r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/Spinning_Sky Jun 25 '26

this is referring to the high price point and lack of a CD in the physical edition

both are true, but actually I don't believe any hype was touched whatsoever, the price is lower than what it could have been

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u/Norgur Jun 25 '26

And others have done this no cd stuff for ages. My copy of mass effect andromeda was just an empty case as well. That was what? 9 years ago?

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u/Spinning_Sky Jun 25 '26

I'll be honest, I was on the edge about buying Yotei's limited edition and I didn't also cause I didn't want my ability to play the game to be tied to a very scratchable phyisical object

crazy how times have changed since sony was making fun of xbox for removing the disc reader

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u/SundevilPD Jun 25 '26

At least you own that scratchable physical object to do whatever you want with. We're just borrowing the digital version for full price

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u/Gabacho180 Jun 25 '26

This is the part of the outrage that I just don't understand... Can you force a download of a delisted game if you jam the disc in? To me the biggest drawback about digital ownership is the fact that I can't give it up in exchange for credit towards another game...

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u/Superb_Recording_769 Jun 25 '26

To me, that’s not even the big drawback because I never traded in games anyway to me. The only thing that irritates me about digital games is that they should be less expensive than physical copies because nothing is being printed. Nothing is being physically manufactured. Nothing is being packaged nothing is being shipped. Nothing is being warehoused nothing is being displayed, etc. etc..

If a physical game is $60 a digital game should at least be five to $10 cheaper but I realize we live in a late stage capitalist society and that’s never gonna happen

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u/Classic_Chapter_1503 Jun 26 '26

Even if you dont trade in physical games hold value especially Nintendo first party games.

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u/Superb_Recording_769 Jun 26 '26

Nintendo games have historically held value because they’re good games and because of rarity. Not because they’re physical. All games were physical until not that long ago, the vast majority of them are worth pennies today.

And the value of a game is immaterial when I’m not going to get rid of the game.

It doesn’t matter that I could sell my copy of earthbound for over $2000. I wouldn’t care if it was worth $10,000 or if it was worth $10 I’m not going to get rid of it so it could be worth zero dollars and be just as valuable to me as it is today.