Wouldn't make or break it for me. I haven't had a DVD drive in my PC for years.

Still, if they went full digital they'd need to introduce more market place options. I'm not going to pay MORE for digital via XB/PS stores.

I was forced to do this

My ps4 keeps spitting disks all the time, so my only choice was to go digital

Discs are still an important option for games, and an even more important option for movies (where it actually makes a difference to quality). The disc drive isn't an expensive component anyway.

If it save the platform money and myself when I purchase . Then I say bring it on .

No i like games on disc more than a digital game on my HD. And i can trade in a game on disk for another game.

ONLY if it's done like gog,once you buy the game digitally,it's yours for good. You can store that game in a usb ect and play that game without ever needing a psn/xbox live account to play it.And we all know it probably won't be that way if it's like that.

No. Even if digital games were cheaper I would still probably want a console that supports physical media.

Question: If Sanjeev purchased 5 games from the PSN store, how many games does he own?
Answer: None.

is it cheaper and smaller?

No, next question.

Yes I would if the console had there damn download system in check. Download a 40 gig game on console takes forever, download 40 giga game on steam takes like 2 hours.

I definitely would. I haven't had a disc since Games On Demand launched on the 360 early last gen.

Never.

I would if the price of new digital games dropped by 20%. In saying that, I buy nearly everything digitally. I rarely buy new releases day one unless I really want to play it (e.g. bought Horizon day one, waiting for RE7 to price drop before I buy it). Most of the stuff I buy digitally is discounted one way or another. Plus I love not having to move to switch games :-)

I use blu-ray for movies so no

Only way people will move away from Physical Media is if they lowered the prices on Digital games vs Physical. Also, had sales the way PC gamers get sales. I mean, some games launch at a discounted price out the gate. If they can bring that to Consoles, i think more people would get on board with it. Also, if they implemented a Rental Service, kinda like Redbox or Netflix for Games.. Where you could subscribe digitally and get access to new games that you rent to play.

Not a snowballs chance in hell.

No

Nope, as many comments have already pointed out, it is the option of purchasing the game in any number of ways. Take for instance Amazon Prime, I get brand new releases for up to %20 off, the $100 dollar "gold editions" of games are only 79.99 when I pre-order them through Amazon compared to paying full price for a digital edition, no packaging, no disc, no extra content...maps, statues etc.... So no, all of my games have been hard copies, except as was previously mentioned as well, when you have digital deals you cannot pass.

Heck, at times although I have the physical copy, if the digital edition is cheap enough I will purchase it just because I am lazy!

All digital on PC for 10 years. On XBOX, I buy mostly digital, only getting limited Editions or games I dont want to keep on disc.
If the console is way cheaper, why not.

Yes. Especially if it made the console cheaper.

Yes. Prefer digital.

Nope.

I see no benefit to me as the consumer in regards to having less options.

Some day there won't be a choice. Eventually everything will be digital and not just games. For games, I'll stick to physical as much as possible except for the occasional digital sale.

The storage needed to accomplish this costs FAR more than an optical drive.

Yes. If there's something valuable to fill it's space like a second hdd.

No frickin way

Yes, been digital since ps3 days. Options are always nice. Especially this one.

Waht you are asking us is: would we consider not owning a game ever again? My answer is no. Digital games are games licensed to you. Can be taken away any time for any reason without warning. Also, digital games are a collectors worst nightmare. I collect video games and there is no way in hell I would ever buy a console that does not have games on a physical format.

No. No. No.No.No.

No.

Im very old fashioned, i like to run my finger along my games boxes when im choosing what to play next. I like admiring the cover art too sometimes. I like holding a part of gaming history in my hands. With digital you dont actually own anything.

nope.

Like most people I haven't bought a physical PC game for many many years. But that's because the prices for digital games on PC are very good. Digital games on consoles currently cost far too much, most often more than the physical copy. So until they get in line with PC prices for digital games, then no thanks, I'll keep buying discs for my consoles.

