Bad News For Physical Games & Microsoft Is Taking Over The PlayStation Store? | News Wave
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- It looks like another major retailer is taking a step back from physical media in stores. Microsoft appears to be turning in a big week in the PlayStation store leading them to surprisingly the top spot even over Sony.
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00:00 - Start
00:53 - Delta Emulator Shown Working On Apple Vision Pro
2:13 - Octopath Traveler Back Up On The eShop
3:22 - Paper Mario Preview And Review Dates
4:23 - Physical Media Is Being Phased Out At Target?
8:59 - Fallout Sales Jump Heavily In The UK
12:39 - Microsoft Has More Best Sellers On PlayStation Than Sony
15:32 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Info
17:06 - Poll
18:22 - Comment Of The Day
#Nintendo #PS5 #Xbox - Hry
RE: The "Physical Phase Out", now is just about the *worst* time to be committing to this - just recently our national public broadcasting news service ran a report on the fact that people are getting fed up with too many streaming providers and the cycling libraries never having what they want to watch, and going back to discs for the simple reliability of it all.
I've never stopped buying physical, myself, but signs really do point to something of a renaissance for physical movies and TV as people get fed up with the crowded and unsatisfactory streaming landscape.
Well yeah, people finally start to realise how companies have taken away media ownership from consumers little by little. People have been blinded by the convenience of having everything readily available without the need of huge libraries, have been praising it as better ignoring all the time how companies nudged us where they wanted us. Just like the frog in the boiling pot, once realisation sets in, it's already too late.
In a few years, Sony will likely reveal 8K Blu-ray along with the PS6. Then I'll buy all my movies again in 8K.😊
I'm still buying movies in 4K, by the way.
I buy everything physical but this kind of decision makes sense. If people aren't buying why waste valuable shelf space. The bigger mistake is not having the physical games on the stores website
Thats why you go to the library get u fav dvd u wanna watch and burn it to a disc lol like the old days
@@YunisRajab Did you actually read my comment? I literally said that evidence suggests that the average audience *are going back* to buying DVD/Blu, so getting rid of it now, of all times, is a poor decision.
It might have made perfect sense a few years ago, but the current state of streaming has people fed up.
No physical, no purchase. That simple now.
That’s what I’ve been doing, really sucks Diablo 2 resurrected and the battlefront remake didn’t have physical releases.
Well Battlefront re-release is a dumpster fire, so dodged a bullet on that one
I don't mind the occasional digital game, primarily for PC gaming (Steam), but my issue with that is the always online and Denuvo crap forced into it.
@@ramonosuke I didn’t plan to play the re master online, just wanted it for the portability and single player.
Been me for a while now
Gonna start a new box chain called Let’s Get Physical to corner the inevitable physical media revival in 2035.
We have to go back to LaserDisc
@@cellphonesmartphone7496 yes
We need a new invention to make it lasts longer then Cartridges and Discs.
@@FTChomp9980I would be happy if Companies could just give us an option to get the games on a cart or create multigames carts or SSDs. I want something I can have ready to play as easy as to slide a disc inside PS5 tray.
You’ll go out of business tho….
Unless it's a sale under $5-10 I'm buying physical every time.
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@@reticulizeta7351 I’ve snagged plenty of digital only sales for like $3 which is worth it for those cases. I do prefer to have physical media in general.
That is why I'm saving up for a small backlog of old indie switch games(and 1 3ds game).
I really don't think a lot of people understand how bad it is that physical media is going away. Wake up people!
Most people don't buy physical games anymore, so them going away doesn't impact them. It's not really the end of the world, but it does suck. PC has been digital only for like 15 years now. On top of that, physical games are very quickly losing their benefit. Most games that release still require day 1 patches, so you don't really get the benefit of being able to always access your game. The main benefit is ownership/being able to transfer ownership, which is certainly a big deal and worth fighting for, but even that has been eroded by live services and games requiring you to have an account.
@truedps8 this is a lie. When it comes to games which are offered both physically and digitally, physical remains to be the majority of the market. Don't believe the corporate disinformation
Younger generations grew up digital so they don’t know what they’ve loss. It’s how it works either everything. Hard to miss something you never had. Same reason they rabidly defend micro transactions and companies taking us for every cent they can. It’s all they’ve known
Physical or digital really shouldn't matter. The issue is with laws governing digital ownership (or lack thereof)
The simps are giving up ownership over convience. Fools
Man, game publishers are just giving me more and more reason to keep my money this year.
Yea it's not looking good for them lol
emulate
Support indie game developers. 😊
@@fuzznugget246 Pirate you mean.
And how about having a backbone?
Physical for Life !!!
