‘You will own nothing and you will be happy’
I’m tired of everything, FUCKING EVERYTHING, just getting gradually worse.
I’m not seeing the happy part tbh
You establish your own piracy hoard because there’s no point in playing along anymore.
Right on the heels of removing 500 movies from their platform people paid to be able to watch perpetually…
Wow, I just bought a fucking PS5 last month. I’m not happy about this. Obviously, if I could resell my digital copy after I beat it that’d be cool.
I could resell my digital copy after I beat it that’d be cool.
I highly doubt that want you to be able to do that
Oh, I know they’d never let that happen, that was mostly sarcasm sprinkled with the tiniest amount of wishful thinking.
You are fine, just enjoy it while it lasts. I’m not going to throw my PS5 into the fire either, but I will not buy their next console, nor will I buy their games from 2028
Exactly this. Now we just play the long…long…long waiting game until we’re able to properly jailbreak the PS5 (not on 5 year old firmware) so we can use the dang thing we own as we see fit.
My hope is that this will give a boost to console piracy again. There will be a huge demand
Yeah, there are currently plenty of games for me to catch up on and buy before the deadline, most notably that physical copy of Silksong coming out in October (?). I’m just annoyed because I waited THIS long to get one, this is my first PS, and I then read this announcement a month later. I told my wife that with this console, if I was gonna splurge on it, would not be full of digital games like our Switch, only physical copies. So, I’m glad I can use PS4 and PS5 discs and that they have a large library full of stuff for me to spend my time and money on, just a little peeved that they had to do this at this scheduled time. But hey, who knows, maybe the announcement leads to public backlash and they reconsider their plan to phase out physical games. I can dream.
The PS5 will continue getting games for quite some time, I imagine. The lack of physical media won’t stop most people from getting a PS6, but its price will. It will never have the install base the PS5 does, so their games will be cross-gen for years into the PS6’s life cycle just like with the PS4 and PS5.
Sony just killed PlayStation
Yup. Even Nintendo didn’t get rid of the cartridge. It’s like sure you save the physical costs and shipping ok. But the physical hold it in your hand-ness is magic. But it’s also passive advertising. I guess our carbon footprint will thank us tho.
I can’t believe that cartridges will end up outlasting discs.
a game collection on my shelf, one shelf for each generation of playstation. I don’t need any more shelves, apparently. My “collection” is complete
Somehow GameStop stock is up 6% for the week, despite this announcement basically dropping the floor out from under their entire business model.
They pivoted to merch stores awhile back. I’m pretty sure the selling games thing is just a side business
Stocks are either investments or a daily high for degenerate gamblers. GameStop is the second.
Game sales are just a fraction of Gamestop’s revenue now. The vast majority is collectibles and hardware sales.
Video game libraries aren’t as deep as musical libraries, but there are still too many decent older games for companies to feel secure in engaging in this sort of nonsense.
Yeah new games aren’t even that good anymore
That’s just untrue. There’s so much to play. Lots of gems out there.
I’m really just talking about new aaa titles. Like sure they are shiny but there really hasn’t been a fundamental brand new type of gameplay that totally changed the game like new games used to. I mean going from nes to snes was a huge leap. Snes to n64 even larger. But even beyond the graphics there just hasn’t really been a brand new game changing mechanic since fortnite. Maybe that’s on me for not playing baldurs gate 3 but still
I’m not talking about the indie studios they are doing great work
Yeah, remove the only alternative to the supreme capitalist monopoly which the PlayStation store essentially is.
I wish there was a service that let all consumers order a physical version of any game with all the latest patches available at the time it was purchased.
Best you can do is make it yourself via 🏴☠️.
Don’t buy a playstation. Easy.
Wasn’t Sony the one that said you’ll always be able to share games and resell games on PlayStation, after Xbox tried some shady shit?
/s because I know damn well it was them at the Xbox One announcement.
Sony has pretty much always been bad for gaming. I had a PS1 and PS2 when they were new. Got a PS3 after the PS4 was out, and I like it, but it does some dumb shit. Like how you sign into the console, and then you have to sign into PSN. Or how save games still use “blocks” or whatever. It’s just stupid for stupidity’s sake. That said, I like the PS3 more than the XB1 (for reference, PS3 is contemporary to the 360; XB1 is contemporary to the PS4 — so yes, I like the PS3 more than the one-generation-newer XB1. I do like the PS3. I wanted a PS4 and never got one. I resented the XB1, but the 360 was okay. I only have an XSX because they let me get it for $35 a month for 2 years, no interest. If you’re thinking that’s more than $500, you’d be right. Only $480 went to the console — I got it for $20 off. The rest went to 2 years of GamePass Ultimate at the $15/month price. And tax on the whole thing. Xbox All Access. They really should bring it back as high as they’re jacking the price of the XSX (and PS5). It was a good deal, and locks you into their service for 2 years. Always wished Sony had something similar — I wanted a PS5, and settled for the XSX.
One company does something that sucks for the users. Rival companies “omg we would never”. Consumers allow it. Rival companies “guess what fuckos now this is happening. We never said we would never lol”
I still have a PS2 and i wasn’t interested in any of the newer consoles and certainly won’t make consider buying a PS5 and if you are still stupid enough to trust Sony after they announced digital content deletion then you fucking deserve to lose your whole fucking library whenever they feel like it.
And we will play our old games with glee. And steam. Evidently the last beacon of gaming left.
I have nothing to play the discs on, anyway, so this completes my collection.
is this only for 1st party Sony games? I assume 3rd party devs can still sell their games on disc if they wanted to?
They’re basically saying the PS6 won’t have a disc drive.
No, PS5 games cannot be released on disc unless Sony approves it, and they will not approve any starting in 2028.