No. Not unless games got considerably cheaper as a result, but judging by current digital console offerings, that won't be the case. Plus, call me old fashioned, but I like to have the item in my hand. Also, why bother? Disc drive cost almost nothing to add to a console, why not give consumers a choice of one or the other instead?

NO!

No. Because unlike pc console can only have one digital shop so MS,sony or Nintendo can increase or decrease the price of game how ever they want. With consle,we have physical copies so if you think the price of a game is too much on psn or xbl you can simply buy it physically

No, I want physical copies of games

My console is disc free now. Digital downloads keep my game collection clean. And it's easier to maintain than having a bunch of disc

I would consider it, but only if the market was fair about it. And looking at the price of gta 5 digital as one example, the market isn't fair to the consumer right now. An almost 4 year old game at full price is ridiculous. And since you can't buy used there is nothing to keep the prices fair. Now if you could trade the digital key or something ( not sure how that would work) that would help.

No

Not until the prices are much lower or my "license" is good for lifetime of devices. Would also need to be able to play offline, I don't do it at homw but when I travel I do because hotel internet general sucks and I don't like to connect to open networks anyway. But I still probably wouldn't want it then, I love my collection of games, I usually only buy games digitally if I didn't want to open a collector's edition or the game was on some flash sale.

No

Nope. Ability to lend, buy used ones and sell my games are crucial to me. Also, the prices on the PSN(I have Vita, PS3 and PS4, never had an Xbox can comment on that) aren't updated to compete with discs almost at all. You can buy used physical Fifa 2016(yes, not the newst one) for 4 pounds but on the PSN it is "only" 22 pounds. There is virtually no incentive to go digital aside from the proverbial "getting tired of getting up to swap discs".

EDIT: Well, with Vita it is actually A LOT chepaer on sales on PSN because physical on Vita are so damn expensive. Persona 4 for 8 pounds digital compared to 20 physical? I'm in!

I love all the people who say they don't buy digital because they think they won't be able to play the digital versions of their games in 5-10 years. Guess what? If Sony/Microsoft cuts off digital services, even if you reinstall your physical games, you won't be able to download patches, so you'll be playing almost all of them in a broken state unlike what you remember, especially big RPGs.

Nope.

No.

Definitely

Look at the iPhone/iPad app store , it works !

( as long as the digital PSN prices go down that is - why pay more for less ???)

Nope

Yeah it's called Switch.

If there's two SKUs (one that has a disc drive, and one without), I'd maybe go with the discless SKU since I've been all digital amidst this entire generation so far.

No no no no no no no no
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
As simple as that.

If the price is right.

No Fucking Way!
if they go full Digital I'll quit current gaming.

All these boasting 'hell no' comments are ignorant if they think this won't happen soon. I own over 50 ps4 games and it would be messy and piss me off if they were stacked on a shelf in my living room. All they need to do is fix the drm issues and digital games will take over the market. It killed cds, it's killing blu ray, and you better believe games are next. I've already gone full digital on games other than collectors editions and plenty of others have as well. Physical media is dying and you better learn to accept it or find a new hobby.

No next question

No, I actually like having some control over the content I bought.

no. if consoles go disc-free, I quit gaming.

Nope.

Yeah sure only IF hard drives are like 100TB and games are as cheap as on Steam with various big deals and sales otherwise HELL NAH. I'm physical media only right now.

Yes already pretty much that way

I'd only say no because of the possibility of losing the game but then again I'd probably never go back and play it by the time that it happens if it does.

already doing it.

Yes, as long as I can permanently maintain the installation files on a storage device of my choosing.

Steam is the only digital service i would trust to last long enough ... console makers have not been great with backward compatibility and i would suspect older systems will not have access to digital content at some point

Overpricing, expensive extra costs for storage, Account ban, no digital trade in, etc. A lot of things need to change first.

Only if it used carts. I will not use a console with no physical option.

Yeah, I would. But I like that my PS4 is a BD player too etc. You'd still get games in boxes, they'd just have download codes. (Like the child of light PS4 collectors edition.)

We've been buying into discless platforms for some time. PC may as well be, and mobile. If I had physical boxes for my entire collection I'd be running out of space. :D

Perhaps.... If the consoles can implement a credit to games returned. Such as you buy and download the game digitally, after a week or so of owning the title you can get a 75% or so refund to your wallet, after a month maybe 50%.

