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Disc Editions Make Up 82% Of All PS5 Console Sales (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve had properly stored, professionally pressed, official DVD and CDROM’s suffer bit rot, become in playable and in one case explode into shards in my DVD-ROM drive. And it didn’t take decades, most were <7 years old. Don’t be so sure you have decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I buy thrift store dvds, they still seem to work... Mostly

I see your point. I was mostly cheekey few comments up. I aint that commented to back up but i prolly shoulf start while these things can be had physical with a license

Otherwise gonna be a lot o yarring into the high sea winds.