Take-Two Boss Defends No Disc Version of GTA 6, Equates Physical Releases to Vinyl Records (www.ign.com)

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is a laughable comparison, since vinyl is selling like fucking hotcakes in recent years.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Literally in response to everything going digital lol

[-] KrazyDrew222@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Exactly 💯 I fucking love vinyl.

[-] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 5 points 2 months ago

not only that but good vinyl holds value. its actually considered an investment

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which also is laughable as vinyl is worse audio quality, and an environmental mess, both from a transport view (its very heavy) to a meterials view (lots of pvc and often lead) and energy view (steaming the platters is the only way, and the raw materials).

But people buy it up, because of course they do.

Not defending streaming, I stream my own never used Spotify (although I love Soma FM), but there must be a better way.

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Which have just made a large comeback lol

[-] KrazyDrew222@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Vinyl forever :)

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Which are very popular and highly sought after among certain people, but not liked by execs because they allow you to own a material copy of something so you don't have to rent it perpetually?

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

They sell vinyl records at Walmart.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Of course they would feel this way. Without disc they can keep that 100 dollar price tag forever if they choose.

I mostly bought these games at a discount when people turn them in at Game Stop or Vintage Stock. That will be no doing this with any of their games going forward.

[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

watch the GTA6 soundtrack get released on vinyl lmao https://www.discogs.com/release/6367579-Various-The-Music-Of-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Original-Music-Score-And-Soundtrack

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I can’t wait to purchase this from the V38 store.

[+] herrvogel@lemmy.world -7 points 2 months ago

To be fair, a disc version of GTA 6 would not make any sense anyway. There's no possible way that game would fit in any modern disc format, so the "disc" would just be a download with extra steps.

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Games have come on multiple discs for 30 years.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

At 100 Dollars they could afford more than a disc. Even if not everything fits into the physical media, at least some of the game would be playable without internet connection. It makes no sense to you, but it makes sense to those who want it.

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The biggest issue is that most game studios fail to launch a game that isn’t full of bugs, often breaking. If they didn’t constantly scramble across an arbitrary launch date every time then we might actually be able to buy a fully-functioning game on disc. The first day you fire up a game there is some update to fix bugs.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

But then the disc can still act as a physical representation of the license that can be loaned or transferred to someone else.

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