Some sort of return at least.

Gamestop will go out of business.

no, no and just in case you didn't hear me before...NO

No i wont . Dont even think about it.

If digital distribution was way cheaper them I'd be game for it. But there has to be more for the gamer and not as much protection for the companies.

Games are basically rented when we go digital. Would be nice to have a trade in option.

Almost all my games are digital for ps4 and Xbox one, as there's been some great sales over the years. So I don't mind taking on a digital only console.

I'd be down for that. I said years ago that we'd start seeing games as a subscription service like Netflix and those are already starting to pop up. I stopped buying physical copies of movies years ago, physical copies of music probably more than a decade ago. Already I almost never purchase physical copies of games. I just wait for them to go on sale on PSN or Steam. I can understand why some may not like this but if game consoles went 100% digital tomorrow it would have zero impact on me as I'm pretty much 100% digital right now. Less moving parts on the console also equals fewer chances for hardware breakdown.

If gaming goes all digital I'm out.

Nah. Cost of Digital too High and infrastructure is not there to meet the demand both from a user and buyer perspective. Gaming industry will not invest in user infrastructure i.e broad bands, faster speeds it's down to the providers and look how far behind they are in the UK trying to get decent mobile coverage or even broad band to rural areas. Servers from a provider perspective would crash like typical launch day attacks or crashes from new users. In order for digital only to work the industry needs a larger % of the community to have X up and down connection speed and also we need the next evolution in compression technology.

Tried that with the PSP Go, realised I was paying full price for old games still, and no second hand games can be used so sold it. Never looked back. Worst purchase ever.

i would if digitally priced games on console werent so fucking outrageously stupid ! but no way im paying for digital games that are old as hell still at full price when i can get them for pennies used on amazon :/

nope

I think I like Sony's current approach to this. Sony still have a huge stake in physical base media storage, and being that their PlayStation console does more than just play games and also seconds as a MEH/Media Entertainment Hub. I highly doubt Sony would bother. And starting with PS3, PlayStation consoles comes and also support all 3rd party HDD/SDDs, so gamers already have that option to game fully digital anyways. I believe Sony will stick with giving gamers access to both options. Physical/Digital. Sony doesn't need to change or build two versions when they can have one version give gamers both options.

yes 100%... cheaper console... smaller console.... all my xbox library is digital. discs are obsolete. same as cd's , dvd's etc. people need to wake up.

No.

Its inevitable that Sony/Microsoft will sell online gaming services. First of all by 2020 the Xbox Game Pass will replace consoles altogether 😀. Think of tv apps of PSN/Xbox Live. Able to store say games on any usb flash drive or external hard drive. The PS4 share game feature will replace the whole lending of games or better yet a family share plan like what Valve/Microsoft are taking forever to.implement. Lower game development costs in conjunction of no more middle man equals cheaper games. Worst case scenario every game developer creates an Origin store. .... Console hardware is done and buried

Why would I want to give the platform holder free reign over prices of games entirely?

No way.

Would I consider giving a third party control of my game library with restrictive DRM? No.

Already am disc free. It's so much easier to just download all of my games on PS4 and hit the PS button and switch.

NO!

I would, just because it's so convenient to buy and auto download. Plus you can always delete them or add them back to your gaming system. I respect those that still buy disc games instead of digital, think they came out with numbers that disc sales are down 50-60% compared to digital with the new consoles. So I think some company might do it in the future but like I said "for me" it's easy and convenient to download, yet I still know how some people feel about buying the disc so to each their own

Not on consoles. PC is different as I can still after so many years play my games after buying new machines and upgrading several times. The same cant be said about consoles...and is why I will never go full digital on consoles.

No.
I buy all my games digital on PC and PS4, but for the PC there are several options where to buy them and that keeps the prices cheap (Steam is not the only place). On PS4 I also like to buy digital because I get games on sales, but that will go away if buying digital was the only option since that will turn the PS Store (or Xbox Live) into a monopoly, and you can start to expect prices to go up to a $100 per game, or even more.
So even for those of us who don't care for physical games, I think having that option keeps the prices on check.

