Oh, bullshit. There's a lot of people worldwide that still cares about having physical media with games, even in 2020 in which most of the world doesn't have perfect internet with data caps or people who live in rural areas.
They can easily use a 32 GB card like Square-Enix did with Dragon Quest Builders 1 + 2, what CD Projekt Red Studio had with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition & what Bandai Namco did with Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition.
There should be absolutely no excuse as to why they can't do so from three very old games. They just don't want to because of greed.
Well, wrong. Digital is growing and physical is declining. Stores that sell physical are declining. Stores that sell physical are reducing shelf space. A major Game store (GameStop) likely won't even exist by the end to the year which sells physical (and used copies).
Why would any studio pay additional fees to go from an 8GB to a 32GB cart (x300k physical copies made?), when they could just do download and be done with it? You are using 3 case studies, one of which never even came to the US.
"Greed" = profit. Profit for studios which are porting games to make as much money as possible to still stay relevant and not have to raise the standard price of games to $69.99 or more (because $59.99 has been the normal since the Xbox 360 launch).
I guess I want game studios to make money so they stay in business. Crazy, I guess, since those are also jobs that would be lost if the studio closes.
I;'ll gladly pay $50 for Bioshock. No question
