If you are a game collector, how are you handling this gen?

[retrosportsgamer]

For this gen (and for Nintendo systems), I'm still aiming for physical copies as much as possible, although Nintendo has slyly managed to get me away from it a couple of times due to delayed releases.

Duck Tales Remastered and New Super Luigi U are my two prime examples. Luigi requiring the NSMBU disc and not even being accessible from the WiiU menu was "frustrating" as a curator. I may try to just buy a case! Both of these had physical releases months after first coming out.

The Mario Kart 8 promotion prompted me to get Wind Waker digitally - another example of where it wouldn't be my first choice.

Having both Remix 1 and 2 come out on disc later this year is another.

[Damm64]

The only way someone will make buy digital stuff is the GoG way. You let me have a back up on a flash drive somewhere and let me download the game as long as the servers are still online. That's the only way i will trust digital buys. If i can't buy it i will download it, burn it on a disc, print a manual and put it on my shelf.

It's not that complicated

If you buy all your games digitally, you're not a collector. You're just a gamer. End of story.

I can agree on this. And im not consider myself a collector even when i own some old games and if i can i will buy the phisical version of everything i like.

[Fragems]

The way I am handling this gen so far is just sticking to the PC and my older systems. Now is the golden age of picking up cheap 360, PS3, and Wii games and I already have a huge backlog anyways. If there is a newer game that I have to have I'll catch a PC copy when I see a good sale. Other then that I am probably going to wait a year or two before hoping into this new gen and let the used market grow a bit.

My PC can still outperform the new generation of consoles anyways so all I really need to worry about are console exclusives and the always annoying piss poor PC ports that get released pretty frequently( Ubisoft). At least the PC community is pretty vocal so most stuff gets fixed within a couple of months and there is always the mod community if that doesn't happen.

[Tanooki]

Aren't you describing PS+ or downloads that require a paid subscription or online connection to access? If my PS3 or 3DS die, I have a hard drive and SD card that has those downloaded games. I don't consider those rentals at all.

I concede that with Sony, but I was pretty certain Nintendo locks the saves to the system even if they're on the SD card with the 3DS. They do this as a security measure so you can't just have 2 3DS's around and play the games on both.


Damm: Aside from printing the manuals in most cases that's how I am too. I've got like 10 games I picked up through GoG I really like, mostly pinball stuff though. I have them all on a nice usb hard drive to keep safe. The only time I think I ever printed a digital manual was the original Civ for Windows, still have it somewhere I think.

[KalessinDB]

Wow. Ziggy's posts in this thread kinda got me depressed (juuust a little)

Anyway. I'd like to say that I'm done at 7th gen, but the amount of awesome titles coming out for WiiU makes me keenly aware I will be moving into 8th gen as well. And I know myself, I won't just dip my toes into it, I'll eventually buy all consoles from it. But that's an eventuality. I for one will be buying everything I can physically, I love shelf candy. Discovering The Cover Project was simultaneously the best and worst thing I've done in recent years -- my collection looks so much better, but my wallet is so much sadder, both from the cost of cases and printing and from the fact that nice displays have actually inspired me to buy more games

So yeah. Screw digital-only. Unless it's something I absolutely must have and there's no other option, I buy physical versions. Heck, the main reason I hack my consoles is so that I can have backups of digital-only games/dlc/etc.

[Sano]

I have a PS4 and a Wii-U. Both systems have games I enjoy and both have releases I want.

Destiny
Hyrule Warriors
Final Fantasy XV (Assuming it is a good FF)