I don't want to rent my games digitally !
Yes! We need more Physical Advocates! Physical for life I still buy all my games physical.
Exactly👍...
Except its pointless when its just a frigging download
@@Matanumi A Friggin download that takes a decade meanwhile for Physical pop it in then your done.
@@FTChomp9980no he minds a lot of physical game disks are just empty and have code. Ever noticed every time you put in disk of new game it starts a 80gb “update” 80gb is size of whole game. Most physical copies are just key that’s kept on disk. Though it’s still cheaper then digital most of time
Almost tempted to cancel my Target Red Card. No psychical games = no sale. If the game companies side with the likes of Larry Fink and Klaus Schwab expect rejection. We all have 40 years of games to play if you wish to spit in our faces.
Why did you even had one?
@@Matanumi
5% off. Plus, they always have sales going on and coupons auto-applied. I mean, I've gotten a lot of movies cheap from the Buy One Get One 50% Off sales which stacks with the extra 5% off. That's the great thing about Target: coupons stack, and you can use them until they expire. When they have coupons for Spend $25 On Health Products Get A $10 Gift Card, I load up on stuff I use anyway and get a handful of $10 Gift Cards in the process, which I use on normal groceries. Essentially, shopping at Target with a Red Card can save you a lot of money.
I remember going to GameStop in the same week Pikmin 4 released on switch just to be told that only ONE COPY of the game was sent to the store (and it was a preordered copy) despite it being the newest first party Nintendo game at the time. I went to a nearby Walmart instead and not only did they have Pikmin 4 but as well as a bunch of other Switch games that GameStop location didn’t have, which is absolutely BAFFLING to me.
Same thing happened with a few game purchases I’ve made. At least my GameStop is in the same strip as one of our Walmart locations 😂😂😂
Even my local used game shop was able to get a bunch of pikmin 4 physicals.. target probably isn't even trying
Are you really baffled by this?
I regularly check my local Walmart before work on release days and they never have any titles until that evening or the following day
It shouldn't baffle you that gamestop sucks.
Imagine what we couldve had if the writers of the halo show cared for the series as much as the writers for the fallout show did 😭
Choosing Paramount was a mistake.
@@LogicalError007 you can definitely blame the showrunner, but leave Paramount be. They have made some great shows
I'm not that impressed with the Fallout show. There is plenty of nonsense in it.
@@JaysonLee87 Your favourite shows are by them as well.
@@JaysonLee87because they need validation from the masses for choices THEY made
I still buy physical game releases!!!
No
@@josephferrel3413 Yes
Never buy digital except for some indie games.
I was very pleased to pick up Lies of P physical on sale. Will buy every PS5 game physical if available
@@johnathanfrost378Never buy drm digital*. GOGs digital games are as good as were gonna get with regards to owning our games digitally.
Multiplatform games that sold well on PlayStation continue to sell well on PlayStation after being acquired by Microsoft? I'm Shocked.
Yeah, the COD one is no surprise. It has done well on PlayStation for yeare2. Fallout is getting an unusual boost and were already on PlayStation. Sea of Thieves is on there, but relatively low.
I think your missing the point. Its now that they are shocked about it (aside from some games like sea of thieves and some others that WERENT there) but the point is that since Microsoft couldnt beat them in console sales, they now just make a huge chunk of money on sonys game sales instead. Essentially taking advantage of sonys install base. Its a win win for microsoft. The o'l "if you cant beat'm, join'm"
Yeah. More than half of the games on that list were on Playstation platforms prior to Microsoft acquiring the studios. So to say this success is due to Microsoft is so misleading
@@xxzenn01xx9
And Sony still makes money from the third party license fees, and those Microsoft games only push more PS5 console sales. Really, the only thing that changed is Microsoft giving more people a reason not to own an Xbox, because their games are on PlayStation. Yes, Microsoft makes money selling games on PS5, but they lose Xbox console sales which also results in losing third party license fees and service subscriptions (such as Game Pass). In short, Microsoft's market share will continue to dwindle.
@@davidbromfield8328 its not about being DUE to microsoft, its about it being a success FOR microsoft. As in everything microsoft is putting over there that wasnt there like sea of thieves, or things that were already their, are continuing to generate additional revenue for them, despite them being on sonys platform. In otherwords people are giving them a try instead of just going "oh, its mocrosoft now, i dont want anything to do with it" and plenty of gamers are petty enough, i could see that being a genuine concern for mocrosoft.
Another thing that helped the Fallout games is that they are all on sale everywhere for pretty cheap.
Your argument falls apart when you realize it's tracked by revenue.
