Episode 10: Physical vs. Digital Games

Physical vs. Digital Games is the 10th episode of Scott The Woz, as well as the 1st episode of Vs. The video was uploaded on March 19, 2017, by Scott Wozniak on Scott The Woz.

Description
Clutter scares the piss out of me.

Characters

 * Scott Wozniak

Credits

 * Scott Wozniak as Scott Wozniak

Plot
WIP

Scott Wozniak begins with hatred for clutter, and seeing how he owns a bunch of physical video games, decides to get rid of them all for convenience. Wozniak then tries to adapt to his new way of life, only buying media digitally.

Throughout the episode, he realizes the downsides of being strictly digital.

To test to see which is faster, Wozniak decides to buy Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection digitally on the PlayStation Store and physically at a GameStop. It appears that buying digitally was slightly faster, but then Wozniak realizes that he just bought the same game twice.

Music

 * Breakout - 3D Dot Game Heroes
 * Main Theme - Snipperclips
 * O Fortuna - Carl Orff
 * Title Screen - Journey to the Sillus
 * Big Blue - Mario Kart 8

End Cards

 * Cancelled Games
 * Definitive Editions
 * Most Wanted Smash Bros. Stages

Gallery
WIP

Transcript
Scott Wozniak: ''Hey all, Scott here. Listen, I hate things, and that includes clutter. Clutter scares the piss out of me, and I'm ready to get out of my life ASAP and quickly...''

Scott Wozniak: ''Jesus! You see, this is what I'm talking about! The whole concrete matter thing has been a fad for eons, and I'm ready to call it quits!''

[Scott Wozniak pushes all the items on his desk onto the floor]

Scott Wozniak: ''I'm strictly living an all-digital lifestyle from this moment forward. I've recently got rid of all my paper, and I'm currently in the process of converting all my movies, music, photos, clothes, water, trees and documents to a hard-drive. And this digitalization of my life accepts my video games as well.''

[Scott Wozniak begins to put all of his physically owned video games into a trash bag]

Scott Wozniak: ''Just the mere thought of owning all these games physically makes me wanna get myself a good ol' fist-shaking. Oh, it's amazing what'll be like when I own all of these games digitally! Ugh, convenience alert! And to think I used to do this:''

[a flashback is shown of Scott Wozniak inserting a game into his PS4 being portrayed as a bad thing with fire in front of the video]

Scott Wozniak: ''Jesus no! What do I look like? Someone who has time?! That was the old me. New me? Only buys games digitally for now on.''

[Scott Wozniak has completed the process of digitializing his life, leaving his room with just his TV, PS4, and the wires necessary to use these systems properly. He even removed the outlet covers.]

Scott Wozniak: After getting rid of all unneeded physical items, I can now definitely say: this is what I'm talking about.

Scott Wozniak: ''Alright, so let me start the Digital Renaissance. What game will I download first... Well I love Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition so I'm gonna want to play that again!''

Scott Wozniak: ''Alright, $29.99 definitely a bit steep for a game I bought physically two years ago, and that I can still buy physically for twenty dollars or less. Alright, well maybe I should wait until I see a game I can get for the same price I bought for physically or maybe even cheaper. In the meantime, I can play these games I downloaded on PlayStation Plus. Well, I have a hankering for Super Meat Boy! Oh, well that's a hearty dose of disappointing. I don't own these games. I can only play them while my PS Plus membership is active. Totally whatever! It doesn't matter that my hard drive is basically full and I can't games for cheaper digitally. What I can do is sign up for streaming service, that being PlayStation Now. I signed up for a free trial awhile back, and it worked decently well. Back then, most of the games had different pricing, and a game like Deus Ex: Human Revolution would cost $30 to rent for 90 days, while you could go out and buy a retail copy for $5 used.''

Scott Wozniak: Now if you'll excuse me before I reenact what checking the prices of PlayStation Now was like back in 2015, I need to take a gulp out of my hourly bottle of water.

[as Scott Wozniak begins to take a gulp, he notices the price of rent for Final Fantasy XIII-2 and spits out the water he did not yet swallow]

Scott Wozniak: ''God, that's such tart water! And what gross prices!''

Scott Wozniak: ''Now the service is much like Netflix, as you pay an annual fee and you get access to hundreds of games. Much better in my opinion, but let's be honest here, streaming doesn't play well with a lot of games. I originally played Pac-Man Championship Edition DX on the service, and it's really unenjoyable through streaming. The game requires pretty quick reactions, but with an online connection being required, that brings lag into play, and it ends up kind of ruining the game.''

Scott Wozniak: ''Digital games have recently disappointed almost every organ in my body, which is unfortunate. The prices are generally higher than physical games, the store space on these consoles are limited, and even if you buy an external hard drive, you can't really put that many games on it. Even a 2 TB hard drive will fill up eventually because new games are so big! You can't even trade in the games, and you don't even technically own the game! So you have a license to run the software, but you don't own it like you do with a physical copy of the game, which you can do whatever you want after you buy it. That's not to say you're wrong if you like digital games. The convenience factor is definitely there, it's just in my opinion, I just see much more benefits to owning physical games. But, we haven't tested out one more factor: Download speed. So, we're gonna purchase Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection on the PlayStation Store, see how long it takes to download, and we're gonna go to GameStop to buy the exact same game there, and bring it back home and see which one takes longer.''

[once Scott Wozniak completes his digital purchase of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, he dashes out of the house and into his car, where he drives to his local GameStop]

Scott Wozniak: ''Hey guys! Don't mind me, just a member of the economic stimulation squad here!''

[by the time Scott Wozniak arrives back to his room, the digital game has already downloaded and ready to play, being stuck on the main menu]

Scott Wozniak: Well the download was faster than buying the game physically, and I can totally assure you that I am completely alive inside!

[it is then when Scott Wozniak contemplates his decision by opening up his physical copy of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, and staring at the main menu of his digital copy]

Scott Wozniak: ...What have I done?

Trivia

 * All of the cards are of episodes not yet aired at the time of this episode's release.
 * Prior to mid-2020, the episode title had no period after "vs".