https://www.gamefile.news/p/sony-drops-playstation-discs-2028-ps3-vita-stores-closingIt's over.
New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won’t be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.The move applies to all PlayStation games released from that point on, including those made by Sony and those released by third parties.The PlayStation group calls the change “a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs,” according to a PlayStation blog post reviewed by Game File in advance of its publication.As movies, TV and music have shifted from physical media to an age of downloads and streaming, Sony’s move could speed the demise of physical media in a gaming. The industry has offered consumers games via cartridges, cassettes, floppy discs, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays across a 50-year stretch.Sony has been reporting to investors in recent years that PlayStation games have been increasingly purchased as downloads, not as discs. The most recent figures show nearly four in five purchases of full games for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 were purchased digitally in the past year.Stats like that may cause today’s news to carry an air of the inevitable. But Sony’s declaration for 2028 is still likely to produce a shock, as the biggest gaming platform on the planet that uses game discs leaves them behind.Sony is committing to still selling games in physical retailers even after they drop discs in 2028. Just how those games will be sold—in boxes with codes inside, as cards marked with digital redemption codes—is unclear.Digital games will also continue to be sold in the online PlayStation Store.New games released for PlayStation consoles prior to January 2028 will be unaffected by the policy change, Sony says. That means the PS5 games of 2027, be they a new Madden, a new God of War, a new Call of Duty, a new Sly Cooper (one can dream?), would still potentially be offered on disc.
>>742334556Sony’s timeline for a transition to a no-disc era will also spin up more speculation about the timing and configuration of Sony’s next-generation console, the probable PlayStation 6.“This pretty much guarantees that PS6 won’t arrive until 2028 at the earliest,” Piers Harding-Rolls, senior games research analyst at Ampere Analysis tells Game File. Harding-Rolls also concludes from today’s news that “the base version of a PS6 will not include a physical media drive,” as Sony looks to keep costs down on the device.Sony itself is saying nothing about the PS6 today: not its timing, nor how it might or might not support internal or external disc drives in order to run disc-based PS4 and PS5 games, should the console be backwards compatible.Industry support for games being released on physical media has been waning. As has consumer interest in them.PC games effectively went all-digital years ago, thanks to the popularity of playing games through Steam and other digital storefronts.The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that kept much of the global population home helped shift shopping patterns toward downloads. Sony’s own data shows PlayStation game downloads being an uncommon consumer choice a decade ago and now becoming the norm.On consoles, physical media has been in such decline that Sony and Microsoft both launched their current gen Xbox Series and PS5 consoles in 2020 with cheaper versions that lacked disc drives.In early 2024, Phil Spencer, then head of Xbox, told me that ““[w]e ship games physically and digitally, and we’re really just following what the customers are doing.” He added that the game industry had become an outlier in still supporting disc-based entertainment, even as movies and TV have bailed on discs in favor of downloads and steaming
>>742334604 “Gaming consoles themselves have kind of become the last consumer electronic device that has a drive. And this is a real issue, just in terms of the number of manufacturers that are actually building drives and the cost associated with those. And when you think about cogs that we’re going to go put in a console—and as you have fewer suppliers and fewer buyers—the cost of the drive does have an impact.”Last year, the Nintendo’s Switch 2, which uses cartridges rather than discs, introduced the concept of game-key cards, which are physical media that contain no game, just a prompt for a download.Even disc-based games aren’t what they once were, now frequently containing just stubs of games rather than the whole thing. The website Does It Play has tested over 3000 games and found that, for example, that the disc version of this year’s hit 007: First Light, only contained the game’s first mission, with the rest needing to be downloaded.Beyond all that, last week brought the news that Grand Theft Auto VI, likely the biggest game launch this decade, will debut for PS5 and Xbox Series without a disc-based version.
>>742334512You guys know what's coming next right? PLAY HAS NO LIMITS
>>742334512>B-B-BUT WHAT ABOUT GAME KEY CARDS????
>>742334512>ps5 has so little games that they had to dig out some AIslop shovelware for the shotlmao
Now you can't keep your games if you say the N word or criticize Israel, licenses revoked with your ban unlike disc based games.
I love this humiliation ritual. Every time one side of the console war gets cocky they get btfo even harder in return a few days later.
>>742334812I can't wait to see what fuck up xbox does to one up this one, seems like sony and microsoft are trying to outdo each other
>>742334512Nintendo won.
>>742334812It's just a pendelum swing going from Sony to Xbox with it rarely stopping in the middle for Nintendo.
>>742334512TOTAL SONY DEATH LMAO
>>742334875>looks at gamekeycardsnobody won but the consumer sure lost
Based. I'm gonna be saving a lot of money from 2028 onwards.
Digitalchads we can’t stop winning
so games will be cheaper then.... right??
>>742334604>Sony’s timeline for a transitionThat about sums it up Nintendo wonAlso a good opportunity for Xbox to capitalize by pushing physical, but they probably wont
well ps5 will be my last playstation
So Sony is actually going to abadon physical like everyone expected, good job.I'm sure your fans will give 0 pushback as usual because you can still play your ball and gun games.>>742334943You can resell GKC, can't do shit for pure digital bullshit.Not to mention it's the faggot devs that keep releasing the games on it like Square Enix
Every single 80 euro release i've dodged by buying physicalI used to save up to €15 like that, this will just make me not buy games at launch anymore
Remember to bend over and say "Thank you, Sony!"
>>742334512Fake and Ga->it's realHoly shit
>>742335071Here if you want a direct link: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/
>>742334512This is why zoomers are going retro. They will own something while newgenfags will own nothing and be happy >But I pirate!Cool that is most people. But you only pirate because you missed out when physical games were worthless and you still own nothing
>ps3 and ps vita store is also shutting down in 2027jfc
I despise them for it but it is completely logical, ever since the ps5 gen started digital/physical has shifted to 90/10blame your fellow gamer for this one
>>742335130I was looking for the actual source on that site I never heard of. Seen the egghead writer ava before tho.
All the brick and mortar stores must be shitting themselves right now. If they can't resell games that's a huge chunk of their business gone, they might not have any games to sell at all depending on how this goes.
>>742334973lol
>>742335207Stephen Totilo is one of the biggest game journalists. PS blog post about the PS3 and Vita stores closing while I'm at it: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita/
Sony speedrunning bankruptcy any%
>physical games dying in 2028>PS3 and Vita store dying in most marketsyep, I think Sony is dying.
>>742335209they are still gonna sell a box with a code in it
That settles it, I will not be buying a PS6. If I can't own the game on a disc I might as well stick with PC.
this confirms the ps6 coming out in 2027
>>742334512OH NO NO NO NO NO NOAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>742335315it's not just sony, it's the entire western AAA spaceand all these retards who can't properly run a company are now offloading costs unto the customer base, convinced they will stay loyal anyway
>>742334512I'm done with Playstation, PS5 will be my last console.
Well boys, i think thats it for this hobby. The series x is the last (new) console i will ever own. Unless my idiot brother tries to buy the helix or ps6. Nah, im just gonna get him on pc.
>>742334943retard.
inb4 they put a new jak and daxter on ps6 so I'll have to buy it anyway
>>742335194TOTAL SNOY DEATH
In other words, the ps6 handheld is real and doesn't use physical media
>>742334973Your license will be $100 forever because there will be no competition from used copies
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/Well shit, it's real.There was also a little notice about the PS3 and Vita on the same page.https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita/And there goes the stores for those consoles.I do hope they actually stick to this like how Nintendo has because the shitposting around it has become absurd.
>>742334512what the fuck is a plippeteer
>>742335315the entire westoidal kike-owned "videogame" (read: kike propaganda) industry is collapsing, and it's beautifulnow i know how the romans felt while watching rome burn and celebrating it, very much deserved
>>742335543or you could just stop being a retard
>>742335621Puppeteer anon.Do you not see the puppet?