@@RubyRose23328 You are trying to start an argument where there is none. I stated a fact, which is the games are and have been on sale since the show released, on all of the platforms they are available. Based off of a lie. He said SALES chart, not REVENUE chart. He even links the source on the graph that also says SALES.
@@RubyRose23328damn, you got punked off and just bounced 😂
The games $5 everywhere. Get some logic bro. 😂
@@thedude8128 And? Means literally nothing. If its 5 dollars and still topping the charts that means sales are through the roof
@@DonaldWyman Sales charts are tracked by Revenue.
I walked into my local F.Y.E. and they are phasing out all movies, CDs, vinyl, and games. Absolutely blew my mind that they are turning into a store selling pop culture related crap toys and gifts.
I remember when I was excited when the blu ray player first released. I ended up with a ps3 and brought my life back to video games
I think the fact that Sony had a blu-ray in the PS3 killed the “HD DVD” format for sure. I remember waiting on that battle when they first came out because it seemed inevitable only one format would survive, having your gaming console be a 2-in-1 was massive.
@@abbatoirnoisesand yet many shows and movies still are released on HD DVD, especially anime.
I bought the XBox series X not necessarily for the blue ray but I was able to retire my old DVD player because of it.
@@wayner7263 really?! I thought that died 😂
Blu Ray porn was the best!
Fantastic. Games company get to keep total control of stuff that we’ve bought with our own money. Nothing to stop them remote deleting stuff if they wanted to once connected to the internet. Terrible situation. Happens with movies
If Physical media goes away it is going to be realllllllly bad for us gamers, for starters preserving those games will be a lot harder as we would have to rely on some hackers to hack a console so that we can dump those files. And not only that some of those games might not even be obtainable after a digital store front closes down. I fear the worst
MS/Bethesda missed the opportunity to port Fallout3 and New Vegas to the Nintendo Switch for years but now even more so, if we look at the boost the series is getting thanks to the show.
I was really hoping they do that since I don’t have a steam deck 😢
I mean they probably did there research and saw it wasn’t profitable or not worth the hassle. Those engines are ancient and would probably be a nightmare to optimize
I mean they probably did there research and saw it wasn’t profitable or not worth the hassle. Those engines are ancient and would probably be a nightmare to optimize
The fallout show literally did bethesda a huge service
Which was partly made ... by Bethesda
We're gonna see a lot more live adaptations of games for sure. Only for them to ruin all that goodwill again. The cycle never ends.
By censoring fans that are speaking the truth on how bad the show is.
And Microsoft
@@Noname15514 I’ve heard nothing but good things. What do you mean?
Gamestop is gonna stay physical and I can see them getting into movies. They already started carrying some bluray movies and such
You all realize when physical media is gone things are going to get very bad for the gaming consumer quickly. And you will have no recourse. I don't think you all realize. You will own nothing.
The thing is, as both a gamer and long time equities investor, it’s a win-win.
Data shows digital is more accepted by the day, hence why the likes of Apple and Microsoft are worth 3 trillion dollars apiece.
We keep physical media- I win. We don’t? I still win because people other than you will still purchase in droves.
It’s like I can never lose. 😂🤣
Get? Go buy a physical copy of Tekken 8 and you get 4 characters and one mode. Had to download 40Gb of data to get the full game.
@@cbgg1585 Remember no one gives a damn you're an investor
You made my point. It's good for corporations and horrible for the consumer.@@cbgg1585
@@MaxrepfitgmFor which console? Doesitplay shows for PS5 tekken 8s physical disc includes 32 characters, 16 stages, story mode, arcade battle, character episodes, VS mode, Arcade Quest, super ghost battle, practice, tekken ball etc. etc.
The Switch section in my local walmart was packed with games and accessories, with the playstation having only one door with maybe 30 spots total for ps4 and ps5 games, and the xbox section being the saddest with an 80% empty shelf and 10 of the same full priced xbox one games thatve been there for years
Same, besides the annual CoD, Madden, and FIFA releases my local Walmart has had the same 4 Xbox games for years.
God forbid wallmart is the only place left to buy physical games. They put theirs behind a glass wall
I dont want to rangle up some employee just for that
I travel all over for work. In some big cities, Walmart has on site security and locks even iPhones charging cables behind glass.
@@I_SuperHiro_Imy Walmart has laundry detergent now behind a glass wall.
Yea mainly Democrat cities@@I_SuperHiro_I
You can blame your local politicians for enabling theft and not believing in policing crime. Or even accountability
@@cordercorder8785 California?
I remember when midnight launches were a thing! I used to camp for PS2s-PS4s and COD launches were legendary!
