STALKER 2 Shows Off Its PS5 Version in New Gameplay Trailer

It should be mentioned that this is yet another worthless physical release requiring internet. How many gigabytes is on the disc is anyone’s guess. Physical enthusiasts, stay away!

It will have less then 2gb on the disc because it's a m$ thing.

@XenonKnight This has nothing to do with MS.

Physical enthusiasts stay in the year 1251! Stalker 2 is coming to PS5 and I am seriously looking forward to it!

Wasn’t a fan, but cool more people get to check it out, that is if the fear of downloading an update doesn’t get to them.

@Oxy I thought physical enthusiasts want physical copies for collection purposes? Having the case and disc in their ever growing book shelf of games. I never thought how much data is on any disc mattered at all. Lol

@Marquez As someone who will go to great lengths to avoid giving MS money I think you’re ok on this one. They didn’t publish or develop it, they simply got a timed exclusivity deal. Buy away!

@StitchJones So in your fantasy world, people who buy books and vinyl only buy them for their shelves? Just printing one chapter or pressing the first two songs would be totally OK for these people, as long as they’ve got the nice covers to show off?

I mean, you could just provide a download code for the missing 500 pages or 10 songs…

@Oxy bruh how are you replying here if you dont have internet? I'm so high right now....
All jokes aside, i get that its crappy that the data isnt on disc.
I also dont think it matters at all, we really are at a point where if you are into videogames in anyway you probably have decent enough internet to download the data faster than the console can even copy it from the actual disc.
As much as I actually love collecting physical stuff (and I very much do) physical media really is so obsolete that having a box and a disc on your sheld really is the sole reason for not buying it digitally.

@Oxy you do know that the book comparisson makes no goddamn sense right? a book is a book, you can just read it. you actually need something else to even play whats on the disc unless you really like to read the copyright on the back of the box.
even something like a movie doesnt work as a comparisson because:
a)the size is much smaller
b)you dont need to install the movie from the disc.
Games are simply too big and require much more to run nowadays. Blu Ray discs are nearly 20 years old, its kinda insane we're even shipping any kind of data on them still.

@LordOfTurnips @Oxy Oxy, not sure why you turned all snarky on me. I wasn't trying to be a jerk. I'm just saying that with physical copies I thought people bought them for collecting over everything else. I buy all digital and never been a collector, so I don't know what the mindset is on this. I was just trying to learn and was curious.

And LordOfTurnips, thank you. You beat me to it. Since he did take the time to get snarky for no reason, then I was gonna add to my reply that the bookcase comparison is indeed very idiotic.

@LordOfTurnips what I’m debating isn’t whether physical media is obsolete or not. For you, it’s obviously obsolete. But not for me and not for all the companies still releasing physical games. And it doesn’t matter if sales make up 2% or 40%, it’s still tons of money.

I’m also not debating the pros of physical media. Preservation, fear of server closure or company bankruptcies, cheaper price, ability to resell, ownership vs renting. I agree with all of these points but it’s not what I’m arguing for here.

What I am debating is at what point physical media ceases being physical media. For me, physical media consists of the media itself (the text in a book, the music on a vinyl/cd, the game or movie on a blu-ray) and some kind of artistic packaging housing the physical media.
If you somehow make the media part incomplete (blank pages in a book, download codes for missing tracks on a vinyl and, of course, putting 1gb of data on a blu ray) it is no longer physical media. It’s just a coaster in a box.

And while I do love collecting physical games, for all the reasons mentioned above, for me this is not a physical game anymore. The “game” part is missing…

And some other nitpicks from your reply:

• Yeah, a book is a book. But just like a physical game it could just as well be digital. Even you would have to agree were we to remove half the pages and provide a download code for them it’s no longer a complete physical product. It’s a cover with empty pages, just like a physical game with only half the data on the disc. And if book publishers started doing this people would be up in arms.
• I don’t know which movies you are watching but a 4k uhd blu-ray is usually 60-100gb. You consider this small?
• “Games are simply too big”. In my whole collection I have maybe 5-10 games demanding more than 100gb (FF Rebirth, AC Shadows, Jedi Survivor, Baldurs Gate 3 and a few more). The vast majority are under 100gb. And in the event a game is over 100gb you could, oh I don’t know, spread the game over two discs. Just like Square and Larian did.
• Do you know how old books and vinyl are? It’s kinda insane we still use them…