Digital gaming is the major reason why PC gaming has flourished in the last 10-15 years. Indie developers are able to make interesting games (or not as interesting)....and sell them on digital platforms. This rarely ever happened before Steam and other platforms came to be.
Console less so....but most indie/small/medium developers and publishers exist because of digital sales.
Disc rot is becoming more serious, it seems to be inevitable on most discs.
Happened to several of my "The Office" discs, and my Ghibli collection, both are DVDs.
However rot seems to affect UMDs, Blu-Rays, and CDs as well, be careful. This is a serious point against physical media.
However cartridges should all last like 100+ years assuming they aren't treated poorly by ANY of their owners.
Originally posted by KazenjiI took really good care of my brand new, plastic-wrapped (at the time) Ghibli collection that I hardly ever actually watched and it still succumbed to Disc Rot. The Office DVD's were kept in a nice, cool place, with Season 7 barely being touched.
Same sorta deal with Discs too, Depends on how you look after them.
Disc rot is a natural occurence of the chemicals in the disc being exposed to Oxygen among other things, and all discs will rot sooner or later.
Originally posted by Nemesis XOh no doubt, but check them in another 20 years and see how they work, if you still have them.
I've had games like Dead Rising since 2006. Not to mention all the used PS1/2 discs I've found that still work to this very day.
Some might expire quicker, others might take a century, but stuff like for example UMD's, LaserDiscs, etc, none of those will work 100-130 years from now.
Originally posted by Jmanghan
Oh no doubt, but check them in another 20 years and see how they work, if you still have them.Some might expire quicker, others might take a century, but stuff like for example UMD's, LaserDiscs, etc, none of those will work 100-130 years from now.
https://twitter.com/flatpanels/status/1544365500318199809?s=21&t=nYQ84jlW-2v2UIJJvH4QtQ
Better risking disc rot than putting up with that.
This is a me problem buuut... phones are now required to log into the older PS stores: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2022/05/10/ps3-ps-vita-account-creation-disabled/
Let's be generous and say that only 20,000 people in the world where phones are readily available don't actually use phones and still use their PS3, PSP, and PS Vita.
You can't access your purchased games.