Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-10-18, 13:36:

RandomStranger wrote on 2025-10-18, 12:48:

As things progressed recently, I trust MS less and less to not kill online access to digital purchases for this generation... or to kill the Xbox brand in general and pull out the console market.

I feel like X360/PS3 is the last console generation where we can buy a disc and actually expect the game to simply work, right out of the box.

Some games from the PS4/XBone era only have a download code inside the box. Or even worse, there's an actual disc, but the game isn't on there, just an installer which needs to download the rest of the files from the internet. And from what I hear, this got even worse with current gen consoles.

Yeah, and that's part of why I don't plan to move on to a newer generation. Considering a One S or Series S because they are backward compatible with 360 games and I heard that games that aren't on the official compatibility list may still work, like PGR4. Though it might be through third party emulators which probably breaks the ToS and gets the console banned.

Just received this, time to go back to the island