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A US collector is selling two nearly-new Aston Martin Valhallas at once.

One of the two cars is painted in Ultra Yellow with optional carbon fiber.

In May, a delivery-mileage Valhalla sold for more than $600,000 over its MSRP.

Customer deliveries of the Aston Martin Valhalla only started a few months ago, and already one collector in the United States has decided it’s time to resell a pair. The collector is entrepreneur Milton Verret, and both of his Valhallas will be sold at next month’s Monterey Car Week.

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There’s no word on why Verret is selling them, but he likely thinks he can turn a handy little profit. In May, the first known Valhalla to go to public auction sold for $2.2 million, an exceptional result given its MSRP of $1.47 million. Evidently, people are willing to pay a hefty premium to get behind the wheel of Aston Martin’s latest flagship.

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The first of the two Valhallas being sold by Mecum next month is painted in Ultra Yellow and contrasted with a black roof and exposed carbon fiber elements. It had an MSRP of $1,277,200 and includes more than $217,000 in options. Among these options are the $21,000 and $43,200 Satin 2×2 twill carbon fiber upper- and lower-exterior packages, as well as the Satin 2×2 twill carbon fiber seats and trim, worth $23,100.

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Like the exterior, the interior is bold. It’s dominated by Oxford Tan semi-aniline leather with yellow embroidery and plenty of carbon fiber. A look at the digital instrument cluster reveals the car has been driven just 196 miles (315 km).

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The second Valhalla being sold from Verret’s collection is painted Speedway White and had an MSRP of $1,214,822 with over $151,500 in options. Bizarrely, it too has been driven exactly 196 miles (315 km), but eschews many of the other car’s exposed exterior carbon in favor of painted parts.

While the exterior is a little more restrained, the same can’t be said about the cabin. It is dominated by California Poppy orange and Onyx Black leather as part of a $14,400 option package. As you’d imagine, there’s also plenty of carbon fiber.

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Laura Fryer, a veteran of the video game industry and one of the founding members of the original Xbox project, is sounding the alarm amidst the industry's shift toward all-digital games.

Fryer recently uploaded a new video to her YouTube channel in which she warns specifically against PlayStation's recent announcement that it's ending production of physical game discs starting in 2028 . She uses a story about her family's Rock Band tradition to make a point about the impermanence of digital-only games, explaining that she once spent "hundreds of dollars on Rock Band songs" only to lose them over a licensing issue. After her original Xbox died and was replaced by a newer model, she was unable to download the songs on her working console because they had been delisted. "Eventually, we just gave up," Fryer says, tragically. "We gave up on our favorite family game."

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've shared a similar experience with digital games over the years. Publishers have offered fully digital versions of games for decades now, and most purchases made on PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox storefronts don't come with any sort of physical token guaranteeing permanent ownership, but with PlayStation moving away from physical discs altogether, it's likely situations like Fryer's will become much more commonplace in the next console generation.

Fryer says her Rock Band story isn't just a "one-off technical glitch," but "the blueprint for what Sony is planning next. "So when people ask me what I think about Sony's recent announcement that they're going all digital, that's all I can think about."

Fryer also wades into the debate about physical's market share compared to digital , which some analysts say is as low as 10% physical vs 90% digital, but Fryer argues that the inclusion of digital-only games in those comparisons makes "digital look way more dominant than it actually is."

She also points to an old promotional video in which then-president of SIE Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida hypes up the PS4's ability to read offline discs when Xbox One's pre-launch plan was to make all games require an internet connection. These days, of course, things are different, with GTA 6 , arguably the biggest game of the century, essentially going all digital. This, in Fryer's view, opened the floodgates.

"Sony waited for Rockstar to make the first move, take the heat, and now they're going all-in to make this the new normal," she says.

Fryer also makes the convincing argument that PlayStation going discless isn't just about reducing production costs for new games and hardware, claiming that it's also about erasing the second-hand market and re-gaining complete control over its ecosystem. "All the major players; Sony, Microsoft, even Hollywood; they're all aligned here. Digital kills the used market and it stops the old library from competing with new games on the next console," she says.

Ultimately, Fryer says a digital future is likely "inevitable" due to convenience, but says even a company as trusted by gamers as Valve is prone to leadership changes that could potentially result in digital libraries like the ones on Steam becoming just as vulnerable as song collections on Rock Band.

"I admit, most of my Steam library is digital too, because I trust they won't pull the games," Fryer says. "But I worry about that, because platforms depend on good leadership. Gabe Newell will not run Steam forever, and we've seen from Xbox how fast priorities can shift when you get new leadership," she adds, seemingly referring to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's big "reset."

Wrapping up her argument against a digital-only marketplace, Fryer goes full circle with what she calls her "Rock Band warning:

"Digital is convenient until someone else decides you've had enough, and there are some games and movies where I will never have enough," she says. "Physical gives you real ownership, right? And in my case, physical would've protected those irreplaceable memories."

GamesRadar's Dustin agrees: PlayStation killing discs is bad for everyone, whether you care about physical games or not

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