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  • Not sure if you’re being sarcastic but “digital only” means the only way to put games on the device is via digital downloads

    I’m pretty sure the keyword here is download and not digital, what other kind of download do they imagine?
    I was absolutely being sarcastic about calling downloads digital, since it’s the only kind there is. Even an old acoustic coupler with 75/300 baud is still a digital download, despite being on an analogue line. Which in principle everything up until we got mobile and fiber were. Except ISDN

    Each company tries this because it effectively eliminates the third party/aftermarket sales and gets them a monopoly on prices.

    Which is why the same attempt originally failed very very badly on Xbox. So yes I absolutely agree on your last part.
    Personally I wouldn’t mind that it is download only, if I could save the copy, and buy the downloads as freely from competing shops as used to be the case with installation discs.


















  • How does that in any way change what I wrote?
    Older Hybrids that use a combustion engine to charge the battery, are in fact MORE ICE than electric. They just have an extra step for the power from the combustion engine to reach the wheels. You might as well add an extra gearbox to an ICE car, and call it a gearbox car, because it runs on “gearbox”.
    Tests here (Denmark) have shown plugin Hybrids on average drive only less than half on Battery, so those too are MORE ICE than hybrid on average.

    Of course there are use cases for hybrids, but they are neither purely ICE or Purely EV, they are hybrid for christ sake. That’s also the reason they are called Hybrid.