Those were the days lol!👍
"Microsoft is taking over the playstation store" is really one way to put it.
not reality though
@@roseforyoubabe yet figures showed it 🤔 😂
Yeah I rolled my eyes at that segment. Microsoft is on the PlayStation charts on a technicality. Other than Sea of Thieves, Microsoft had no involvement in the development of those other titles. They just happen to be the parent company now after buying out. They’re reaping the rewards now, but it’s not like they had a hand in any development.
@@Doctor_Horrible759By that logic, no other company which has previously bought studios/publishers/developers has had no involvement with those other titles.
@@Donald_Allan It's like saying Disney did a great job with the original Star Wars trilogy or that one of the best selling Xbox games is a Sony game since they bought Bungie.
In the future, the "Video Game Section" at retailers will be the Carousel you see now that has Google Play and Restaurant gift cards.
The won’t do this due to theft
Gift cards are one of the most stolen items. Lots of businesses have stopped doing physical gift cards because of this
@@AlexP-dz7ew Unless you physically purchase a gift card / gift game at a register, the card's code is never activated to begin with. All gift cards sold function this way.
When more people realize that shadow editing and episodes being dropped from streaming services happen quite alot, they will be back on the physical media band wagon. I have started buying physical media when I realized, Star Gate, Star Trek, Its always Sunny in Philadelphia and other shows have been edited or dropped on streaming services running the series or episodes.
Same. That's why I started buying movies again. I got a nice collection of 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD movies. And none of them can be altered to remove language or "problematic" scenes. People talk about the importance of game preservation, but movies also need to be preserved.
Walmart are also reducing physical media as the same as Target as well so I have been told.
Correct. There are five Walmart's in my 25 mile radius. 3 still have a video game section, 2 have mostly just removed video games, to the point that there are only a few key new and leftover games. (And they are all in one case, PS5 2 shelves, XBX 1 shelf but mostly Switch 3 shelves. There are a few holes in the stock and most games only have one or two copies)
So to shop at a Walmart with video games I have to travel 8 miles away, instead of the one that is 2 miles. (I know # first world problems)
One of the Walmart near me pretty much reduced the size of video games section and moved it to a minor section
The Walmart in my area had almost every physical game marked down some as low as $5 & $10.
Hubby and I grabbed a couple games from Walmart a few days ago. Most games were bought in store Star Ocean was ordered online. Nier Automata $10, Star Ocean The Second Story R $20, Illusion Island $20, and Dragon Quest Monsters for $30.
Love you John, and I regret being that guy - but at 7 out of 25, Microsoft has the *plurality* of top 25 games, not the majority. No single publisher has the majority in this case. Thanks for the daily updates, love the show.
No physical media means no money from me
Lmao, please. PLEASE tell me you don’t own a Steam Deck or these portable PC’s or a Steam account.
You can’t make such a faux outrage statement and then proceed to play on your Steam Deck. 😂🤣
@@cbgg1585 Digital is basically rentals at this point. You pay for a license with an expire date.
If you lose your account or their servers go down, you end up with nothing. If you want full ownership. Buy Physical or from GOG.
Steam so far Lets you redownload games you already bought even if they removed it from the store
@@cbgg1585Steam deck sold about 2 million it is irrelevant
Couldn’t agree more ✨
Coffee and Newswave. The perfect combo!
The manga section in Target has definitely been lackluster recently. Luckily I got Half Price and Barnes and Noble. Interested to see what they replace it with seeing as Target shelves already have random blank spots. And that's not including the stuff they keep in the back only upon request.
It's getting tricky for Christmas and birthdays when physical copies are hard to come by. How are we going to wrap and open gifts?
Wrap gift cards.... 😞... which is really not ideal
TBH this is one of my top 3 reasons why I still love physical media and nobody else is talking about it. Gift cards are lame.
Order them online?
I think that might be the main reason for smaller games sections in stores, people ordering online, and not necessarily physical media being phased out.
I’m someone who didn’t play any of the Fallout titles but after the show I immediately downloaded Fallout 4 and New Vegas. I’ve been playing 4 pretty much nonstop (if you’re on Series X you can use a mod to have 4K and 60fps). It’s a ton of fun.
There's a native series x version releasing which hopefully fixes the constant crashing issue the Xbox one version has
Mod on series x?
@@lAmTheeOne yeah. Xbox allows games to create/use mods.
@@Darklord_tK hmm I haven’t had any crashing at all. Probably have about 20 hours in it so far. Both mods I’m using (60fps with ultra settings and the immersive movement) both work fine too.
