sony is stopping disc releases for PS gamesyou know what that means
Believe it or not -- calls.(/v/ermin might disagree)
>>62434061So they're using GTA as the 800 lb gorilla to strong arm this through.There's literally no reason not to abandon consoles completely and go full PC at this point. And I was a diehard Sonybro a few years ago. Then one day a lightbulb clicked, no new gens to buy, no backwards compatibility issues, I can play all my games in one place, with superior graphics, forever.Yeah fuck this noise.
>>62434061Every company: >how can we gradually make our products worse?Why though?
>own nothing
>>62434061Does it mean that SSDs are going to be more expensive?Because if you don't know already, most of the playstation games are already "code discs", which means they don't even include the game and you can't play it without downloading a patch and has been like this for years.
>>62434061Seems like scraping the barrel for savings. Might boost some interner provider's numbers a bit? I dunno.
>>62434586when DEI retards are in management, they always do this, i never saw any manager focus on making product better, they always want to make it cheaper
short GME
>>62434061unironically invest in physical discsrare ps5 games, ideally ones taken down from store too (but they already pump fast)
>>62434731like that deadpool ps4 one they lost rights too, easy 10x in price
>>62434061>you know what that meansOH MY GLORP! THEY GOT RID OF THE HECKING DISCOPOPS!
>>62434620yes
>>62434061This is actually bullish. This means less cost to manufacture discs
>>62434082Fuck yeah bro let's switch to PC! All of those games have physical discs and all towers have disc drives!
>>62434712It's not DEI management you retard. It's literally capitalism and the need to increase profits every quarter. Browns have nothing to do with this.
>>62434061Lmao who the fuck still buys vidya in 2026. You have piracy. There's about 10,000 solid vidya to play over the past 40 years. Download an emulator and get on it faggots
>>62434082get all your roms and emulators and back it up and keep one offline emulator PC/laptop for the future.
>>62434737>just baghold the shitty $50 game for 10+ years to have that 1 greasy mystery meat mf trying to negrotiate it down to treedfiddy bro
>>62434731I threw away like 2 grand of ps3 game discs because I just don't care
>>62434864That's not capitalism tho, that's gov't regulation
Online games are easier to monetize. It's simple economics. Look how much money GTA online has made in the past decade selling DLC to kids.
>>62435107rip
>>62435164No anon. Government regulations are a good thing and help the consumer. Do you not remember when Apple was forced to drop their proprietary charging cables in favor of USB-C? That was government regulations that did that. Or don't tell me that you'd rather be forced to get new proprietary charging cables with every new phone you got?
>>62435322Government regulation is literally what forces companies to disregard investing in their employees and the long term in favor of chasing higher quarterly profits for their investors, which is what that post was a complaint about.
>>62435373Goverments USED to do that when they actually had taxes in the 70s and earlier, all the extra declared profits would just get taxed so the companies were forced to either spend it on themselves or give it away, and they spent it on themselves through reinvestment and employees.Then Reagan happened and "trickle down economics" was sold to the masses that if we just cut regulations, businesses will still spend on themselves instead of chasing profits. Cutting regulations led to heaps of shitty bad loans being spread out through the mortgage market causing the 08 collapse lol.You're a clown.Lol.
>>62434061> trends in consumer preference
>>62434061Consoles and gaymes on disc media is ancient games slop, nigga for goodness sake Stream released on pc like 25 years agoI haven't used physical media installs since the fucking early 2000sgames don't fit, updates don't fit, nothing fitsphysical media is pure shit for gamesearly consoles with cartridges and when games fit on a single cdrom was a different era>mah I wont own anything!fuck off physical copies if it's a real game, if it's live content games that can be pulled because it's on servers I don't care it's slop anyway, just play it enjoy the experience then realize life is futile and nothnigs lasts forever
>>62434843No dickhead, but if there's no disc anyway why the fuck not just switch to PC?
>>62435437Ok schlomo
>>62434061Sony:>invent multiple iterations of laser disc technology Also Sony:>abandon all forms of laser disc technology
>>62434061Bro's if you bought a ton of xenogears disks, you would be rich. Only a 25 year old!
>>62434082Damn Rockstar and Sony working behind the scenes?
>>62434061There goes the one thing consoles had over PC.Probably also an indicator that none of the games coming out after 2027 will be worth playing.
>>62434061The console itself is next, PS6 and Xbox Helix will be the last physical consoles, the next gen will just be cloud gaming. This also kills piracy, as no one will ever have physical access to the game data. They may have small console boxes to handle the streaming, but all the processing power will be on the servers.
>>62435107the fact you didnt take them for recycling or just give them to some kid on the street is why it’s good the goyim willown nothing
>>62434864>let's not improve the product to increase profits>let's hire more transqueens and jiggies who are too stupid to understand that we will axe them as soon as their pay increases, just let them cut the corners 1stI beg to differ.
>>62436793Not necessarily. But if the biggest game of the next 2 generations is going discless now we have a pretext.