I personally don't care anymore, but I bet retailers would be pissed off,.. and that is not a good thing,.. being able to trade/sell the thing is also a good thing.

Microsoft loves telling people to factory reset their console when troubleshooting. If you've experienced this, then you know the struggle is real, I own over 250 games, mostly digital and it can take an eternity to just download 10% of that, it's the #1 reason I dont store anything internally on my X1 anymore, I however do buy physical copies of my digital games to use as a backup/install discs when prices plummet low enough and there's a buy 2 get 1 sale to complement it.

I have a switch so I technically already have one, but I will never get a console that doesn't have a physical option. When you buy digital you only get a licence to play the game and I can't get rid of it if I don't like it.

NO!

What a stupid idea, the internet can barely handle most games online, the connection must be beyond perfect and NEVER fuck up, not once!... Disc or cartridge we all need physical copies. Consoles would also have to have like 10tb bog standard which would bump up prices. Maybe digital only in 2050 lol

Yes I would. I don't use discs anyway.

Nope.

No. I don't trust any company to properly handle a digital only system.

I like it the way it is. There are physical and there are digital.

Give me at least 3 TB of space, and then we'll talk.

100% yes. I've got a library of 250 digital games and don't own a single physical copy this generation

lol, nope.

Sure if the price of digital was cheaper I mean I already buy digital since 2013 and playing a lot of alpha/betas of games I get to see what I'm going to buy anyways!

NOTE TO SONY: If you go pure digital with the PS5, I'm going to be purchasing MUCH FEWER games. I rarely buy used, but I almost always buy physical. Just so I can return it if I hate it.

Definitely. Have never put a disk in my PS4 or Xbox One.

hell no i love discs

I mean, the Switch uses cartridges, so yes.

Yes, I was ready for it when X1 announced it and I'm all digital on Xbox, about 90% digital on PS4 and Switch will probably be half and half.

Option? yes. no more disc based at all? no.
It's the way it'll end up being eventually anyway.

NO. When I have the disc , I have control. If my HDD craps out down the road and the publisher decides to not list it online , Im crap out of luck. I want to have that in my hand to use when I want.

Yup it's called the Switch.

Hell no!!!!! So developers can charge whatever they want and keep their game prices high like Nintendo does their 1st party games?

I mean iv grown to love digital over the years but I like physical copies better and I miss my manuals. We're living in a world though where both coexist together. Option is a beautiful thing.

Nope. There's no resale value in digital downloads when I'm done playing a game. It also takes forever (on a fast connection) to download full sized games. If a console is digital only, that's a sure sign I won't buy it.

Ive gone half and half now, if i know i wont be trading a game back in i buy it digitally, and for the rest a physical copy so i can trade it if i feel the need, but all digital is a no for me, hell if they made physical things like the old days id buy all physical, i still remember opening a nes rpg and having a huge book full of art and bios of the characters etc, i do miss that.

It would be for me, I almost exclusively buy physical games on PS4 and Xbox One. PC you don't really have a choice so I generally do digital, but I would buy physical PC games if they didn't have a single use activation.

Easily yes.

If gamefly got on board with digital rentals then yes, in a heartbeat. I hate physical media. Hate losing it, hate scratching it, hate storing it.

ONLY IF:

a.) there was the option to back up ALL content to secondary and tertiary hard drives for as many redundancies as I see fit because all hard drives die (vs game discs which sit pristine in cases for decades).

and

b.) There was NO ONLINE REQUIREMENT beyond a game's initial download (so that if a game is no longer supported or available or if the game maker goes belly-up or the console manufacturer themselves are defunct, my purchases are utterly unaffected). Despite what publishers or developers want to believe or whatever idiotic EULAs I'm forced to click through to play my games that I paid for, I don't LICENSE any f*cking one of them. I OWN them.

Otherwise, you can shove your digital-only console.

Only if physical games were phased out and even then it would be done begrudgingly.