You don't need a mod for 60fps since it's one of the games that has the fps boost available just need to enable it in your console settings but it's certain areas of the map that are super cluttered that cause the game to crash you'll be able to play for hours as long as you avoid them, but even without mods the game will crash every time in those specific spots I actually had to use mods that remove objects just to play at one point might be better now as it's been a few months since I last tried to play
Way I read it is square had no faith in it so they let Nintendo publish octopath. But once it succeeded they just waited for the deal to expire and brought it under their house again.
Nintendo is a great advertiser
Then why would they greenlight it?
Amazon will end up with a monopoly on the only source to have you able to buy physical games....
Lots of people use Ebay. I always try to use Ebay whenever possible, so Amazon doesn't get my money,
Physical game media presence is really all over the place depending where you live. I just moved to Alabama from Kansas City and it's night and day what's available. In KC there is hardly any games physically in Target. Wal-Mart was hit and miss there. Here in Alabama the Targets have a pretty decent selection, but it's Wal-Mart that has almost everything you could want. Just depends where you live I'm guessing.
Gonna have to buy as many on sale dvds as I can so I can rip them for Jellyfin
while i dread the digital games age, id be slightly more ok with it if we could dump our own collection so they cant take them away.
Problem is they just hit a switch and your console will just say cant play it no licence.
@@compingnick fake package files
God, I hope Nintendo doesn't reject physical games in the future, and I hope that the next-gen Nintendo console isn't the last physical system.
Thats why GOG is the better option at the moment if you want to avoid drm from taking your games. Steam has many DRM free games but sadly most of those require you to modify the game files to make it run without steam. GOG avoids that hassle which is nice.
@@TheGlitchyMario its already happened with the accidental stellar blade demo release. People downloaded it and it wouldn't run after sony realized what happened, even when it ran initially. They just removed the licence. This can happen if the ingame music licence runs out. They can either update the licence or simply remove it.
The thing about physical games is, it doesn't matter what retail stores think and what they will do if the publishers decide to cut physical media. If game studios decide they don't want to print physical game disks to cut costs and sell digitally, what will retailers do? They have no stock so of course they will reduce the gaming sections. Its more about what stock they get, they aren't the ones deciding if they stop selling physical media if they are supplied with stock
Here is the thing about physical copies of video games at target. It all depends on the target
So basically all the cons of consoles without the pros. Definitely my last generation of gaming and it was fun while it lasted.
lol
Oblivion / Fallout 3 was peak Bethesda Game Studio and I will die on that hill.
I love how people a lot of people talk about Fallout New Vegas being their favorite. I wonder how many of those people realize that Bethesda did not develop that game?
Arcane did 3 episodes a week which was really nice. Enough for a mini binge but still left you on a cliffhanger every time
Xbox is killing it everywhere but on Xbox.
(Im saying this as someone who loves their Xbox. Im not console warring, that's cringe)
Except you are cringe because you are console warring.
@@RubyRose23328 sure
Fallout 4 was on sale for about £4 so thats probably helped a lot
These charts are by revenue
@@RubyRose23328 people in Europe must have been buying it like crazy. It's £3.99 at the moment
@MathOwz which proves the show had a massive effect as its total revenue meaning a high amount had to be sold if they were cheap
@@mikeuk666 what I'm confused about is if it's based on total revenue then how is fallout 3 and new vegas on there. You can't buy them on ps4/5
@@MathOwz You can on PC and Xbox
Losing physical media will probably be bad. Not being able to buy games second hand could make games really hard to come by for some people.
I don’t care about the Delta because unlike those people that showing them playing they know what to do. So I keep buying pre-loaded cards or portable systems.
The day the internet breaks again, we will be renting media again in video stores.
The day the internet breaks again I have a feeling you will have other things to worry about instead of video stores.
I think if that happens you’ll be worried about getting food and water before playing a game lol
It’s such a shame that halo couldn’t capitalize on like fallout has. Have to wonder if it had to do with leaning into the world, the lighter dialogue, and not being tied to a main character (only on episode 2)
The halo show was dog 💩 thats why it couldn’t capitalize
Yeah, cuz they didn't have Jonathan Nolan lols
None of this is Todd. This is all Nolan.
If they had bothered to stick to the source material it could have been bigger than fallout easily.
I agree this has little to do with Bethesda Overlords (though Bethesda DOES have to be okay and open to something like this, which is rare).
Halo had a different goal set out for it and the show runners seemed like they were afraid of being compared to the game, while fallout revels in it
Yeah that show called Halo is not great. Needs a complete reboot. Honestly they just need new writers and they are good
My local Wal-Mart got smart with physical game media. They sell all console physical media games at $5-$10 cheaper then digital media, even new releases. The Department Manager is smart to do that.
I think the Fallout sales jump, besides the natural hype, is mainly down to the fact that they are currently available for less than the price of a beer :)
The fallout games were like 5 bucks each. I bought 3/nv/4 all just to have
If they drop all episodes at once, you’ll get people spoiling all the episodes on all platforms.
