Brainbread 2 console
Same thing goes for any sort of Xbox/360/XBOne game - if you don't have a physical copy, it's not currently installed on any of your drives, and your Internet is trash, you're dead in the water. Oh, you have a PS3, but your Internet is down, you don't have a backup, and you only bought the digital version of the game so you can't reinstall it? Tough break, again. Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky and they'll remaster it, so they can charge you for it yet again. Want to play that PS1 classic game you paid for on your PS3, but your old PS3 crapped out on you? Tough break, chum, you can't play it on your PS5.
You're buying a license to play that game on the specific platform. But what about those older games that you "bought" digitally? If you check the purchase agreement for your digital downloads, you'll see that in the majority of them you're not buying the game. Buying digital means you don't have to worry about storage (other than disk space on your system's drive), and you can always reinstall it later, right? Well, if you didn't back it up onto a different drive, then so long as you have a working system and the company will let you re-download it for that system, and so long as you have decent high-speed Internet then you're good to go. If you lose that media, you're SOL on being able to replay the game later down the road.
#Brainbread 2 console install#
Rebuttal: So basically, buying physical means you have to deal with storing the media, protecting the media, and potentially having to install from that media anyway.