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PositionLower2243 t1_j0bl8ln wrote

I'm a physical media guy so I'd be happy to see something like this but its not gonna happen and getting less likely each year... Price mainly, the cost of including a ssd with each purchase is huge, on top of the case and the prints that the physical media comes in/with, Vs the cost of providing a DL for the game. Also I guess the amount of people having poor internet decreases each year. Plus the big companies love control and money, so being able to lock customers out of their games and making them buy them again is profitable. Many more reasons am sure!

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andimuhammadrifki OP t1_j0btaml wrote

of course someone is gonna pop up the issue of the SSD production cost. it was similar to the case of cartridges back then (more expensive than CD-ROM at the time), but the difference is that SSD, of course, has more capacity (up to 4 TB, although only the 256 GB and 512 GB variants will most likely be used for modern physical games) than that of the latest optical disc technology (4K UHD Bluray, with "only" up to 100 GB), while cartridges back then had less capacity ("only" up to 64 MB) than that of CD-ROM (which is up to 600 MB).

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Brainvillage t1_j0bvb5x wrote

>of course someone is gonna pop up the issue of the SSD production cost. it was similar to the case of cartridges back then (more expensive than CD-ROM at the time), but the difference is that SSD, of course, has more capacity (up to 4 TB, although only the 256 GB and 512 GB variants will most likely be used for modern physical games)

From a quick look on Amazon, a cheap 256GB NVMe is minimum $40. So, add that cost on to the price of the game, are you willing to spend $110 on a new game?

It's not a terrible idea, but costs need to come down quite a bit before it's realistic.

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