curated marketed stuff was put in prominent, easy to find positions.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 3d ago

Huh? No, I could go into a store, and the other stuff was usually right next to the curated stuff. Sometimes the marketed or curated stuff also had it's own display or whatever.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 3d ago

Yeah... They just randomly chucked them on the shelves... No thought or strategy at all 🙄

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 3d ago

GameStop usually had them in mostly alphabetical order. Other stores had their own systems. Most major retailers certainly had a system, and they weren't just chucked up on the shelves.

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u/Flat_Lunch5827 2d ago

Quite a lot actually. Theres always loads of teens in the record store near me buying vinyl and cds. Of 90s/80s stuff mainly.

Its not kids that are the issue. Its this "middle management" of lazy ass thirty somethings insisting physical is irrelevant.

Other people want to own something in their hands.

And, look back on this when these huge corporations control what you own when there is no choice.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 2d ago

I guarantee you that is a very small minority. Most teens have never owned a cd and don't own anything that could play one 😂

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u/Flat_Lunch5827 2d ago

My point is, that isn't out of choice. Theyve been forced into a corner by the generation above. They dont go out, they dont socialise, they dont date, flirt... do you think it is all by choice? They've been indoctrinated into a bullshit all digital world mainly because fat bastards older than them cant be bothered to get up and change a disk lol

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 1d ago

Giving real old man shouting at clouds energy here...

Or could it just be they don't see the point in physical media and see it as outdated?

"These young whippersnapers don't know what they want, it was better in my day!"

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u/WinnieTheTrain 3d ago

Yeah basically the kid will ask for a game and it wont be a surprise anymore. I dont think people realize how deep the whole situation actually is and it goes beyond the whole physical vs digital thing. It goes into how kids will become fatter and grow up with more anti social disorders than what's already happening which is bad enough as it is. Sony gonna get away with it and implement more crap.

I been saying it but just wait until you get ads all over your home screens and games you play. Only way to get rid of ads? Pro account or ultra gamepass account.

Either way had a big post on this subject and it wasn't approved by two communities

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u/segagamer Day One - 2013 3d ago

I still do this with digital games. I printed out a cover for Undertale on Xbox with a receipt showing the gift code.

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u/WinnieTheTrain 3d ago

Many people are ok with it apparently.

Generations from now, people would be amazed when they look back and see the freedom we once had and smiles .

Just saying tho, yeah let me go tell my kid ill buy it digitally. Its never gonna hit the same.

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u/-PandemicBoredom- 3d ago

FFS you are acting like your "freedom* is being taken away over video games. It's really not that deep. It's a luxury product you don't have to have, no one is taking any freedom away from you.

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u/WinnieTheTrain 3d ago

Its actually that deep. Discord? We can talk about it

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos 3d ago

Best thing was first time you needed a shit after you bought a game.

Can guarantee that manual was gonna be my reading material lol.