I was XBOX for a LONG time, and at the end of the day it was nice to be able to offload it WITH GAMES for a couple hundred bucks. So … any digital game 2 generations back were legit unplayable.

And at least with PS, if you upgraded from anything less than a PS4 you wouldn’t even be able to PLAY those games on a PS5 unless they were remastered. Unless I’m mistaken, the digital copies do not follow the physical device, but your login, which makes this not a possibility. Likely it’d been fine without, but if you’re just starting to get into having, having a collection of physical games that can be inserted and updates downloaded as time goes on is a HUGE benefit. The XBOX was EXCEEDINGLY easy to get rid of when including the hundreds of dollars worth of games. Here’s the HUGE difference - if you buy a physical game and then down the road sell the console to upgrade, you have the physical games to go with.

Especially with a title this size which you are likely to want uninstall when not playing to free up space then reinstall when you want to revisit. It’s not ideal from a game preservation perspective or for people that have limited/poor internet. Granted that’s likely going to take several years for most games. If you ever uninstall it after that, the disc becomes useless. In the event a consoles online services get shut down or the publisher decides to delists the title, if you didn’t install the game fully before this happened your disc will become useless. This situation could potentially be different in that whatever is on disc won’t work unless you go online and download the rest of the code. This means in future when the consoles online services are no longer supported you can install and play a suboptimal version of the game. Most PS5 series X games work this way, so you should be able to install from the disc offline and atleast have a playable ver 1.01 build of the game. Since PS4/Xbone pretty much all games install the content from the disc, then the disc acts as DRM validation when running. I believe PS3/ Xbox 360 installing game disc to hard drive was optional for most games but offered improved performance.

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