That's more of a people problem than a content delivery one.
Well it also helps that Fallout 4 is $4.99 right now
Fallout 3 had Jericho. Jericho is one of my all time favorite partner characters. There is nothing like seeing him and hearing him slaughter your enemies.
Once again the best way to start the day and end the work week….Spawn Wave gaming news…this weekend starting Atomic Heart on the XSX…haven’t played a FPS in a minute.
No one cares what platform you're playing it on.
Digital games are a freaking pain to deal with when you have 3 kids.
Exactly, there’s no way to share the games. I’d love to see Nintendo at minimum do Download Play again where you can play games even if you don’t have the game yourself. The DS/3DS era was the best.
@@Andyrewkxbox lets you share the digital games in the same household. One console is the master system, and other accounts linked to that xboxas family members can also play the games. Even on different consoles as lomg as those consoles have the master account on that console as well
@@xxzenn01xx9 yeah I’m aware of that and already share it with my brother. Who lives in his own house. But I appreciate you trying to help. But, that’s still not the same as being allowed to own your media and do with it as you please. You also can’t sell a digital copy.
I heard physical ones are too lol
I considered paying for Gamepass to replay Fallout 4 with the upcoming update, however, the GOTY edition is on sale for around £8, which is cheaper than a month of Gamepass 👍
Interesting Target is limiting their physical sales in store. Our Target is set up pretty well (at least the one I go to). Last I checked they had three consoles set up for kids to play and plenty of games. Kinda sad to hear.
My Walmart is always full of games.
Great! This is not the case in some locations.
My local Walmart is impacted, but there is mostly 1-8 copies of about 110 games available. (Across PS5, XBX, NSW) I have to go to another Walmart to shop for games.
So is my Target, they even still have Wii and DS/3Ds games
@@princess_niya2407 interesting. I assume that the DS games in stock are trash games no one would purchase at a yard sale for $1? My area Targets clearance out all 3DS games regardless of how awesome or terrible they were 4 years ago. I made out like a bandit grabbing 21 mostly fantastic 3DS games for $7-$12 each. I sold the three extra ones recently and they alone covered the entire spree.
@@princess_niya2407 that's awesome
@@Mac_Omegaly fun fact. Usually the games that no one wants become highly collectable down the road.
I'm definitely apart of the crowd that would rather have Episodes of Fallout release weekly. I feel like them releasing the whole season at once could make it fade out of people's mind quickly, oppose to another Amazon show like Invincible where everyone is watching at the same pace and discussing online weekly.
Nice corpo simping. So yourather want to stay subscribed for 3 months instead of just paying one month, watching every episode in 1 week and be done with the subscription?
@@atomixfang I've been subscribed to Amazon Prime for 8 years I believe so I can receive items I need faster, I would never unsubscribe from Amazon Prime and have had Prime video as a benefit as a result of that. The service has multiple shows I enjoy like The Boys, Invincible etc. , don't know why you're coming at my neck like that
@@atomixfang I have been subscribed to Amazon Prime for about 8 years now as it helps save money on shipping and things, as well as get products faster. Getting Prime Video with movies and shows that I enjoy is just a really nice benefit and I personally wouldn't unsubscribe even if I was just subscribed to Prime Video on it's own as the content on there is really enjoyable. I cancelled my Subscription to Disney Plus after Loki ended as there's no other shows I was interested in on there, so I understand where you're coming from, but personally the Fallout show rollout wouldn't effect how long I am subscribed
@@atomixfangWatching a whole series in a week causes it to disappear from my mind quickly. When shows release weekly it becomes an event and something to look forward to. When everyone is at different spots it becomes hard to have a discussion about the show.
Why would anyone want streaming services to act like cable tv? Lol isnt the point of these services to get your Fill of what You want When u want it???
Feels like we're going backwards if we're waiting every week per episode when the content's already finished and complete.
I agree shows obviously stick in your memory longer if you only have 1 hour of a show to absorb compared to 15 but thats on the User.
I have a friend with low revenue. He have a PS5 and 90% of the games he played on that platform are mine. That is why physical is my way to go, because it's mine and I can do whatever I want with it.
When I see physical media disappearing like at Best Buy I feel the same way yoda did during order 66. I hope there’s a funcoland in heaven.
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Weekly is better, because there is always something to look for the following week
You can wait a week until you watch the next one.
@@chasejackson7248That's pointless though because nobody else is going to do that if the whole thing is out.
