Ah that wasn't clear to me. I can't remember any consumer electronics getting more expensive while still in production in my lifetime, although if we expand out to other product categories it's happening all over the past decade or so. Inflation combined with shrinkflation has been making pretty much everything worse value.

Remember $5 footlongs, 5 for $5 at Arby's, or the 10 for $10 packs at Taco Bell?

My guess would be an Army Men game.

Lots of games have shipped on multiple discs over the decades. As recently as FF7 Rebirth which was shipped on two or three, iirc.

I'm primarily a PC gamer and lack of physical copies is probably one of my top three drawbacks of it. It's slightly different in PC though, because at least we have GOG as a non DRM option.

They do now, not just in the past. FF7 Rebirth shipped on multiple discs.

How many they sold is the real question though.

They do a lot of online sales as I understand it. Given there's not a lot in the Canadian market online for physical resale, they are really only behind EB Games in that regard.

This is an unnecessarily gatekeepy take. I love an extremely wide variety of video games, from Morrowind to Monkey Island, and I think GTA games have had generally compelling stories. Crime drama is a fiction staple and scarcely anyone does it better than Rockstar.

Well, GTA 6 isn't launching on PC any time soon so that's not particularly relevant right now.

I mean, what are you calling modern history? Lots of vintage games are more expensive now than at release.

Most of the games on Steam don't have Rockstar's budget.

I used bread flour, with 1/3 of total weight being whole grain.

Didn't even change the r/ part. Damn man give us a little respect at least take the time to edit your sales pitch.

Games haven't streamed from the disc in... I don't even know how long anymore. The game installs from the disc onto your console for the actual playing.

But the fact that the data is on disc means that I can install it now, or in five years, or in ten years, even after they may have shut down servers or removed it from stores making only the more expensive re release available, etc.

And games have released on multiple discs for decades when necessary.

I can also resell a physical disc. I can let my friend borrow my physical disc. I can continue to play my physical disc on a new account if mine is banned, corrupted, hacked, whatever. I cannot do those things with a redemption code.

GTA Online 2 or w/e looks like its gonna be a monthly subscription to even access it.

Source?

Quite a few consumers are showing in response to GTA 6 that they do in fact want a physical disc. Regardless of if they have to babysit its installation. A small tradeoff I am happy to make.

Also, PS5 discs can have up to 100GB on them, not 30. You're off by a factor of three.

Also, physical disc means no worrying about internets data caps.

I honestly don't know how I could pick one favourite. I have super fond memories of the Sega Genesis, SNES, N64, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, I really could not say which one is a favourite.

Would be pretty wild but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I'm personally not interested in the multiplayer, but some people really are. I think it's good for Rockstar to clarify that it won't have multiplayer at launch. I don't think that is a commentary on the state of the industry; I think it's good communication from the devs in fact. I'm really quite surprised by how much people have honed in on that specific wording as a negative.

Again, games haven't steamed from disc in years. AAA games are not hindered by disc speed. The disc is used to install the game, and then the game is played from drive as if you had downloaded it anyway. You seem to have a few misunderstanding regarding this tech.

I'm also definitely not claiming that our little corner of the internet is representative of consumers at large. Sorry that I gave off that impression.

However, I also think it's worth mentioning that what consumers at large want is frankly rarely relevant. Companies have been driving the trends, rather than the other way around, for a looooong time now. Like, before I was born.