76
Video Game Chat / Do you feel like you own your digital content?*
« on: September 12, 2012, 07:12:24 PM »
A few years ago I would have said no, but know that Steam and some systems (home and portable) have let me keep my digital copies with new computers/systems I have to say that have more ownership and usefulness from my digital copies than from my disc/cart/etc copies. For example, my Steam games are playable on any PC. Can't say that for my once only registerable CD copies of games for PC. My DSi digital downloads were transferred to 3DS. I can't even play my hard copy of PS2 titles on a new PS3, but the digital version will play on any PS3.
I could blame hardware manufacturers for not making every system backwards compatible with old titles in their original format, but in the end a digital copy if playable on the "new" system is "good-enough" for me. In the future I hope the paradigm is to be able to buy content on any device/system and play it on any other device/system.
I'm not ready for the digital-only paradigm yet, but I can see it's appeal and my eventual conversion.
*With respect to a banned fiend on NeoGAF.
I could blame hardware manufacturers for not making every system backwards compatible with old titles in their original format, but in the end a digital copy if playable on the "new" system is "good-enough" for me. In the future I hope the paradigm is to be able to buy content on any device/system and play it on any other device/system.
I'm not ready for the digital-only paradigm yet, but I can see it's appeal and my eventual conversion.
*With respect to a banned fiend on NeoGAF.