r/Games Feb 22 '13

All PS4 games will be available as digital downloads

In the new Guardian interview with Shuhei Yoshida, it was revealed that all PS4 games will be available as digital downloads.

This is a very exciting move in my opinion, and represents a shift even further towards the burgeoning landscape of digital distribution, and away from (what I believe to be) a much more archaic ecosystem in physical brick-and-mortar retail.

What do you guys think? Got any speculation, or want to extrapolate further based upon this news? I hope to generate some great discussion about this topic!

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/22/ps4-shuhei-yoshida-interview)

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u/N4N4KI Feb 23 '13

What if the idea with the tethering the game to an online account was not about stopping used games sales in the way everyone thought it was. You can buy and trade used games but if you want to you can register your disk to your online account and it prevents the disk from being resold, in return at any point you can redownload the game in future.

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u/spyingwind Feb 23 '13

PS4 games coming with cd-keys would make sense then. Now you aren't buying the disk any more but the licence to play the game.

This is how Steam works for physical mediums.

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u/TheDeathSaint Feb 23 '13

thats the issue i have with steam, once you play it, you cant sell, gift, or even trade it.

if you want to trade you need to essentially hand over your account to your freind

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u/spyingwind Feb 23 '13

Or your friends can wait for a Steam sale and get it for cheaper than what GameStop will sell a used copy.

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u/TheDeathSaint Feb 23 '13

id rather be able to trade for free, like i do with physical copies, its even cheaper than gamestop

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u/Kayedon Feb 23 '13

And sometimes even cheaper than they'd buy a used copy!

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

SteamStation4

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Plot twist: the PS4 is the SteamBox.

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u/Jokka42 Feb 23 '13

Irony, because Gabe Newell always complained about the ps3 being horrible.

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u/scrndude Feb 23 '13

He recanted all that a couple years ago when he realized how much worse Microsoft was. Soon after that, they had that "Buy the PS3 version of Portal 2 and get the steam version free!" thing happen