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sveksii posted...

Honestly I wouldn't trust consoles to maintain backwards compatibility (not a historical strong point for them), and once the store for an old system shuts down you'd lose access to all your games you don't already have downloaded. Though at this point it's not really that relevant of a argument, as most games rely on online updates to be usable anymore. Which is why I lost interest in consoles in the first place.

I guess there are more considerations to take in with consoles though. I thought i'd be clutching my physical media but when I got used to steam it's better because a lot of my older PC games are scratched to hell and back and barely work. Though of course the risk is something happening Steam making my collection inaccessible.

I just remember before I went all in on steam, seeing physical PC releases with a download code card in the box and nothing else. That kinda soured the whole deal for me, but I haven't bought a console since the xbox 360(which I proudly never once took online), so I never thought about the different challenges with consoles.