@@chasejackson7248but then you'll be dodging spoilers for weeks on end
This is why game stop, barns and noble is still needed. I don't have a movie store anymore. My local targets don't have dad's, games, or books, and haven't for a while now. I am expecting my local best buy to do the same. Since they have only been carrying the new triple A games, and had no DVDs last I was in.
And to think the Fallout series in general was on the decline after the disaster that was Fallout 76. Now it's the perfect time to start working on Fallout 5
Thanks for the news Jon and have a great weekend everyone!
Yes to weekly tv episode drops. I’ve been saying for years that streaming services messed up by switching to whole season drops. It means that tv shows can’t stay in the public zeitgeist for nearly as long, which I believe leads to more show cancellations and ultimately to overall lower viewership.
Also, there’s a difference in spending 8 hours watching characters in a series vs spending 8 weeks watching, discussing, and speculating about those characters/storylines. THATS what causes fandoms and long term emotional attachments to form. Now, we all collectively discuss a popular show for a few days before it’s on to the next.
On top of that, it gives people a reason to stay subbed to a service for longer. Seems like common sense to me? Dropping whole seasons means you have to provide content at a quicker pace, and you end up in the position Netflix is in.
Also-it’s lame. I miss having convos with my friends about the latest episode of the latest popular show. Now it seems like either we aren’t on the same episode, or the convo jumps immediately to the ending and it becomes more “next season speculation”.
I grew up with weekly tv series. Once streaming allowed me to binge watch, I NEVER want to go back. It is distressing to me. So often I either wouldn’t remember what went on the week before, or would be gone that night a couple of times in the series and then your’e just clueless. I really hope they don’t do this with all series, if that happens, I guess I’ll just drop streaming and play games full time. LOL!
Binging is fun but having episodes drop weekly gives you something to look forward to each week. Kinda helps
You talk about Microsuck as if they've been "working hard" to be successful.
All they did was BUY companies that were successful and put their label on it. They didn't create jack shit, they just bought it.
Microsoft Xbox should just go full on multiplatform like Sega did back in the day. They will make more money having their stuff available everywhere.
They do. Sony doesn't
Weekly releases of a show is so much better because we get to discuss each episode with our friends
Target is the only place I bought physical media. I bought all of my xbox 1 collection there before the disk drive died
Cyberpunk Edge Runners. TLOU show and now Fallout.
While we gamers are many. The mainstream are still more people. Give them an easy to consumer product and they will get invested.
I’m truly of the theory that commoners have headache and a lot of hesitation when playing games. People sticking to 1 multiplayer game isn’t as much because they don’t have the money to buy multiple games. But rather they are people who seek a place of comfort.
And finally, this proofs how stupid RE was with the Netflix series.
I feel bad about physical media dying, but as someone who has been primarily a Steam user for the last 15 years I also understand the ease of digital, no discs and cases to take care of, not having to change a disc to start a new game. The real problem are these companies like Ubisoft who shut things down and take them from hour ubisoft account. Not to mention keeping a disc collection safe with kids is a whole thing by itself.
This. Steam rarely gets mentioned in these types of videos as the real driving force of the shift to digital over the last 20 years.
I have a problem with anyone ever saying "you don't have to change a disc"....Exactly how lazy are you?
!diots crying about physical dying are simping for Steam and these portable PC’s. 😂
@@spacelion4763I was gonna mention that.
@@spacelion4763It is lazy.. There's no reason no one can get off their ass and change a disc.
We were all used to waiting week to week, but Netflix changed all of that for most of us. I used to like binge watching shows but now I feel like I can get burned out faster or I do not enjoy the show as much if I had to wait a week for every new episode. I think waiting week to week is the way to go.
I have seen several Walmart stores full of games. And I have prepaid for a game at gamestop and it didn’t come in for a week after release
You can't judge Target empty shelves to mean anything. It is simply that the distribution center is SUPER SLOW to send more stock on the truck to the stores. I work in the electronics dept of a Target and it sucks for new releases
Blu-rays are DVDs. Digital Versatile Disks
No they're not, they're Blu- Rays. If they're DVDs then DVDs are CDs which they're obviously not.
@@Maxrepfitgm DVDs are more versatile than CDs.
Its more that people are used to call all disc media as dvd's. Force of habit.
No, it's a different format. Same with CD's and LaserDisks - all optical disk formats, but all different.
Nothing irritates me more than people calling blu rays as DVDs.
Getting tired of this "physical games are in trouble! " business.
If you're on PC and have been using steam for the last 20 years, YOU are the problem and slowly but surely made it the norm.
Acting like this is a console specific issue is ludicrous.
I'm glad to be part of the problem. Anything that makes nerds like you cry over something so pointless is a bonus.
