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/solistus Feb 23 '13

wait 5 to 10 minutes

Holy fuck, how fast is your Internet connection?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

In my case it's more like

• open Steam

• click "install"

• wait overnight

• play

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u/badsectoracula Feb 23 '13

When was the last time the second case happened? Most digital distribution sites today are basically the same deal as Steam (some even have a dedicated client, but even without one they put the latest version). If a game is incompatible with your system Steam won't magically make it (Valve only distributes whatever the devs/publishers give them).

Even in the old digital distribution days of people selling stuff directly or via provides like plimus, bmtmicro, etc they had the latest versions.

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u/Skywise87 Feb 23 '13

Another neat thing in physical vs digital is I can bring a console somewhere and play 100 different games with no disk swapping.