The cost of going digital-only won't be passed onto the consumer, and Sony's digital storefront is historically fucking garbage for discovering games that aren't released within the current year.The only reason I bought physical was so I owned the game, and could skip length downloads. I have no reason to not just buy on Steam at this point if Sony forces digital-only on PS6.
>>742335603it better be a handheld but I won't be surprised if its just a box like the Series S/Steam Machine
>As movies, TV have shifted from physical mediaNo they haven't faggots
>>742334512What's the blue disc with the EDF-looking dude on it?
>>742335280>game journalists.
>>742335689People prefer digital. >>742335752They obviously did.
>>742335612And watch how every normalfag will go>ITZ BEEN LIEK 20 YEARS MOVE ON YOU BOOMERSfailing to ever understand the implications and how its basically pennies for them to keep the stores up.
>>742335752Yeah physical movie options are better than ever. The irony.
eventually you will only be able to rent games
sega should come back and make a console
>>742335628Is this why faggots like Oasis have been constantly encroching to take out the easten side?
>>742335912That's what a game license is. A long rental. It's already been codified in law as such.
>>742335756THE 地球防衛軍2(SLPM-62652)https://www.ebay.com/itm/395812689880
>digital games: steam =D>digital games: sony =(make it make cents
>>742334512HAHAHAHAHAHA SÒY NIGGERS GOT GAPED AND RAPED
>>742335937yes, that is precisely whythe irony is that all their time and effort spent on this sisyphean task is only hastening their downfall
This is the sign of a declining economy.
>>742336036It took YEARS before people finally started liking SteamSony's store is still ass so they have a lot of catching up to do if they want us to buy their next box
>>742335937What is it with these freaks? Do these people have any geniuine interests in life, any love for any artform?
It's been so much non-stop news for Sony and Xbox for 6 days straight, I think I'm getting to the point where I'm just numb to all of it, it's just too much, too quick.
>>74233622680% of Playstation users are already buying fully digital, Anon
>>742336236Anon they are jews
>>742336071you already know that baldy is going to be extra melty on thursday
>>742336036steam is based and snoy is gay retarded nigger kikes, simple ass, retardーくん
SONY ARE YOU OK
>>742336036Physical discs on PC has always been a crapshoot.Depending on when you bought a game on PC you may or may not be able to reuse the CD key, or their may be a finite number of activations and other bullshit like that. It's not like on console where you just put the disc in and play, on PC you can have the disc and the disc can be worthless because the keys are exhausted or in use so eventually most people gave up on that shit and went digital.
>>742336249It's almost as if the elites hand down their judgment and their orders are carried out ubiquitously at the same time.
>>742336236No, they have to act like parasites, suck every last drop they can get, and throw away the husk before going off and doing it all over again.It's all about short term gains while killing every bit of good will a company had.
>>742336293Their store still sucks
>>742336036I consider digital as me giving money to the devs, like how you'd give to a street performer.It's not ownership, if I want to own a game I buy the artbook for it (soundtrack is on youtube so no need to buy it).
>>742335628>Sports and yearly shooters still sell fine>Japanese companies besides Nintendo and Capcom also have problems, look at SquareNot to mention that Sony is still a Japanese company in the end.
>>742336293But jard drives were cheap up until 2024. Now you literally have to preoreder a new disk because nothing is in stock anymore and what is left is scraps at 3 time the old price
>>742336609I think the era of cheap PC hardware is over. We're back to crazy 90s and earlier prices now.
>>742335132>because you missed out when physical games were worthless>
>>742334875>>742334883>>742334993>>742335063>>742335559You're gonna be defending this the moment Nintendo does the exact same thing a few years down the line.
>>742336752Depends what you're looking for. PS4 and PS3 era games are still pretty cheap, but anything older has its values inflated by collectorfags
>>742336448activist investors are real parasites who are just looking to flip a company to (((private equity)
>>742336770People online barely tolerate GKC as it is, what makes ytou think they are gonna defend the exact moment they kill off physical for good?
>>742336770Fuck no I won't.I'll stick to my backlog if all these companies stop releasing physical games.I have enough unplayed games on my shelves for rest of my life.
>>742336770direction brain AHH nigga
If the PS6 is digital-only, will it not even have a legacy disc drive for backwards compatibility with physical games?
>>742334512Just means my videogame collection continues to go up in value. Sweet.
>>742336950It would be a super dick move if they didn't do backward compatability.I would expect a dock that comes with a disc drive if they are doing portable.
>>742335209They already accounted for this years ago. Even Gamestop is already over 50% merch
>>742336950I'm sure they'll sell a $100+ UHD drive add-on that they'll quietly retire a few years after launch >>742336984Old game values are insane. I have some PS1+PS2 games that I paid $20 for that are now worth near $200 (Silent Hill 2...)
>>742334512I stopped buying physical in 2009 when i went fully into Steam
>>742336528>It's not ownershipI own every digital game I ever bought, and the only reason the government might disagree with that is because retarded cattle like you think "licenses" are a real thing. If you stopped doing that, studio heads would go to jail for taking away your "license".
>>742335471Did Microsoft make similar announcements and I missed it?
snoytrannies deserve to get shit on the head.
>>742337209Xbox itself is on the verge of shuttering completely
>>742335194Play has limitsFuck the player.
I was close to pulling the trigger on a PS5 last year and then they released a flood of BS news. It's one thing after another with these companies so I said "fuck it". You don't have to participate. I skipped Xbox 360, PS4/Xbone and now PS5 only reason I have a Series X is because someone gifted it to me and I only buy games for it on deep sales.
>>742336307They're Japanese anon
When should I sell all my old games from older consoles? I have about 150 ps3 games alone.
>>742335030>So Sony is actually going to abadon physical like everyone expectedPlaystation is, Sony's other entertainment sectors will continue to shit out millions of Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs like they've always had. Hell, Sony's music division started making vinyl records recently because there's a good market for it.This is just Playstation once again suffering from the $6.2 Billion USD loss incurred from buying Bungie and having to find more things to kill off in order to offset the costs.>Why don't they just kill off Bungie?Because their shareholders aren't going to allow it. You can't just buy a multibillion dollar lemon tree and then chop it down without seeing a cent of profit. It doesn't help that Jim Ryan gave them a lot of power internally before taking his golden parachute out the window.
>>742337295Closing down studios they paid top dollar for is retarded, but it doesn't directly affect you or me the way taking away the physical option while closing digital stores does.
>>742336950I think they will, both because the amount of poorfag third worlders still only playing ps4 is like half the psn population, but also for people who use their console for blu ray movies. It will definitely be sold seperately though.
>>742334512The gaming industry will crash once people realise there are literal thousands of good cool games that you've never played it doesnt even have to be pixelshit from the 80s pick from 2003 and 2009 and there's PLENTY to play
>>742336036digital games in a PC enviroment allows you to:>freely mod shit>pirate and copy the same game ad nausem>actually get to keep the fucking gameDigital on console will basically become a license fee that they'll be able to take away from you if you don't play your copy enough lmao
>>742337206Discs are a flimsy piece of foil paper, they're not worth owning.
>>742337638Nah, ball and gun games will keep consoles relevantIndies will just stay on PC
>>742336036You can get banned for saying bigger in a game and keep your game licenses on Steam.If you say nigger on PSN, you lose all your game licenses
>>742335612>There was also a little notice about the PS3 and Vita on the same page.Typical snoy strategy of underhandedly throwing out the horrible news while everyone's focused on something else. They've been doing the same thing with PS+ price increases since the PS4 era, except back then they had good things to distract people with instead of now where they only have bad things.
>>742334512>by 2028 playstation will have no games to remember it bykek
Say the line, /v/
Damn. I think there are a few PS3 games and Vita games that are not available anywhere else. 3d dot game heroes is only available on PS3, so once they take down the store, there is no other way to buy it aside from a physical copy.
