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[J-Snake]

You are brave, Sherlock junior

[Schoq]

it was a very very sturdy limb

[rj]

You are brave, Sherlock junior

not really but thanks anyway

[SolarLune]

If you have a snes cartridge you cannot easily clone and share it. Also imagine your snes cartridge breaks, then that's it, your game is lost since you only have one instance of it. It is easier to keep games alive on pc, you can keep multiple copies and refresh them whenever you want.

Talking purely about sharing, not about backup copies or something like that:

A physical copy can be lent, while a digital one on a traditional storefront generally can't be. This could be done if Nintendo allowed you to like Steam does with Family Sharing (I think?), but usually, this isn't. So a digital copy is usually harder to share than a physical copy, not easier.

[s0]

i'd like to know some hard facts on the energy needed for running a server farm that hosts a ton of downloadable games vs physical production and distribution.

[s0]

intuitively, i prefer digital as well, but im starting to HAVE DOUBTS.

[Schoq]

don't buy the petroleum industry lies, physical distribution is bad

[s0]

hard facts

[gimymblert]

Okay guys, the joke is that in both case the distribution infrastructure exist and need to be maintain, one game or two won't change the real cost of moving goods, material or immaterial significantly. Just because you buy digital it don't mean the cargo stop transporting merchandising, if anything now they move the parts that sustain the digital infrastructure.

[Schoq]

the corporations and other institutions enabling it are of course to blame and any one extra copy is obviously (literally) marginal but don't be an apologist is what I'm saying

[gimymblert]

You are reducing complex economic problem to simple ideological one. I'm just pointing that the argument has no real merit (and is enabling classist discourse, like I have pointed, basically you are blaming me because I don't have stable internet while I'm being below the poverty line and had to hustle a long time having a connection, irony is that the more I had to hustle the more game I tried to get) because resources are just merely reallocated. I didn't blame corporation I'm pointing at the structural make up that goes beyond that. I mean even if you don't transport the actual good, the good is still stored on physical media, not in thin air, so teh demand for separate specific storage might decrease but then it will just increase the need for generic storage, and in fact it create duplicate so more storage need (on server, on disk drive, on back up storage). I don't think it's being an apologist.

[quantumpotato]

If you have a snes cartridge you cannot easily clone and share it. Also imagine your snes cartridge breaks, then that's it, your game is lost since you only have one instance of it. It is easier to keep games alive on pc, you can keep multiple copies and refresh them whenever you want.

Talking purely about sharing, not about backup copies or something like that:

A physical copy can be lent, while a digital one on a traditional storefront generally can't be. This could be done if Nintendo allowed you to like Steam does with Family Sharing (I think?), but usually, this isn't. So a digital copy is usually harder to share than a physical copy, not easier.

It's only harder to share digitally because of obfuscation. You have the code on your machine, you could copy and paste it to a USB.

A server costs much less energy than shipping distribution network.

In an alternate world, a few physical copies of the game could be delivered to a store and sold for $$$ // kept as backups, then customers could show up to get copies. Or the whole game could have been pre-funded ala Kickstarter so the devs have made their money and distribution isn't a problem.

[J-Snake]

So a digital copy is usually harder to share than a physical copy, not easier.

GOG games are easy to share:P (what is legal or not is a different question)

[gimymblert]

[gimymblert]

Nintendo Switch Fastest-Selling Nintendo Console; Zelda: BotW 100%+ Attach Rate!

Zelda botw has an at attach rate beyond 100% on nx LMAO

[J-Snake]

We live in an industry where 1 million game copies sold is considered a failure. So no surprise there.

[gimymblert]

IN which timeframe? 1days or 1month? or one trimester?

[ProgramGamer]

There's a game that has an attach rate higher than 100% on a console that's been out for less than a month and has been continuously out of stock. I'd consider that a success.

[Schoq]

what's an attach rate

[ProgramGamer]

The ratio of how many copies of a game on a certain console has been sold to the number of consoles sold.