New Innovations In The Gaming World

 New Innovations In The Gaming World

    In the world of gaming, games and content for those games have been shifting towards digital mediums in which no disk is needed in order to play the game. You could buy digital add ons for the game but not the game itself, so an example is you could have bought Call Of Duty Black Ops at let's say Gamestop or Target but when Treyarch released DLC (downloadable content) you could buy it from the online store without leaving the comfort of your home. That was the current trend for many years but until around November of 2013, all that changed. 

    With Microsoft's release of the Xbox One, players were enabled to buy the games they love to play from the Microsoft store, bypassing third-party retailers such as, GameStop, Target, Walmart, and any brick and mortar store that sold video games. Though there were some limitations, limitations we are just starting to feel now with our current technology but the gaming consoles will be shortly out and will swiftly fix those issues. Anyways the trend of getting games online slowly progressed to the norm once it was seen as a much easier way to store and keep track of games. No longer were you needed to maintain and care for a disk, make sure there were to scratches or that you lost it. You bought a license to play the game so to speak from the marketplace. Almost everyone I know does this in 2020, the only times I hear of people going to a brick and mortar place is when they get the super-duper edition of a game that the gey physical bonuses like statues or bags or other merchandise. 

    The stragglers to this trend and well rather shift in the norm would be those who hold onto the deep and fond memories of midnight releases. I still hold onto those memories of my dad and I staying up late at the local GameStop and waiting to get my pre-ordered copy, and being too excited to go home and then be told I have to play it tomorrow and then stay up all night being excited to play my new game. Anyway, its those people who keep buying the physical editions that or they just like having the disk but in today's age disks are outdated.