>>742334512Maybe they'll start selling key-discs
>>742336036>make it make centsokay>want to play game from 2005>go on a website download it because its not being sold anymore>if theres issues can patch it>can copy it to a disk can copy it on a usb can take it to my friends house and play it there now I want to play an old game on the ps5!>go on psn store>oops sony wants you to pay $30 for this old ass game :)>oh oops sorry uh you cant install any patches for this old ass game either >oh oops the licensing ran out no more downloading it :)there if you're still confused ask an adult to explain it better to you slowly
>>742336236>What is it with these freaks?Jews
>>742337729Let's hope it stays that way after Gaben dies/retires and Valve goes public
>>742337810unc is sithmaxxing
Press F
>>742335308Only trannies care about "collecting" games. Other people have actual hobbies aside from spending money.
>>742337979meme stock weirdos will keep this turd afloat
So it's official, ps5 is my last playstation console. It has been a ride frens. This is my off ramp.
>>742337718except normies are already getting exhausted of the shitty recent releases and complaining "there are no good games to play anymore!"
>>742336950The EU won't allow it, hell Sony's already being sued for making it retardedly impossible to buy games in-stores in certain European countries.
So...they can just delete our games if they so choose...and keep you from playing your games ala online only or if they deem your account banworthy...?
>>742337992A lot of people love spending money. You don't want to alienate that audience. And they want to get something real for their money too
>>742338034No, ebay will keep them afloat.
>>742336036does steam sell consoles with a disc reader for extra bucks?
>>742334512AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAnother day with sony bad news.are you ok, snoysisters?
>>742337881Let's add on top of it that some of the older games are still a broken buggy mess like Ape Escape 2 which STILL HASN'T BEEN FIXED ON PS5.
>>742336770>just two more weeks!!!
>>742335198This is literally a propaganda point used to justify decisions like this. It's genuinely only 90:10, even post commie coof, if you include the sales of dlc or every free download of fortnite as "digital purchases".
>>742337519Hold. They will start to moon in the 30s
>turn what used to be an interactive and real life experience into sitting on your couch like a faggot and clicking buttons quietlyAt least I still have my memories for now
>>742334512I thought the PS6 was going to have its disc drive sold separately but I didn't think Snoy would go scorched earth on physical.
>>742338487This. 7th gen crap is still early. PS3 in particularly is still relatively cheap aside from a few outliers like Armored Core.
>>742336036Having physical ps5 games you can lend or collect for the shelf differentiates it from a Steam game. Not everyone cares about those things but they are a differentiating factor. However now because ps5 becomes digital-only, then its just a worse pc since you cant mod or pirate your digital games. Digital console games also tend to not be as deeply discounted as steam games for players who buy instead of pirate.Basically the niche reasons some few people had for a ps5 are now gone. There is no redeeming point to the system anymore. Console gaming died with 7th gen and now the PS4/PS5 reanimated zombie is dead too.
>>742335628This. I hope the ESG kike funded studios choke and die off the fumes from the faggot rainbow ugly games they kept pushing.
>>742336249Consolesharts on suicide watch lmao>>742337519>>742336919>>742336984"My hobby? Spending money" LMAO AT YOUR LIFE FEMANON
>>742338487>>742338636itll be interesting to see what happens to the collectorfag market when the economy tanks
I don't care. I'm done with consoles. I will completely switch over to piracy and not look back. I always bought and supported all my favorite games, and this is the thanks for it... I won't buy a single digital game. Everything will be pirated
>>742334512Here we go. I knew this day would come as the stats showed every goy on Earth would find that paying a higher price for a digital download was somehow easier and faster than receiving a game in the mail. What a bunch of fucking stupid goyim cattle.RIP to all retailers as well, if they didn't become a retro pawnshop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA At this point it's really funny to go back.
>>742338652very true apu
Calling it now. You won't be able to purchase a PS6 outright. It'll be a monthly payment like a phone. Probably $79.99. PS+ will be mandatory/baked in with the console price
>>742335886Well that didn't take long did it? >>742336939They really are predictable.
>you will own nothing and you won't even be happy
>>742338131yes
>>742335315its incredible how out of touch /v/ (and /vg/) is. no one is dying. sony is doing what has been the norm for the entertainment industry and pc gaming for more than a decadepeople will not stop playing games because physical will no longer exist. very few people even play physical to begin with and even if all of them stopped buying shit sony would still be doing just fine.yall are a bunch of boomers, times change. im sure there were a couple of retards like you that would complain because their cassettes got replaced by disks or mobile fags that complained about the lack of physical keyboard.>inb4 sony shillmy last console was a ps3, have been gaming on pc ever since
>>742339451That's what Microsoft's next Xbox will be. A mere dongle+controller that charges you $40/mo to stream games. Amazon and Google were just too early to the market for this.
>>742336036sony removes your purchases and do not refund. them.
>>742334856xbox is just going to die and be scrapped for parts
>>742338925Wtf happened 2 months ago? There's been so much bad news in console land that I can't remember.
>>742334512I won't buy a console that can't take physical media. Guess I'm going to become a tendy now to play my fightan. Bing bing wahoo.
>>742336770did you miss all the threads shit talking GKCs
>>742335605price is also driven by demand, not only competition. if no one is buying the games at $100 then the price will naturally drop
this is the end my only friend the end.
>>742339989Yeah, that's why discs on Amazon dropped to 40 bucks within weeks while store was still 80 and why they want no more discs.
>>742339692I think Sony will actually still sell you hardware to run games locally. B you're right that the next Xbox will be cloud streaming only and if you want to play locally they'll say "get a windows PC lol"
>>742339826PSN 30-Day DRM check
I mean, every consolefag on the planet who's not exclusively a Nintendofag just went out and dropped $100 USD on a digital-only GTA 6, so I think this is just Sony realizing that the cattle genuinely do not care and will gladly drop money on digital-only console games, so there's no point in producing physical disks anymore.As for me, I'll stick to my piracy.
>>742340194If gta would sell that well they wouldn't report on the numbers some amalyst predicted months ago but giving you the actual sales.
>>742334512You will own nothing and you will be happy
>just download this 100Gb game browhatever, i'll just replay chrono trigger another 100 times
>>742340158Oh yeah. People are insane if they think Sony won't use that eventually.
>>742340289It doesn't matter what the numbers are, you can just look at the top-seller on PSN and in pretty much every country, it's the $100 digital-only version of GTA 6.
>>742334556>Sony is committing to still selling games in physical retailersanyone who buys empty boxes deserve the rope.
>>742340560>top seller Rockstar paid sony for a homescreen add, first time I saw this. I think they might have paid for the top seller spot, too... because you know... there isn't an alternative to the ps store for digital games and they can basically lie if given enough money.
>>742337257this.
>>742340750Look man, this cope is getting pathetic.Consolefags have spent the last 15+ years bragging about how their platform is the simple plug-and-play platform for retards, I don't know why you'd pretend that those retards suddenly aren't retarded enough to gladly and willingly pay $100 for a digital-only release.This is literally the audience of braindead goyim that you bragged about cultivating, stop pretending this isn't what you wanted.
>>742340750Dude GTA V has sold 230 million copies. Why the fuck would they need to lie about numbers?
>>742337257t. Vince.
>>742340194Not every game is GTA VI.
>>742339989Steam is full of thousands of full-priced games nobody buys lol
>>742340873>>742340931Still not buying gta6 btw.
>>742340980It doesn't matter because every AAA game will have braindead cattle willing to drop money on it, because that is the primary console userbase.
>>742339989this shit has never worked ever
>>742338697im not a collector. I just buy games to play them and never bother selling them or trading them in. I dont collect shit on purpose.
