Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I’m gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they’re just trucking along perfectly fine. It’ll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don’t think the 8k argument is valid imo since that’s really niche currently.

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m still wondering why PC videogames weren’t ever released on Blu Ray, installing 120GB off a Blu Ray is much less annoying than having to download the same amount.

    • sleepyTonia@programming.dev
      6·
      10 months ago

      The norm is to download several 30, 60 or even 120GB updates afterwards. You then end up with an inconvenient DRM disc that has to be inserted for your game to run. When instead you could buy it online, download it just like you would’ve ended up doing and then never have to worry about damaging a Blu-ray disc.

      Don’t get me wrong, I love physical copies of games… But in the era of never ending updates, live service games, indie games, and games broken at launch, I definitely understand why most of us don’t prefer them anymore.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      10 months ago

      How would the game companies profit from releasing fully complete and mostly bug free games on BluRay? Without a profit motivation it will never happen.