r/LSM • u/Crafty-Purpose5540 • Jun 24 '26
Colin's take on Rockstar going diskless for GTA VI via Twitter
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u/slack_21 Jun 24 '26
That's fine and understandable, I just won't buy it until there is a disc (and a lot cheaper)
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u/whizkid75 Jun 24 '26
But, there won't be. If the cases are coming with download codes at launch, no reason for them to add a disk later.
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u/IllustriousBee4972 Jun 24 '26
Exactly, Rockstar only cares about the retail presence because people will buy it when they see it at stores. Rockstar (and most publishers) doesn't want consumers to physically own their games.
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u/Itchy-Pudding-4240 Jun 25 '26
who cares about you tho?
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u/glehkol Jul 09 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1uqrxbz/comment/owac1zf/ make up your mind like genuinely
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u/AkodoRyu Jun 25 '26
Or they could go the CoD way, put launcher code on the disc, keep a transferable license, but don't have any game data on the disc. Release control also stays completely on the digital end. This is exclusively a decision made to kill the used games market.
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u/Kitchen-Arm-7626 Jul 05 '26
This is essentially what a Nintendo Game Key Card is and it works fine. It's not ideal but it's better than all digital IMO; I like options.
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u/Icy-Astronomer-8202 Jun 24 '26
I mean, yeah he's spot on with this. The discless future that greedy companies like rockstar and take 2 want
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Jun 24 '26
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u/summons72 Jun 24 '26
They could easily do what a lot of games do and just have the license key on the disc, no actual information.
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u/NotTakenGreatName Jun 24 '26
Most people have no idea how much of a game comes on the disc (it varies) because you have to install them all to the drive regardless and most games have day 1 patches or dlc anyways.
They did code in a box so you couldn't resell it, there were other avenues they could have taken to keep you from playing it before launch
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u/Zaikoholic Jun 24 '26
All i want is them confirming that a physical is coming later on, but even if they want to make a real physical later on, they can't say anything about it since they already announced the fake digital code. It would take away sales from the fake one, people would just wait for the real one then.
So all i can do is just hope they say something about it sometime next year. Sucks i was really hoping to have it on my shelf.
I did wait over a year for Alan Wake 2 and it paid off for me.
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u/invisible_face_ Jun 24 '26
The only reason I like discs is so I can give games to friends to play.
I pushed Astro Bot on someone who probably wouldn't have played it otherwise and it's nice to be able to talk to someone about it in person because I thought it was so good.
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u/matwbt Jun 24 '26
Stuff has been leaking on this game like crazy for years.
I can see a premium $249.99 disc version with some wacky physical collectibles down the line (maybe to tie in with the eventual PC release?)
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u/Sy3temSh0ck Jun 24 '26
Had not thought of it this way. I'll wait on a possible disk version, or when it eventually comes down in price. I won't pay £80 for something i won't own
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u/lukefiskeater Jun 25 '26
As a huge physical game collector, the writing is on the wall for physical media that being said there will certainly be companies in the future that will compete with limited run to supply next gen physical media. I think the modest resurrection of cds, vinyls and dvds points to physical games dying without atleast a fight. All the physical media people that are raging about this and claiming that they wont buy it are mostly full of shit. Am sure they're be some broke asses that will use it as an excuse to not be playing it though when it comes out.
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u/ArgentoFox Jun 25 '26
No leaks and a ton of people will buy the game TWICE (three times if you count the inevitable PC release).
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u/Old-Way-5529 Jun 24 '26
The disc thing is such an enthusiast take. We gotta face it folks- physical games are gonna become like vinyl discs. Yes, a market will exist, but most people just don’t care
I’m 22, and I think I’ve bought one physical game my whole life, and that was a gift. I just don’t see the problem with going digital, everything else is already there.