>>742342158If you collect something you're a collector by definitionIf your hobby is collecting, your hobby is spending moneyOnly women spend money as a hobbyI don't make the rules, lay off the onions
>>742340426Anon, even india has 5g internet (source: gemini)
>>742343192Well yeah, how else is everything going to be outsourced to them?
>>742340873consolefags really are retarded too, have you tried to read forums about people troubleshooting basic issues for xbox or playstation? it's fucking infuriating. I remember when I first got Elden Ring it was on PS5 and I was complaining that the game didn't run at a consistent 60FPS, got tons of replies calling me an idiot saying "buhhh youre supposed to set it to performance mode... moron..." as if I the performance mode running at 50 wasn't what I was complaining about. When I told them it was set to that and that the Performance mode was what I was complaining about, they responded "it runs at 60 on my PS5 maybe its a you problem :)"actual ignoramuses
Is GTA VI going to be the last gasp of the western AAA games industry before the whole thing just implodes?
>>742343657GTA6 is the first true AAAA game
>>742340426I feel your pain. I had internet speed identical to that until like 2022 when they brought proper internet to my area.
>>742343516>"it runs at 60 on my PS5 maybe its a you problem :)"To be fair this is an answer you have a 90%chance to also run into on this board regardless of it being someone on console or PC.
>>742342786Well I mean what was I supposed to do? Just trade in a game instantly after beating it? I was always too lazy to bother. I didnt set out ot collect games. I bought them to play them but was too lazy to trade them in.
>>742334812I believed in that, but Xbox has been eating so much shit so frequently that I genuinely don't believe they can stand up anymoreThat and Sony fans are rabid dogs
>>742334512>uncharted lost legacy>sly 4>cooking companionwtf is this selection of garbage
>>742339989No retard, there are tons of ancient games on Steam that never get good discounts because the devs almost never fucking put it on sale.
>>742336770>brand wars faggotyou must be over 18 to post here
https://odysee.com/@MyAwesomeChannel:069/full-nigger-cattle-ultimatum:ehe was 10000% in the right
>>742343516>crying about a 10 fps difference Consolefags really are fucking retarded.
>>742335973Oh, so it literally was EDF, just the OG.
>>742343516Ya can't troubleshoot consoles, tard
>>742344387back in my day we played 3d games in 480i and an unstable 30fps and we LIKED it
>>742343657That and OOT remake, best two go out with a bang and return to monke times (retro)
So, when games get delisted due to license expiring they're just lost media then?
>>742346164If its anything like Steam you'll still be able to download it if you "own" it but it won't be available for sale
>>742340117>>742341001>>742341653>>742343962the only game i know that never goes on sale is factorio and rightfully so because its goated. every ubislop and ea game is 50% down from launch in about 2 months from releasei do not know of those magical games you speak of that stay at launch price indefinitely. you must be console toddlers. thats not how things work on pc
>>742347000Didn't the devs increase the price of Factorio awhile back while adding nothing to justify it other than "I need more money" ?
>Let's stop selling physical games>On the one platform that gets hacked every week
>>742347137It probably went out of early access which is an incredibly arbitrary milestone these days that devs use to charge "full price"
>>742347137factorio should be worth 60 dollars minimum to you if youre into the kind of gameplay it offers. you can get literally thousands of hours of gameplay out of it. the fact that the devs had it priced so low for so long was an anomaly. also the fact that they piss off trannoids et al by merely existing will never not be amusing to me
but the caco said ps6 will be retrocompatible with every single disc from past ps consoles...
>>742349396Just gotta pay $300 for the disc drive add-on to play only games Sony also has a digital license to let you play via BC. Also this drive won't play Bluray Movies either.
>>742334512AHHHHHHHHHHH
i am masturbating furiouslygod i love seeing niggers suffer
>corpo has total control over how and what you consume>you don't own nothing>pro-consumer as a word is unknown>there's no agency for the consumer>corpo gets to control when and how you can access "your" itemsyep, it's dystopia time
Man I know he accumulated some bad karma but to the point that he killed off physical media on Playstation? This is ridiculous
Will resale value for physical games go up in the next decade so? I have 100s of games just left on shelves and shit and I've wanted to get rid of them for years but the resale value for most of them is so low that I can't be bothered
>>742334512>Pioneers disc technology three times over>Gives up on it entirelyFuckers
>>742352161>So low I can't be botheredI literally doubt that unless it's all sports and shovelware kinect and PlayStation move games
>>742336036>On consoles, you have digital games that are sold exclusively by one store; they have DRM, and you have to use an account to share them. You have to abide by the rules set by that company (Sony), because they’re the only ones selling the games>On PC, you have games sold by many different stores (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, etc.). Sooner or later, they all become DRM-free, so you can share them with anyone, download them anywhere, and save them anywhere. If you don’t like the rules of a store like Steam, you can switch to GOG, or simply download or buy them outside of those platforms—even officially, as is the case with many Japanese games—so no one is forced to get the game from a single source and be subject to its anti-consumer rules.What you guys don’t understand is the immense value of DRM-free games, and that a PC is an open platform, and as long as you don’t understand that, you’ll always make those stupid comparisons like the one you’re making right now.
>>742352330only GOG does drm free gamessteam and epic both have their own DRM on the games even if the games don't have denuvo etc
>>742336770Anon they've already been defending it. Don't need to wait.
>>742334512Aren't 80% of games sold digital already?
The access to physical media is literally the only thing console had over PC. It's really funny how they've just signed their own death warrant. The only way they can salvage this is by releasing a PC storefront and giving up on making consoles altogether.
>>742334512>Pulls out of Steam>Pulls out of physical mediaYeah Sony is straight suicidal
>>742352783They literally just made a press release that boiled down to "We will rape our existing users into submission"
>>742352417Steamless or Goldberg. Any other failed gotchas?
>>742343657Yup. It's the game's industry "Endgame". Fitting.
>>742352279Well these are just the PS3 games. I have games from various consoles going back to the NES. But nothing here from the PS3 is really worth anything.
>>742351580based
>>742337209Its very likely that xbox will do the same. And i already barely play anything new on my series x.
>>742353159You should absolutely hold on to them until the ps6 releases. People are gonna go back to the past like never before
>>742353103Those are called cracking tools, just pirate the games at that point because what even is your argument.
>>742353267>no argument, just tearsi win
>>742352936kek yeah what the fuck are they banking on making them money
>>742353263People will go back to PS2 and prior but stuff from the ps3/360 will never really have much value outside of rare jap shit.
one day all gaming be fully in cloud, so enjoy having flies on your system
I think at this point I would unironically rather get the Steam box than a PS6.
Post your ABSOLUTE state of face RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
>People keep blaming SteamWhy are people so dishonest? Seriously, why? Is it really that hard to point fingers at GTAVI and blame it as the final domino for Sony trying this shit? Why do people pretend that Steam is the entirety of PC or that most games have some kind of DRM preventing you from burning an installer of whatever game you want? Or that gray markets supposedly don't exist for PC games or that there aren't ways to circumvent "region locks" and untranslated games? Does it suck that I can't go to a physical retailer and pick up a PC game in a PC box with physically printed manuals? Yes, 1000%. But I don't pretend that the infrastructure didn't solve the problems in the trade or things were lost entirely.Sony is effectively TRYING to kill piracy, the gray market, competitor sales, and insure games stay within their regions. There are, at the moment, no ways to bypass any of this digitally on a PS5 and the incoming PS6. If a game comes out and its 100$, exclusive to the Sony ecosystem right now, there is nothing you can do to circumvent it.And people say the two ecosystems are similar. What the fuck?
>>742353398Absolutely false. There are so many classic racing/extreme sport games that will never be rereleased in a non raped state due to licensing hell. The only way to play them will be on disk on 360/ps3
>>742353332you literally said games on steam and epic become eventually drm free, which they don't. you then moved goalposts that they do if you crack them, which isn't in line with your original claim. just admit you were wrong, but i think you might be nigger enough that you will indeed triple down this because doubling down wasn't enough.
