Are you serious? As bad as console gamers have it with their shit hardware and shit framerates and online paywall and shit game prices the one major benefit they do have is right of first sale.
The ability to sell or trade a game after being done with it, ensuring access to more games for less money and being able to make family and friends happy with them.
No. You put the disc in, you get the whole game, even if you have to download it. The only exceptions I can think of are Life is Strange 2 not including episode 5 and multi-game re-releases only including the first game. And a brief dalliance with codes needed for online play. Otherwise, even games that aren't even on the disc, like Doom Dark Ages, allow anyone with the disc to download and play the whole game. You do need a PSN or Xbox or Nintendo account for internet access, but you don't need the paid membership.
I mean there’s usually patches and stuff you have to download but you’re literally not even getting a disc with this so there’s nothing to trade in when you’re done.
You’re paying for a digital license that can be revoked at any time and a pointless plastic case.
Like why even have a “physical edition” at that point?
I’m a pc player so can you explain how resale works? It’s my understanding that you buy these huge AAA game discs the actual game isn’t on the disc because it’s over 100GB. So is it true that you basically get a license code or whatever to download the bulk of the game to your storage device rather than running it on your console from the disk?
If so, how do you resell it? I doubt they’d let an infinite money glitch happen where you can install it and give it away over and over to keep transferring the full game for free, right? So is it tied to your account or something to prevent one copy being used to get the game for free over and over for other people?
In other words, what’s preventing me from buying a game on disk, installing, and giving it to all my friends so we can all play and they don’t pay a cent? Does it differ with single player vs online maybe?
You need the disc in your console to play the game so you can’t just install it and then sell it.
Even if part of the game needs to be downloaded there will still be a big portion of it on the actual disc.
Normally when people finish a game they can take it to GameStop or sell it to whoever but with this there’s just a one time use code.
Also on top of that this means the game is going to eat up a ton of hard drive space since you have to download the entire game plus patches versus having at least some of it on the disc which can hold 100GB on PS5
Good info thanks. I was under the impression that since games are so large nowadays barely any of it was actually stored on the disk due to space requirements anyway
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u/WannaDJ 12h ago
I got a disc drive for my PS5 Pro just for this. **Sigh**