I started all digital on console before moving to PC. Cry more pussy, all media goes digital eventually.
DRM killed physical games on PC, not Steam.
Also, unlike console, digital is OK because you have the files.
😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂 NO the problem is you , All of you that went up in arm over the lock on second hand game sales , If you buy second hand you aren't supporting the developers , As Sony recently said £70 games aren't sustainable , All my steam library is still there and has been there for the last 20+ years
I've been primarily a PC player for about 5 years now. I'm on Steam and 100% agree with you, but remember you need to have a stupid hive mind and ONLY blame Microsoft and Xbox for the all-digital future. Don't go against the fake narrative with logical thinking. 🤭
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It makes sense for DVD because most people have Netflix or download bootleg online. So I see that.
I just dont like the idea ‘they’ will shut my game off when ever they feel its time to shut it down. Then they will be lost
"We can play retro games on our phones!, what an age we're in!"
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I definitely prefer the week-to-week format for streaming shows. Look at X-Men 97, every week there's a new episode, and with it, renewed hype, more talk around it, more people being aware the show exists. While the Fallout show is really good, conversation around it has already slowed down.
I strongly dislike week to week releases.
There's far too much to watch to keep things straight. I much prefer to watch an episode a day or two until the season ends.
Thankfully I don't have friends who constantly talk about spoilers. So I can just wait until everything is out, and limit the number of shows I have in my "much watch" category.
As much as I hate it it makes sense that Walmart and Target would do this. The video game sections of both stores are pretty large and I’m sure they are liking the idea of repurposing all that space if profits are falling. Hell maybe this will lead to the revitalization of video game stores when soon they’ll be the sole providers of physical media. Also one or two new episode per week system is better than binging. It’s not only superior storytelling it keeps the show in all discussions for longer. I guarantee if Shogun dumped all its episodes at once six weeks ago we probably wouldn’t still be talking about it at this point.
A game with no physical release it doesn't exist, only physical from now on for me
I honestly don't remember the last physical game I bought in store. My town only has a Walmart, so it's easier just to buy online.
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The new Target strategy for DVDs isn't any different from what my local Target pretty much is now:
A small store shelf with just New releases and a few relevant brands and IPs (i.e. Disney).
That absolutely does not count. Microsoft so-called "taking over" the PS Store is equivalent to someone not doing anything and still getting credit for the group project. All Microsoft did was buy those companies, and many of the games were out long before Microsoft bought those companies.
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So Sony can't take credit for Last of Us or Ghosts of Tsushima since they just brought those studios
The Sea of Thieves pre-orders being massive obviously count, and maybe Hi-Fi rush since it was originally an Xbox exclusive, but Fallout and CoD definitely don't
It refers to it being their revenue
Sony bought most of its studios too I don't understand how microaofts never count. They bought like 6 of their studios like 5 years ago
Good to see the success of Xbox
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I hope season 2 releases weekly because I watched all the episodes within 24 hours to avoid spoilers, and a week later I've forgotten a lot of important characters names
What I find disheartening about physical media diminishing is that streaming services are becoming as expensive as cable used to be, unless you're someone who only subscribes to like 1 or 2 services, only to see these services push out physical media and put everything behind a paywall to get access to shows/movies that THEY allow you to watch at their choosing. Without physical media, there will be many movies/shows that will disappear forever only to hope that a service will provide it. Anyone is short sighted if no one sees how controlling that is. Streaming services will be glad physical media is gone so they can keep you from going anywhere else to access this stuff. I've said it before, there is plenty of media, whether music or movies that can only be acquired through physical means because streaming services either don't have the rights or don't care about acquiring any said movie/show. Anyone thinking you can get everything on the internet is a farce.
I think it’s important to remember that most of those “Microsoft” games populating Sony’s sales charts were made before Microsoft owned those companies all but like one, those charts would look the same with or without Microsoft, as a company their impact was micro soft.
I truly hate where the future of physical games is going.... we're screwed my friends because we can't so squat about
I like how you ask discussion questions but you actually give your thoughts too. It makes it more engaging than just “comment down below what you think and we’ll never talk about this again!”. This show is a great show to make breakfast to in the morning :)
All those games (Fallout) were on sale on Xbox for the last couple weeks. People were able to get the whole game, all DLC included, for about 10 bucks. So, that made buying them an easy decision. Especially after watching the show.
Also, Fallout 3 was my favorite too. Like you said, walking out of the vault for the first time… almost gave me a hopeless feeling based on it looking so drab, and gritty. Then, after getting into it, I loved it. I didn’t pick up the last 2 DLC’s I didn’t own before the sale ended… and now I’m made of regret.
What I miss about Target is browsing their old CD section. Those were the days.