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don't worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be "in the clouds"

aren't you excited?

Meanwhile, vinyl is minding its own business...

Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.

No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.

You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you'd better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.

They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know

My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I'm going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don't have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.

all of those are digital

Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.

Pirated digital backups.

I don't doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I've purchased.

So, for me, you're not buying anything, you're just renting for the long term.

Honestly, I'm tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.

At some point does it make sense to use Blu Rays?

I have a No Man’s Sky disk. Like 5% of the code on that disk is in the production game today. It’s online only, so I couldn’t even play it with the disk.

Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.

Side note: modern gaming is shit.

I bought Spyro and couldn’t even play it without agreeing to a privacy policy. It’s a single player offline game from the PS1 era. I installed The Sims 4, I can’t even play without an EA account. I tried Assassin’s Creed and you need an Ubisoft account to open the game.

Shit is fucking stupid.

Where's MiniDisk?

I know that's not what you meant... But those are all digital...

Cartridges aren't dead yet.

True, but there's bad digital like Amazon Video, and good digital like GOG.

Backups can always use all of these. Doesn't matter how scrappy it is a couple of hard drives with a parity in running true as/freenas or just Debian with Mergerfs will last you a lot of years.

Cassettes made a bit of a resurgence recently for audio cassettes though I would never want to return to those days for games.

You don't have to play their game just wait it out Sony and Xbox aren't doing so hot financially ATM.

DVDs still exist. DVD players still exist.

Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.

Sure pal, yea, cd is dead.......