The Gaming Deals Thread

[souljahbill]

My question doesn't pertain to just PS4 or XBOX1, it's for both so I figured this might be the best place for it.

I'm old school and like the disk version of the games, once I get tired of them I like the option of trading them in towards credit for future games.

My question is for digital games, do they install 100% on your HD or is it just a footprint or key file? I ask b/c, what happens if you have a digital copy and the PSN or Xbox Live is under maintenance or goes down like they sometimes do. If you have a digital copy of the game does that mean you're out of luck if the network goes down?

Currently it seems like if the network goes down I can still play my physical copy offline. Is this issue with an Online/download version?

It's on the HHD. You can play any offline gameplay (like single-player) if the network goes down.

My trouble with digital downloads is that if the next system doesn't allow for backwards compatibility, any game you bought is effectively tied to that old system forever and you have to keep the system to keep the games. You can't tell GameStop to to give you more money because you have 30 games on the HHD downloaded onto it already.