Comment on Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I do have an optical drive in my PC, for Blu Rays and music CDs. The thing I was calling out was, “they want to have you buy it over and over again until the end of time,” which isn’t really a thing on PC. Sure, there are remasters and such, but the copy you bought 20 years ago largely still works on your new PC.

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  • cuzit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While it’s (probably) not the case for Valve, I think it’s pretty clear that Microsoft’s end goal is endless subscription fees and you owning nothing. And there’s a good chance of them succeeding at that as long as the primary OS for PC gaming is Windows.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Game Pass is already plateauing in subscriptions. I’m sure that while it’s far fewer subscribers than they thought they’d have, they’ll be happy to keep making money this way for some time, but it’s not going to turn in to the primary way people play games.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But that game disk you bought 20 years ago won’t contribute to today’s growing PC market. Even then, I don’t think the “it” in the line refers to remasters but “new” or “first party” in the views of the publishers.

    I would understand that original as, “But the publishers don’t want you to resell games. They want to have you buy games from their first party sales channel over and over again until the end of time.”

    Maybe I misinterpret?

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m struggling with your English a bit, but basically yes.

      “But the publishers don’t want you to resell games. They want to have you buy games from their first party sales channel over and over again until the end of time.”

      This is a problem that doesn’t really exist on PC due to forward compatibility and competing marketplaces. That forward compatibility has now been easily observed for decades by people who’ve been slowly losing the advantages that consoles used to offer.

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      • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I disagree. DRM breaks “forward compatibility” especially with online auth, and Steam dominates PC game sales. Not to mention some publishers avoid releasing on Steam but on their own platforms. PC gamers lost the ability to resell games long before the console gamers did. Still, I digress.

        None of these helps nor proves PC gaming market grows and cause console’s to shrink.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They could sell usb drives…

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• ManicMambo@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How about an external hard drive for my GOG games, does it count?

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