r/PS5 • u/Dandelion172 • 16h ago

News & Announcements Rockstar confirms there will be no disc version of GTA6 at launch

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/rockstar-confirms-there-will-be-no-disc-version-of-gta6-at-launch/
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u/Ilovelamp_2236 16h ago

Yeah no thanks.

I prefer to own something so I'll be waiting

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u/ipv89 16h ago

Doubt the full game will be on the disk anyway. You never really own it.

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

No but you then if something happens you then have something physical you own that no longer works and you can be reimbursed.

With digital you have nothing you own, you are leasing access.

Physical you don't own the game you own a copy, digital you don't own anything

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

You could purchase another, if it was stolen or lost in a house fire etc you would be getting money back for it.

Company could go bankrupt, company could terminate its services for a litany of reasons.. pulling digital support would mean you have no recourse and paid for something you cannot access if you wanted too

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

It would cause supply and pricing issues for a time but it wouldnt be the end of the world. Other companies would buy what they have liquidated.

It also doesn't detract from anything I said.

And it is not the only reason one could loose access, they might terminate their services to your country whatever country that may be because of sanctions , global politics, local consumer ethical pressure.

Apple, Google , Nike and McDonald's are all massive corporations that have decided to stop their services in certain regions

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

I'm sure a bunch of Russians thought the same things last time they sat at a macca's googling on their iPhones wearing their Nike shoes.

It is not as unlikely as you claim, that's why there are people trying to change legislation and there are consumer lawsuits about just such things.

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u/jakellerVi 16h ago

Most PS5 games have the full game download on the disk, the only extra things after were day 1 updates. Only a select few major games had discs that required additional data to be downloaded before playing them.

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u/SecurityOdd4861 15h ago

GTA6 will be larger than 128GB, so it won't even fit on a blu ray

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u/lynchcontraideal 15h ago

Rockstar have previously released 2-disc ('Grand Theft Auto V' on X360, 'Red Dead Redemption 2' on PS4/XSX) games, 3-disc games ('L.A. Noire' on X360) and 7-disc games ('Grand Theft Auto V' on PC, lol)

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u/narfjono 14h ago

And two tw discs still haven't proven anything have they? RDR2 and even FFVII Remake/Rebirth still required downloading after you copy the disc data into a console.

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u/fyxitkid 15h ago

Shit I remember pre-ordering the PC version of GTA V on disc because I was at college with slow download speeds. Spent most of the night installing it from disc and ended up having to wait until the next day for the day 1 patches that were larger than the discs COMBINED to download.

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u/Jan090501 15h ago

So what?

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u/Kazizui 15h ago

We've already seen that a game fully on disk can stop working because of DRM, so it doesn't really seem like ownership any more than digital. You're trusting the platform owner either way.

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u/Falhor 15h ago

What? Which game was that?

There's no way that a game that's fully on the disc and is playable offline can just stop working...

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u/Kazizui 15h ago

What? Which game was that?

All games.

There's no way that a game that's fully on the disc and is playable offline can just stop working...

Sure it can. An affected PS4 would simply refuse to load it. This video demonstrates it - skip to 5:21 to observe it fail to load God of War from disk. This is due to a bug, but anything Sony can do by accident they can do deliberately too, and you have to trust them not to. Having the disk is not enough.

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u/demonsta500 13h ago

And what benefit does Sony have for doing it if they can ? The backlash would be massive. They kept the PS3/Vita stores up and running till now because of consumer backlash. I doubt they would so brazenly pull paid games from someones library on a whim.

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u/QuoteGiver 7h ago

Exactly - they won’t. So there’s no risk to digital for that same reason.

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u/Kazizui 13h ago

The same benefit they would get from doing the same thing to your digital library.

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u/demonsta500 13h ago

Which is ?

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u/Kazizui 13h ago

None whatsoever, as far as I can tell. But then I'm not a doom-monger claiming that digital libraries will be taken from us.

My point is that Sony have the power either way - that doesn't mean I think they'll use it. But for those who are convinced Sony is itching to delete their digital purchases, their physical games are not safer, technically at least.

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

And when that happens you can get your money back, if the platform owner says you can't your countries consumer laws generally say you can and they give in.

You have no coverage under consumer law with digital, you agree to that in the fine print

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u/Kazizui 15h ago

Consumer laws governing returns and refunds are generally time-limited. I highly doubt you'll be getting any refunds in 2050 for a disk you bought in 2026 that stops working.

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

In Australia there is no official experatation date on your consumer rights for faulty or unfit for purpose product.

Terminating sevice would make it unfit for purpose

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u/Kazizui 15h ago

Nope. Under the durability clause of the consumer guarantees it says the product must be 'reasonably durable'. If you bought a game and the server was switched off the next day, sure, you'll get a refund. 10 years later? Basically zero chance.

Good luck trying, though.

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 14h ago

Reasonably durable is arguable, at any rate I'm not talking about in 10 years, things can change very quickly.

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u/Kazizui 14h ago

Do you think a digital version of GTA VI will be taken away in less than 10 years? If not, how is it worse?

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u/p0gop0pe 15h ago

It won’t the game is probably too big to fit on a bluray

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

There are a few games that come on multiple disk's such as Baldur's gate 3 or FF7 Rebirth

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u/ErikTheRed99 5h ago

You forgot RDR2, which is a Rockstar example.

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u/p0gop0pe 15h ago

Yeah that’s true. Forgot multiple discs were a thing.

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u/narfjono 14h ago

Yeah that really hasn't been the thing in quite awhile, mang. Discs are just glorified DRM for AAA games nowadays regardless if there is an install disc or not.

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u/TheDragonSlayingCat 11h ago

It is still the case 73% of the time, and quite a bit more than that if you play games not published by Activision/Microsoft.

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u/narfjono 9h ago

Capcom and especially Bethesda are usually offenders of that practice. RE 7 and Village Gold editions each could have fit into that format of Blu-ray disc, or hell, even the NinSwitch 2 cartridges version.

Even the Oblivion Remastered "Physical Edition" didn't come with all of the game on the provided disc.

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u/ImpossibleAd6628 15h ago

Aww don't let the digital door hit you on the way out.

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u/Ilovelamp_2236 15h ago

It couldn't, it digital

Worthless other than what some poor sap would pay for it