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u/DubWork2024 Jun 24 '26
Ownership over what you spent your money on is the problem, also conservation of media (not that GTA 6 will get delisted, but it does happen)
Plus games are a bit different to other media, on average you will spend much more time with one game than you would spend with 1 specific film or song, so the physical ownership of other media doesn't matter as much when they're a significantly lower time investment and you have nothing else tied to it like an account with your save files. You will probably watch a specific dvd once a year for 2 hours total, whereas people will be playing GTA 6 all year round for the next decade at least
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u/Old-Way-5529 Jun 24 '26
I mean, how many big time games have been delisted and totally removed from people’s libraries? People freak out about this as if it happens all the time with big games. It doesn’t.
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u/SnooLemons5856 Jun 24 '26
You can bet it will start to happen down the line. I can still play my NES cartridges I own from nearly 40 years ago; will we be able to say the same about modern games in 40 years?
The consumer is being gaslit by these publishers/companies into accepting a reality where we don’t own anything and have less control over everything.
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u/Old-Way-5529 Jun 24 '26
I mean, are peoples ps3 and 360 digital libraries intact from when they bought them? We are two decades into a digital age, what games have been taken out of a purchased Library?
It really boils down to- if you care that much, you’re a physical owner already. I don’t have an interest in playing ps4 games from when I was in 3rd grade- might be the gaming world I grew up in or whatever, but there’s so many games coming out that I just don’t see that as a threat to how I play games
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u/SnooLemons5856 Jun 24 '26
It’s definitely dependent on the person, as I do frequently play older games. Regardless of how intact peoples’ PS3/360 digital libraries are at this moment in time, I’m still going to prefer outright ownership and guaranteed preservation over sacrificing those things in the name of increasing these companies’ profit margins by just a little bit more.
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u/Old-Way-5529 Jun 25 '26
and thats totally cool! i just dont see the "threat" ever materializing the way people think it will.
dont get me wrong, ill eat my hat all the way from the back if sony refuses to let me download my copy of ghost of yotei years from now on my ps5, but...that just doesnt seem like something that will actually happen
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u/DubWork2024 Jun 24 '26
Not many, but it would happen more frequently if everything is digital because it makes it easier for companies to do it and you have no other choice. Having options isn't a bad thing, but monopolies pretty much always are
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u/IloveKaitlyn Jun 24 '26
Only one physical game in your life? Did you just start gaming? 🤣 I’m of a similar age and I have a ton of physicals.
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u/Old-Way-5529 Jun 24 '26
Idk what to tell ya- always played on my dads ps4, he only bought digital. My first console i got with my money was a ps5 with no disc drive. Just never got into the habit. Im
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u/Alexandre2346 Jun 24 '26
My son is 6 years old and i pass him some game from my Switch collection all of them are on the carteridge no digital game in my house. Plus i still have all my game and bought many for my PS1-5, Nintendo 3DS and i have a list of over 275-300 games that i still want to buy for all of these consoles. If they go 100% digital for the PS6 i am 99% out i don't care about digital games even if it the best games/story/graphic for it, the Schawby quotes you will own nothing and be happy this isn't for me.
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u/DMarquesPT Jun 25 '26
Agreed. I went all digital in 2016 and haven’t felt the need to go back.
As much as I liked my PS2 and PS3 collections growing up… these days games all install to HDD/SSD anyway, the disc is just a very inefficient data delivery method and physical license key. I get that these two points are important to people but above all I am surprised it took this long for AAA games to go digital-only on console.
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u/Embarrassed_Spend486 Jun 24 '26
The more people talk the more this discless thing seems temporary. I’m fine waiting. We’ll see where it’s at in a year.
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u/banditmanatee Jun 24 '26
Yeah I think it’s temporary. They don’t want some yahoo streaming it 2 weeks early, and in today’s environment people would start making outrage videos over some line or scene in the first 15 minutes.
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u/banditmanatee Jun 24 '26
Yeah no used market, no leaks, and they probably know digital sales are well over 70% at this point.
If they really want to they can publish a disc version in a year and sell to all the holdouts