No thanks can't beat the physical product, love the boxes and box art. And regards to no discs Nintendo are doing that already with the lovely card based games( switch). 😀

I would personally only consider a disc 3free console if the price of the game was cheaper than the physical copy buy say $10 yes then I would be happy to buy a disc free console.

Even then I would still prefer the option!

No,would you consider having no customers?

Hell no,

and the 1st bastard (Gaming entity ) that attempts will be laughed and shamed to scorn by the majority of game consumers.

* Digital games don't drop in price as often, and you can't trade them in so no.

It's not that I'm against digital downloads, I just want to have the OPTION of playing a game I own that is disc-based.

Microsoft should of stayed with the digital only console!! Of course a lot of people would boycott!! I understand that!! Can you imagine the developer support if developers knew they would get 100% of their profits .. what I mean no second hand sales!! From Craigslist or gamestop, Bestbuy etc epic support

Well considering i have already ventured down that path in terms of 99% of my purchases this generation...maybe. I like having a disc player as an option but I would be open to disc less IF the price of the console reflected a decent discount for offering the option. If its only saving me $20 then likely I would opt for a disc drive.

No.

still buying discs in 2017? lmao wtf

If the games on switch was cheaper, yes but it's physical disc for now.

No.

Disc-free maybe, as long as there is some kind of physical media option. Digital-only will never work as long as there are slow internet speeds, download caps and used games. Not to mention it would require a huge segment of the industry just die off and pleople get fired.

My p4 is digital only actually, i only have bf4 as a disc and thats bc its the p3 version

Yes. I go all digital anyways. Just make it so you can sell your digital games and they would be credited to your account, but you could only sell them a set limit of times.

Like if you bought it off PSN, ect. You'd have say 4 uses (times to sell), but say GS had an app that you could buy games from (used) and it has been traded twice, so there are only 1 time left to trade. There would be a system in place to see how many times it has been traded, ect.

none of my friends buy physical copies anymore. we all just game share. you guys do realize its only a matter of time before we go 100% digital. get with it lol

No.
Nor will the big three. Sony Ms Nintendo.
They need retail to sell the hardware, without software retailers will not sell the hardware.
See the "problem"?

Absolutely not.

Fuck naw!

Not a chance. Every time I go on the PS Vita digital store and see none of the prices have gone down at all for really old games I just find it frustrating.

nope digital is too expensive which makes no sense

No.

Uh...NO. People forget that the majority of the US has mediocre internet at best. Those people don't want to spend many hours if not days to download a large game. Let's not forget the download quotas.

And with each new console game size keep increasing.

I totally would.

But digital prices would have to come done

Only if the pricing drops to that of equivalent physical releases and there is a guarantee that the library of purchases will be forward compatible somehow.

No, I prefer physical copies of my games. Also this would start a horrible precedent.

The only way I would even slightly consider it (as I have good WiFi/Internet) is if the digital cost of games goes down. There is no reason (to my knowledge) that a digital game should cost more than a physical disc.. Fix the pricing of digital games, and I might consider it (since I hardly ever sell off my old games).

No, because I'm not always guaranteed reliable Internet 24/7. I also prefer physical in case someone wants to test run something before purchase, or for troubleshooting purposes.

N.O.

No, never.

An option? If done well I think it could be very successful.

Sony could make a $200 PS4 with a 500GB HDD and perhaps no optical port. It would be half as big too...

hell yes. can't wait to see the day when everything gets streamed without dedicated hardware. future is looking bright.

Yes!

.............................. .............................. . .........NO. Who would be that dumb to give up options?

Ofc, I'm already using digital content only since 2008. My PS3 and PS4 consoles are virgins, they never had a disk inside them. Useless waste of space this bluray drive is for me. Hope next playstation will ditch drives for good.

That's basically what my PC is ATM... A glorified Steam machine "console".

Not unless these games are cheaper than they have been. If I would have to get only digital games there better be some type of sale every week and games be cheaper than the normal.

nope nope nope dont trust digital sales at all as they control the market and the prices.
plus the prices are not that great.
i want to trade or sell my game after i finish a game or add it to my collection