With modern games you have to wait for like six hours for the stupid thing to download, if you even have the hard drive space to redownload it in the first place
Is that hassle worth it just to revisit some game from your back catalogue for half an hour? Eeeeeeeeeeeenh
I’ve been saying this for years. Consoles gave up their advantage when they moved online. It used to be that they were expensive, but you could immediately play the game, locally with your friends.
Now they have all the downsides of a PC, but with none of the upsides.
The impetus for this post was when I wanted to play some Halo MCC for a bit, only to discover I’d apparently deleted the game at some point. Looking at a 170 gigabyte install size I decided to do something else that evening