>>7423533761500$ PS6 (no games)
I bought Yakuza: Infinite Wealth on PS5 new physically for under $11 last year on sale, the cheapest it's been on PSN has been is $17.99. Having a monopoly on prices with one digital storefront will have you paying more in every scenario on Playstation now.
HURRY UP SHIFT UP
>>742352936They are only going to lost 100k million Yen annually not that big of a deal
Everything that comes out flops but since people have been waiting 13 years for one game they decide to kill discs. Thank you Trump
>>742353576You are talking to two different people
>>742334512Where's everyone who had a meltdown over Nintendo's game key cards at? I better see them dragging Sony through the coals for this... Or is it perhaps okay when Sony does it?
Cool, thanks for saving me $1000. I will not be purchasing a PS6.
>>742352685the actual number is 100%
Cartridges outlasted Discs. Funny.
Finally, the industry will crash and we'll go back to gaming being a small niche where people who actually like making games develop games for people who actually like playing games. Movie games will be remembered as a relic of the "dark ages" of gaming.
>>742353527
>>742334665Can't wait for them to delete thousands of games just for us to be able to buy again! Exciting!
>>742346959If I recall, didn't it recently come out that Sony has digital licenses expire and they expect to run an online check every once in a while to insure items stay accessible?
>>742334512I just won't buy anything sony then, cheesebags
>>742353963The face that crashed a multibillion dollar corporation.
>>742353376gta6, since gta5 online literally pays all their bills currentlyyes, even despite all the untold billions that they're burning annually chasing the live service fortnite/gtao dragon, their heads are still kept above water by the disgusting degenerate nigger paypigs buying shark cards while playing nigger online on niggerstation
>>742334512Based on consumer data btwYOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES
>>742353969The fact that they announced this literal days after the news of the just removing shit from people's accounts is such a hilarious level of tone deaf I genuinely cannot believe someone didn't tell them that maybe they should have waited a bit. They're literally telling consumers that they can and will without warning just delete games from your account and there's literally nothing you can do about it.
>>742335198Digital is 90/10****when you account for PS Plus downloads
I'm so tired of the conspiracy theorists being 100% right about everything.
>>742334512What is even the point of consoles that don't have physical? Might as well just play on a real computer.
NO ERA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>742334512and now we get absurd prices with little sales because retailers are going to offload code in boxes ASAP, Sony will see there's no demand from retails and they shelfwarm hard, and we're screwed. Their sales are terrible, and we know for a fact they do pricing based on your shopping habits which means you won't be getting deals at all.I knew it was going to happen eventually, it's just a shame it's this soon. They will never match Steam sales because it's a monolopoly, and their own personal sales are usually complete ass compared to physical ones. They also take forever to drop.
>>742336770I literally didn't buy a Switch 2 on day 1 when it was the smart thing to obviously do BECAUSE of the stupid controversy with the cartridges. As far as I can tell, being a current owner of the Switch 2 has not exactly led to a time where the library, as small as it is, had decent sales.
>>742336381I think around this time it became really obvious that they've just gone all in on being scumbags. There was not a single justifiable reason for this shit. In fact I'm very sure it was illegal BEFORE they and grocery stores were attempting to pull it off.
>>742353556>Does it suck that I can't go to a physical retailer and pick up a PC game in a PC box with physically printed manuals?no it doesn't, fuck physical retailers and fuck pc games in a box with printed manuals, clearly you do not remember just how DOGNIGGERSHIT those days truly were because you are 20 years removed from them nowbut i rememberi remember the horrori will never miss those dogshit niggerdays
>>742336036You can copy the game files on PC and play it on whatever you want. When you get a new GPU the game automatically runs and looks better.Console files are locked to the system it is downloaded on and then they sell you upgrades when they release a new console
Who cares. Microsoft is stopping production of physical consoles next quarter.
>>742354032Karma is a bitch.
>>742354164yo teach, this anon's watching football!!
>>742353576games on steam are already drm-free, the only games with drm are the games withn3rd party nigger drm baked into them like denuvo, fuck off you dumb nigger retard
>>742352685We saw the Insomniac leaks and huge chunks of their first-party games sold primarily physically, not digitally, sometimes as high as 70% if I remember right. Even Shawn Layden said it would be completely retarded to drop the physical market based on what he knew about the internal structure of Sony and selling games because we are still not at a point where everyone has good internet in the US let alone other countries, and many people use these things off the grid or on spotty grids like oil rigs, military bases, innawoods, on farms where satellite is their only option, etc. So Sony is fine with just losing all those sales I guess.
>>742353891yamauchi the goat predicted this
I'm glad that this push for a lack of ownership has also coincided with all the new games being so bad that there's no reason to own them anyway. Everything good can also be pirated easily.
>>742354304I'm not sure what you mean. I've picked up a couple of PC games but yes, I was too young to establish a large collection. I got Morrowind GOTY, the CS 1.6 box, and Guild Wars with its expansions. I don't recall ever having issues with them. The issue with PC games is that they no longer really tend to be hardware profiled or have a guaranteed gold version because of patch culture, so it makes physical media redundant since the game on the disc is 1.0 when the version you probably want to play is 1.7 or something. Either way, I'm curious why you think physical media sucked beyond those two things.
>>742354170>muhnawpollyalways knew you were an illiterate ESL retarded niggerfaggot, but thanks for your screencappable confirmation as such, i shall be putting it to good use in the future
>>742353527UnsurprisedUnbotheredHappyIn my lane playing SNES/Genesis
>>742354383>games on steam are already drm-freeno they are not you dumbass gorilla nigger
>>742334512playstation has been dead since the ps4 clearly stopped getting anything worth of not around 2016-2017
>>742354651They don't allow any other storefronts on their machine. It's a walled garden. You are subject to their specific storefront to get anything. Apple literally lost a lawsuit from Epic because of this.
>>742334512Video game spoilers are about to disappear. BASED
>>742353576A lot of games on Steam run without Steam being installed, and like 95% of the ones that don't are just trying to connect to the Steam features like the achievements which is bypassed by a single DLL file. It's not really a crack and it's not really DRM because it's not meant to stop you from playing the game.
>>742334943This. Fanboys rather eat shit and allow a company to get away with something (they will double down on later) just to justify their tribadism.
>>742353891OH NO NO NO NO
>>742354741i couldve just said noteworthy* but whatever
>>742334512Didn't sony just delete a bunch of digital movies people paid for because of licensing? I get not selling the movies anymore but how does that give them the right to just remove them from people's purchased library? So that with just digital games is awful, masks coming completely off for these corpos. Can't wait for them to remake the last of us again just to delete everyone's last of us copy they already paid for. At least PC gives an option to pirate when companies do shit like that. So why would anyone keep buying PS5 and the future PS6 when PC seems to be the way to go now?
Remember how Sony said a few days ago that their focus is increasing profitability per user instead of expanding their market? This is probably part of that strategy. No more pesky retailers or second hand market.
>>742354350The difference is that a lot of people decided to jump ship in 2013I was one of those people
We are entering the “you will own nothing and be happy” timeline and the chuds are nowhere to be seen.
>>742336036Even before Steam got big second hand market did not exist for many games because of DRM and online CD key activations, not to mention some stores refusing to purchase used PC games because they didn't know if the customer that'd buy it afterwards would be able to activate it. Steam arrived at the perfect time to bring something that was more convenient to the average customer than purchasing a physical copy.On console, you still have the choice to buy physical games and resell them as you wish, throwing this "right" away would be foolish of consolebros since the physical market is still alive and kicking in spite of stupid bullshit like day 1 patches. In that context, I think you shouldn't support any console manufacturer that moves to digital only, but that's just my 2 cents as a PC gaymer.
