With Nintendo shutting down the Wii virtual console soon it really just hit me. If I ever delete a game that I bought on the Wii virtual console now....I will never be able to get it back. There is just literally no way to redownload it for free.
I also have a whole bunch of games digitally on my PS3. For some reason Sony did not allow us to transfer our digital purchases from PS3 to PS4. So I have about 10-15 digital games that are "stuck" on my PS3. What happens when my PS3 eventually breaks down in the future? I will have no way of playing those digital games I downloaded. So anything I bought will be lost forever.
You can say this about anything digitally. I buy most of my games physically but because of digital sales and cheap games, I of course can't resist just buying something off PSN sometimes like everyone. But with physical games you know you own them forever, there's no way for them to "evaporate into thin air" because you own it. If you system/console breaks down, you still own the games seperately, and you can just buy another console on ebay or whatever. The physical games you own never go away unless you physically lose them or they burn down in a house fire or something.
Digital games just seem like really long rentals for this reason. You own them, but only until the services go down, your console can't be repaired anymore, or licensed are revoked. There's nothing we can do about them.
I also have a whole bunch of games digitally on my PS3. For some reason Sony did not allow us to transfer our digital purchases from PS3 to PS4. So I have about 10-15 digital games that are "stuck" on my PS3. What happens when my PS3 eventually breaks down in the future? I will have no way of playing those digital games I downloaded. So anything I bought will be lost forever.
You can say this about anything digitally. I buy most of my games physically but because of digital sales and cheap games, I of course can't resist just buying something off PSN sometimes like everyone. But with physical games you know you own them forever, there's no way for them to "evaporate into thin air" because you own it. If you system/console breaks down, you still own the games seperately, and you can just buy another console on ebay or whatever. The physical games you own never go away unless you physically lose them or they burn down in a house fire or something.
Digital games just seem like really long rentals for this reason. You own them, but only until the services go down, your console can't be repaired anymore, or licensed are revoked. There's nothing we can do about them.