>>742354714yes they are, epigger jeet retard
>>742355180Even without a second hand market new physical games are cheaper than digital. Retailers run frequent promotions and they clearance stuff out to make shelf space. PSN sales are already shit and are just going to get worse when Sony has even tighter control of their platform.
>>742347675You're either the dev or you know what the bottom of the dev's shoes taste like.Lower the price or I'm not buying.
>>742355082They're been mentally enslaved by console companies. Notice how they think PC is synonymous with steam, as if the only way to play PC games is through valve.Concepts like DRM-free games and FOSS don't exist to them.
NO GAMES
>>742355438That's a good point too. There's just no reason a console players should just lie down and take this move. Console manufacturers are competitors, if one does something retarded we can only hope others retaliate. Having choice is important.
>>742334774This is the real issue here.
Lol, what happened to backwards compatibility? You won't be able to play your physical games anymore. Wanna replay Snoy Corridor 3? Sorry, chud. Have to buy it again.
>>742338152>And they want to get something real for their money toohere's your plastic disc with game-v1.rar on it bro
>>742356120They said they're not making physical copies of new games, not disabling playing old games
>>742355813Thats crazy to me. I cant tell you the amount of times I pirated a game just to buy it because it was enjoyable. PC let's you do so much that the digital only argument people like to make for them is basically moot.
>>742356120Are you stupid? Do you think Sony is going to send death squads to everyone's houses and snap their disks in half?
>>742356187Are you retarded?
Any other industry would have lawsuits up the ass but if gaming gets fucked with, "IT'S TOS! GET FUCKED"
>>742356120>>742356235>>742356327They might as well be. I think they mean if someone buys a PS6.
>>742356475yeah even fucking movies are still releasing physical boxes. The fucking audacity of Sony to think they can go full digital only.
>>742334512Next they won't even sell you a digital copy, the game data won't be saved onto your system but streamed from a data center
>>742334512Thank fucking god.Way less environmental hazard
>>742356513There's already a digital only version of the PS5. They'll just do the same exact thing they did with that. Have a separated disk drive you can buy as an accessory.
>>742334512Won't game companies that have releases in 2027 just be incentivized to strictly release digitally next year then?I mean if the writing is on the wall then I don't see FF7 Revelation, RE Veronica, and potentially Persona 6 have physical releases then.
I just don't understand how they don't see it as fucking retarded to just cede all of their physical retail space to Nintendo. Like what the fuck?
>>742335027Same.If I have kids they can play all of my systems that I already have
Honestly the main reason I still have a console is because I like using my PC for other shit on the side but at this point I feel like I might as well just buy a 2nd fucking PC just for gaming.
>>742336036PC is not a closed platform and I can move from system to system and still keep my games.
Thank god nintendo is the most popular right nowIf they were on a wii-u trip i might actually have been over with thisFuck sony
>>742352209Underrated fact post.
>>742338182No, Nintendo.
Fucking insane. The meme about Playstation having no games became (even more) real.
>>742356847Most people only care for 3rd party nowadays and GKC's are not a good alternative to true physical.Playstation physical had the entire game on the disc and the disc itself acted as the licensing check to bypass any kind of DRM nonsense so you could play these games offline.GKC's do not do this. GKC's are just a physical reusable download key.
>>742357042It brings a tear to one’s eye. The PS5 was so committed to having no games that they got rid of them entirely
>>742356784Why do I need to buy playstation games anywhere else? I can still buy them on sale and share them with friends.
Oh no, they're not done raping Sony yet.
>>742336036Steam is the largest pillar of the PC ecosystem. Steam is NOT the PC ecosystem. Do you understand, you big stupid fucking idiot?
>>742357228Based Noid.
>>742357228First GoW Laundry, then this? What did Sony do to piss off Dominos so much?
>>742336036I was unaware that I had to buy the Steam store to play Steam games.
>>742357228Based pizza GODs
Nothing is stopping Nintendo and Xbox from doing this also.
>>742356641Oh you know for a fact Sega and SE will take the leap. Not sure about Capcom but they have basically come out and said their largest sales are on PC, which is likely attributed to them constantly allowing depreciation to influence the pricing of their games and repeat sales.
So this applies to all PS5 games and not just 1st party ones right?
Stupid question, but if there's no physical games, then why would the digital versions of those games depreciate on the platform? Wouldn't they have incentive to keep them as high as possible for as long as possible?
>>742356613>Have a separated disk drive you can buy as an accessory.>implying
>>742357429Nintendo would probably increase prices before going completely digital. And besides their two 80 dollar games there's plenty of wiggle room for smaller releases like Star Fox.
Consoles are legitimately just going to be locked down PCs now, and they're barely even cheaper anymore. What's the point? Just give up at this point
>>742357546>I'll only be able to play FF7 Revelation and Persona 6 if I'm connected to the internet otherwise DRM will take hold and my game won't work after 30 days of being offline
>>742357228Sassy tweets will not make us forget how much your pizza quality has gone downhill since 2010.
>>742357676They wouldn't. Outside sales they will remain 60-80 dollars forever.
>>742357735Why would they not do that? It's free money. You're genuinely fucking brain dead if you don't think they would. There are only positives and no negatives from their point of view. Not doing that would just fuck them in the ass and make millions of people not buy the console.
>>742356641>you're never getting that physical FF7R trilogy package
>>742357748It's just MK World. Wait, they announced GTA VI for Switch 2.
I think I'm better off upgrading my PC's motherboard, CPU, and maybe GPU
>>742357587Sony produces the discs to be used on Sony consoles.
>>742357748>Nintendo would probably increase prices before going completely digitalOk mister Nintendo insider
>>742357748Nigger what? They're literally already pushing for digital only.
>>742356641All of those games are definitely getting PS6 versions. Even Persona which will look like an early PS4 game.
>>742357812>Why would they not do that? It's free money. You're genuinely fucking brain dead if you don't think they would.Where have you been in the past few months?
I can't genuinely name the last time I wanted a game on the stupid paper weight of a PS5 I have, too. I only bought it because my PS4 suddenly burnt out and its just been literally used to play my old library. Like I've never actually understood how a company can look at their competition, realize they're at advantage, and purposefully make it even worth less to own their product.God, we can already emulate Bloodborne. I guess I oughta get rid of this piece of shit.
>>742357947No they aren't.
>>742358051delusional
who cares tho, 80% of "gamers" are under 18 years oldyou will play whatever your parents buy you
>>742356235And how will you play them on your shiny new Snoybox? You won't. Enjoy keeping a bunch of old pieces of plastic around forever.
>>742358115I'll take a word to describe this poster for 500 alex
>>742357812They're getting rid of physical completely.
>>742358203They're probably going to release a USB disk drive> Enjoy keeping a bunch of old pieces of plastic around forever.The last PlayStation game I bought was Bloodborne and it's the only PS4 game I own. Didn't bother with a PS5
>>742355315only some, not all. you blackest gorilla nigger cum guzzling retard
>>742358001Ok so you can't answer my question. Stupid fucking zoomer. Clearly you haven't been around for every single console generation and how big of a deal backwards compatibility is.
>>742358152We need a word for people who only play free GAAS and mobile games. That would also permanently debunk the myth that 50% of gamers are women.
I already use my PS5 just to watch movies anyway. Fuck Snoy.
>>742358342retarded nigger, "only some" is the minority that actually has drm, and all such drm is not even steam, it's denuvo and the like, faggot assed cocksucking epigger snoygger retard
>>742358436I hope you didnt buy any digital ones because they just deleted a bunch. lol of course you didnt, who would buy a digital movie ha ha
If Helix can come with a physical drive you will see the greatest reversal of Console Wars since the death of the Dreamcast. I refuse to support a glorified BlockBuster Rental Scheme.
>>742358515idiothttps://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm
>>742358595dumb fucking niggerjeet
>>742358571I actually did when I was too broke (young) to order physical media online and too lazy to pirate, but they were all capeslop, and of course I don't do that anymore. Well, at least the PS6 will have games. Hopefully it will, right, fellow gamers?
>>742358884Heh dont get your hope up. Unless walking around simulator and 2 hour cutscenes are your kind of thing.
>>742335319Those will be gone by the end of the decade
>>742358031Stellar Blade Blood Rain may be my last PS5 game if it comes out soon enough.
>>742359143Its coming out on PC. Not sure if my 3080 will be able to run it, but I'd rather just get it there instead of playstation. The thing's literally a bloodborne machine for me.
>>742334512this shouldnt be a shock. how can they be producing physical copies when there are no games?
>>742359207My PC can't run it and at the bare minimum I would need $800 just to upgrade the CPU, fan, Motherboard, and PSUAnd a new GPU would have to be 800 minimumAnd nothing from intel/invidiaAnd I would need to make sure Linux mint is on there and I would need to get any age verification shit out of there, assuming my windows 10 key doesn't work anymore
>>742359143stellar blade is cringe garbage for zoomer incels
>>742334512another reason to not buy PS6
After all the years of /v/ screaming gaming is dead it finally happened
>>742353576You're right, sorry I was acting that way, things have been a bit rough at home so I like to act like that as a way to vent.
>>742334512Not my problem, niggaLolLmao
>>742339858The switch 2 is exactly the same thing on a practical level. The difference is that they have a pretty cartridge to fool you.
>>742336036PC is moddable and open ended platform, Steam allows you to keep games, you can move from platform to platform and still play games, AND you can have backups even if they are pirated unlike with Playstation. Digital console gaming is literally cuckoldry just like everybody else mentioned. You've been warned ages ago.
>>742334512sony appears set on actively reviving internet piracy. weird move but ok
>>742359841No, it's not even close considering you can sell it later.
>Pirate everythingfag when his chinese SSD dies
>>742335198>blame your fellow gamer for this oneThe average casual who buys only 2 games a year and prefers the convenience of digital is NOT my fellow gamerSony moving their HQ to the US and catering to that audience with movie games is what got us here
>>742360282What would that affect? Imagine not deleting a pirated game the second you roll the credits
>>7423592073080 will still get you better performance than ps5 pro. God help us if Shift Up ever signs an exclusivity deal with Sony again though.
>>742336770Nintendo isn't that dumb, that's why they're now pricing some physical games higher than digitalWorst case scenario will be them having physical releases that are both delayed and significantly higher priced
>>742358884playstation stopped having games since the ps4
>>742360116Nobody cares about buying or selling. That's not the point of physical.
>>742336770>IT'S OKAY BECAUSE SONY IS DOING IT, STOP MOCKING THEM!!!!I hope you guys enjoy 100s of threads of these fucking faggots like this dumbass doing mental gymnastics to explain this one.
>>742362518>That's not the point of physical.yes it is
>>7423374694chan already showed from their website that Oasis is in Hong Kong and that it was full of westerners. Especially Jews (the bio even fucking stated that one of them used to work for the IDF)
>News of your company removing films from accounts with no refunds freshly finished doing the rounds online>News of PSN on PS3 and Vita shutting down with no refunds and the eventual inability to redownload bought titles>Decide NOW is the time to announce an all-digital futureWhat fucking retard is responsible for this timing? Or are they hoping to pull the bandaid off hard while people are hyped about GTA and forget about it?
Sail the seven seas
>>742334512Honestly surprised it took them this long to show their hand. The writing was on the wall years ago and physical only continued to exist because Sony saw a way to fuck over Microsoft by releasing the PS4 with an emphasis on physical discs. Now that Microsoft isn't a problem, may as well go back to what they all planned to do around 2014.
>>742336036i can pirate the same game i bought and put it on a external hard drive and give it to someone or play it offlineyou cant do this
PC gamer here.Does this harm you in anyway?>consoleOh yeah. No rights. Okay.
PS4 to PS5 was already an anemic userbase migration. After witnessing a generation of slop 1st party studios, diminishing returns in visuals , higher prices and anti consumerism it will be at least twice as bad. It's obvious that it's managed decline, but why
>>742355986IN THE END
>>742357856The new Fire Emblem is also 80 bucks.
>>742355986Did this song ever make it to the Rock n' Roll hall of fame?
>>742334512FUCK THE S N O Y NIGGERS!
>>742367080Do Intelligent Systems ever?
Total Victory
>>742335027This. Fuck them and their anti-consumer practicesTime to set sail for the high seas
>>742335612>your PS3 store purchases will remain available until we feel like ending itImagine trusting a billionaire megacorp to keep your digital purchases available for as long as you want. No, it's as long as THEY want. Thanks for the money dummy
>>742355178Only cucks in that timeline
>>742367435Nintendo's policy actually, they dictate prices because they publish the games. Coming back to old days. Prior to PS1, in past console games costed 70-90 usd.
What about collector editions?
So gamestop will either finally go the way of blockbuster or it will only sell video game related merch.
>>742370825Bunch of useless plastic crap with a code in box?Do you still want that?
>>742370863>blockbusterLast location location?
>>742370863They still have Nintendo.
>>742334512lol it has no games
>>742370825BUT MY GOY PLASTIC!?!
None of you care about this
>>742372412i very much care about the total death of snoy and the complete humiliation of all snoyggers in realtime
>accounts easily hacked completely locking people out of their digital games>removes digital media from accounts randomly, at any time with no notice>constantly closing storefronts making any digital-only hardware essentially obsolete on a whim>stopping physical game production altogetherIf anyone purchases a PS6 they are the most retarded cuck imaginable.
>>742372412i literally do.seethe and cope, snoygger.
>>742372412You're right, I do not care about modern Sony products.But the needle that was previously at "I do not care" has now shifted to "I will never care".
>>742372602>removes digital media from accounts randomlyNo, but they will do it deliberately.>play online game>call a retard a retard>get instantly flagged by their AI nanny system for wrongthink>account suspended>can't access games>console lockedIt would be the final realization of the>say word, game stolenmeme
>>742359207Dude that game will be having almost identical specs requirements
>>742372412They killed the last good will I had for SonyNow I want them to fail super hard
>>742374729You can stop pretending you ever wanted them to not fail tendie.
>>742335605what is this meme that digital games never go on sale outside of steam? xbox and psn have seasonal sales all the time. Who cares if the base price never changes?
>>742334512can somebody reverse this video and post it in webm format?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
>>742374796I was always mostly a Sony/Nintendo guy with a brief affair with Xbox when the 360 was king
>>742357228>food analogy
>>742372412You're right. I haven't cared about Sony since the PS2 days.
>>742336036Aside from cross-play promotional deals, games on Sony's consoles are tied to hardware generation.Bought on a PS3? Can't play on a PS4 or 5. Bought on a PS4? Can't play on a PS5 (unless it was a special cross-play license) This means if Sony ever pulls online support for a particular platform, like how they're now closing the PS3 & PS Vita store and - if they follow the same playbook as they did with the PSP - will close down the actual library support and account sign-in in a year or two, all those digital licenses go :: poof! ::On Steam though, you're not locked to any particular hardware generation. Sure back-compat with older Windows versions tends to be a bitch sometimes. But in general there's also community patches available to mod games that have such issues. And in more recent years, anything that runs through Proton on SteamOS will generally truly keep running forever.
>>742336874Yes because you fags refuse to do anything to stop it.
>>742334512So uh, I should sell my gamestop stock now I guess?
>>742337947Sith are Schwabmaxxing, actually.He came before.
The time has come for Sony to die.
>>742352021>KIDS act gets ratified in the US.>Act gives AIPAC controlled US government has full say over moderation rules on digital platforms and controls what you can and cannot post.>Now you can't even COMPLAIN about 'not owning anything' anymore.
>>742353556>There are, at the moment, no ways to bypass any of this digitally on a PS5 and the incoming PS6.The EU.If Sony actually hardlocks the Playstation ecosystem to PSN, then for legal parity and equal application of law, the EU is going to have to follow what they did with iOS and the AppStore, and Android and the Play Store, and designate PlayStation and PSN as a gatekeeper - which will mean Sony become legally required to allow alternate storefronts and sideloading onto the PS platforms.
>>742376132If there is only consolation (heh), I exclusively play single player nowOnline is too dangerous right now and its going to be MORE dangerous on
>>742334512>Sells ps5 with disk tray>Stops selling disksget scammed nerd
>>742334512Could be worse.Xbone is working on a feature that digitizes your physical disc and destroys it so it doesn't work anymore
>>742370716The old days were excusable due to how expensive carts were to make depending on the storage needed or other hardware needed by the game.
>>742376601They really that desperate to kill the second hand market?
>>742376601No it doesnt. The xbox method still allows the disk to be used
>>742358361Damn. That's actually a good burn.
>>742376746Probably just for your specific Xbox , but not any other
>And for no reason whatsoever piracy keeps getting more popular
>>742376815No the rumour explicitely says you can still share the disk. All sharing the disk does is deactivate the digital copy it generates on your console.
>>742364475>Or are they hoping to pull the bandaid off hard while people are hyped about GTA and forget about it?This. It's unironically this. Because Sony are reality-detached retards.Always have ben.
>>742336770Goy cattle get what they fucking deserve.
Imagine being forced to pay to use your own internet you already paid for for the privilege of using their ''features''
I never thought TV would outlive video games
>>742335612The PS3 store is gonna be a big hit for certain countries. Because the only way to have any of those games on your PS4/5 is IF Sony released PSNow in your country. If you never got that service then you still to this day cannot play your PS3 digital games.
>>742376670And most of games would be easy to pick up and were replayable unlike now when everybody tries to make big movie game.
>>742335030Can't you see, the only reason Sony's last dozen live service attempts failed is because consumers are too busy playing old games.So now if they get rid of old games, consumers will pay for their upcoming live service slop in droves!
>>742334512>NO GAMES>I DONT KNOW WHY>I SUBBED TO GAMEFLY WHEN PS6 HAS NO DISC DRIVE
>>742375438Then you're more retarded than sony at this point faggot.
>>742378413how is this song still fucking relevant?
That was the signal, the green flag I've been waiting years for. no physical games. I'm not longer participating in the market. Old games only from now on. Retro resellers, get your pockets ready for my money.
PS6 has NoGames
Play has no limi- ACK!
I am happy.
Eventually they will close the PS4 store and you will lose access to Bloodborne.
>>742379303Legit why haven't they ported it to PC yet?
>>742354086Also on the same day they announce that they're finally closing the PS3 and Vita stores, at that.
Anyone surprised that 80% of sales are digital? No one wonder physical is dying
>>742379428Because sony and fromsoft are both gay retards chasing other bullshit.Think about how many hundreds of millions to billions of dollars both companies have made yet they can't get together and unfuck bloodborne in any capacity. If I cared about bloodborne at all I would be so pissed.
fyi the real and sole reason for this is the PS6 handheld. how are they handling that it will have no disc drive to play your large library of physical games? simple, they drag the home console version of the PS6 down to its level. no physicals for anyone. then you won't buy any of those pesky discs that work on your console and not your handheld.
Why don't they just let you make your own physical copies? Like just encrypt a flash drive that only your console can decrypt with its private key?
>>742379724We know per Miyazaki that Sony told him Bluepoint were gonna remake it, and he shut that down entirely. They didn't offer him the chance to port or remaster his work, they told him they were going to remake it.I don't blame him at all for saying fuck off.
>>742334512Fuuuuuuuckk, I really need to start buying up retro consoles before zoomers irreparably fuck up market prices like they did with the 3DS.
>>742380823Too late, retro games have skyrocketed in price
>>742336770You said the same thing when paid online became a thing, and I promply flipped the middle finger to its generic direction the same (while you probably slurped it up)How about you eat 37 bags of dicks, faggot
>>742354086Can't feel bad for people who get raped by someone that's clearly a rapist, who does nothing at all to hide that fact.
I'm glad I invested into PC. Owning a modern console is an humiliation ritual at this point.
>>742353891Cartridges ended with the SNES
I came in here getting angry at the start but then I realized I never bought any physical discs since Covid so now I don't particularly care about this at all.
>>742335937Wonderwall bros.... we lost....
>>742379583it's 85% actually and it's growing every year on all consoles.
>>742382530Ok but they're going to shut off the store eventually and you will never be able to purchase another game released after 2028 for your console ever again.
>>742382690Why would they shut it off? That's where people will be able to buy the games.
>>742382778They literally just announced they're shutting down the digital stores on PS3
snoytrannies subhumans deserve this
>>742382953>PS3good riddance. I'm assuming you know why they're shutting it down right?
>>742377098The eternal cycle.
>>742334512no reason to buy that trash over a pc then
Will gaming survive the next ten years?
>>742382516>what is the game boy>what is the n64>what is the game boy color>what is the game boy advance>what is the nintendo ds>what is the nintendo 3ds>what is the nintendo switch>what is the nintendo switch 2cartridges never went anywhere, dipshit retard nigger
>>742383630Yeah, but it'll just be Nintendo.
>all this conveniently happens after snoytards relentlessly shat on the Star Fox remake for no reasonFucking KAKTHIS is your punishment, Eric
>>742334973no they will never go on sale either
>>742383636portable consoles is what they are. on home consoles cartridge is long dead, since the days of n64 that you listed there
>>742383769Are you the>THIS IS REVENGEguy from Palworld threads
>muh plastic funcopops>how will I show off games on shelves now!!!wow gay
>>742334512At least this means that games will be cheaper now that they don't have to produce a physical product, right? :^)
Well fuck me dead. I'm actually going to live to see the death of video games. Guess I'll just go push a hoop with a stick instead. FUCK THIS GAY FUCKING EARTH!
>>742383769He's made the same Gaben thread in a couple of hours, he's fucking fuming
https://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA?si=sxPetLxRVvDWPyXI>all the new commentskek. i fucking hate sony so much.
so what sony games skyrocketed because of this news other than retro?
>>742376601That would be great for the Series S, but it seems it's only for the next Xbox.
>>742354086>is such a hilarious level of tone deafis on purpose, you will own nothing and you will be happy
>>742383769I mean yeah this news is definitely the worse of the two but the Star Fox remake deserves all the shit it got>>742385756What other Sony games are there?
>>742385756games?
>>742385756Expect physical copies of PS3 games to go up.
>>742334665Why is a video game store front selling movies?
>>742386024good thing I snagged a sealed copy of uncharted 3 for $5 a while ago
>>742334512I haven't console gamed in a looooong time. What the fuck are they doing???Why not just plug an HDMI cable from your computer to your TV and just get a wireless controller at this point? Why even get a console?
>>742378795>xbox call the police, dad is beating me with the power chord again
>>742335612To ease the transition, players will still be able to download previously purchased content after the closing date for the foreseeable future>after the closing dateThey're already saying so explicitly, so they'll set an end date in the future, and they'll do it.The same will happen with the PS4, Wii, Wii U, and 3DS in the futurehttps://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57847/~/wii-u-%26-nintendo-3ds-eshop-discontinuation-q%26a
>>742386152I just stream my PC from my bedroom to either my laptop or my old emulation shitbox in my living room but your head is in the right place.
>>742383052because they don't want people to notice many PS1-PS3 games are available cheaper on it. the official reason is muh credit cards but they don't really care, they could've left up the web version of the store if they wanted. they took it down because they want people to stop buying older games instead of shittier and more expensive remasters and remakes.
