82% of PS5 sales are the disc edition Sony is literally shooting themselves in the foot by going full digital
>>742371125you cucks aren't going to do a thing.you will keep buying games and they will win by not having to produce physical.
MICROSOFT TO THE RESCUE
>>742371479>you cucks aren't going to do a thing.Precisely.I shall do nothing and win as per usual.
>>742371612that will be 20 per conversion plus tip
>>742371612i wish Steam offered the reverse sometimes. a way to get digital games on a USB drive or something.
>>742371125If consoleoids were going to stop taking it up the ass and stand up for themselves they wouldn't be consoleoids.
>>742372117It's called pirating
>>742371125Clearly this article is a lie, retard
>>742372347
>>742371125>2024
They know that and they don't care80% of gamers are underage and they will play whatever their parents buy them in whatever format
>>742372347Idiocia
Are they offering refunds to people who bought the disc drive?
>>742371125>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the footis this the old NeoGAF meme?
>>742373641LOLLMAO even
>>742371125Since PS6 will be digital only and wont have a bluray drive, what will happen to all your PS5/PS4 discs, are they going to kill disc based backwards compatibility?Surely not right?
>>742371125>https://youtu.be/eTDdDgr-xYoYou will own nothing and be happy. Like little spineless goycattle bitch that you are
>>742372117Gog already did that
>>742371125>>742372458sony retards buy zero games
>>742371479I will keep buying games correct, but I'll do so on Steam.>>742371612What does this solve tho
I've lost far more physical games than digital ones
>>742372117you can LITERALLY do that.Right-click > Manage > back up game filespick your directory of choice and enjoy
>>742376524This
I'm sure the usual retards will come in with nonsense stats like "only 35% of sales are physical" which is Sony retardation as they include DLC and mtx as part of it
The annoying thing is even if most of someone's library is digital, a lot of people still choose to buy physical for games they really like. 90% of my game purchases are digital for the convenience, but there is the 10% I still enjoy having the option of owning and choose it for them.Limited editions of games especially, will feel worth so much less if they don't even come with an actual physical media for the game
Yet software sales are literally the exact opposite at 85% digital
>>742378408We already know that isn’t purely game sales.
>>742372563>80% of gamers are underageSource? Most kids don't even like consoles anymore, they are glued to smartphone screens.
>>742371125You can thank these retards. You don't make this amount of money without major changes. This is literally a "vote with your wallet" scenario. Unless pre-orders drop drastically, this is the new reality.You'll either play retro only, stop gaming, or own nothing and be happy thanks to the retards that pre-ordered a $100 game without seeing any gameplay
>>742371125OF COURSE THE PS6 HAS NO DISC DRIVEYOU NEED GAMES FOR ONE OF THOSE.
>>742375192>i will fight the digital only future on consoles by buying digital only on PCYup, gamers will never stop losing.
>>742378408I bought the remasters of the Onimusha games on sale last night. This is because they were cheap, and there are no easily attainable physical editions of these remastered PS2 games that originally released over 20 years ago. If there werr physical copies easily available, even if a little more expensive, I would have bought them instead.A few months ago, I bought the ultimate edition of Space Marine 2 digitally, even though I own it physically, because that was on sale and therefore far cheaper than buying the two included season passes separately, since they were not on sale.These kinds of purchase contributes to that statistic, completely skewing it, and is in absolutely no way an indicator of my "consumer preference" or willingness to shell out 80 bucks (100 for the actual full game) for a revokable and non-transferrable non-refundable digital license for a modern big budget AAA game that will be locked to one online account in a digital ecosystem that has shown itself to be incredibly fragile.
>>742371125It's incredible how sony chose this week to go full retard
>>742375579We know, dumbo
>>742378408>1 person buys a physical game>downloads like 5 addons for itDork
>>742371125that's only because it's cheaper, not because people prefer digital games
>>742379939Rockstar has said no such thing. the number comes from a jeet.
>>742378408Kek no wonder they're killing physical media. If this is successful you can bet your ass that others will follow suit.
>>742371125Yet physical game sales keep dropping every year. These console sales are probably because people have a built up collection of Ps4 discs. This decision by Sony is actually in large part the gamers' fault. For some fucking reason, you console retards keep buying more and more digital games ( and less physical ) every year.
>>742382728This. It's actually their fault for making it this way.
I think these people are shooting themselves in the foot here. Only retards buy digital games at full price, the majority wait for a discount.They're just devaluing their games even more
>>742382728Don't blame us you capcom wanna be shill
they don't give a shit. they are going to start putting more ads into games now. sony are probably pissed that 82% of people bought the disc version. they don't want that, so they will just force it now
>>742371479Console Consoomers go to Gamestop to buy their games. You think a normie wants to be deleting and downloading games all the time on their 1tb hard drives?
>>742382935you do know that there are discounts on the stores too right?
>>742371612They're gonna have to do this if they want to phase out digital games. If I can't convert my entire physical libary to a digital one that I can delete and redownload as often as I want then Sony can go fuck themselves.
>>742383065Fuck yes! That's why Gamestop is thriving now right?
>>742371125that was only so people could play PS4 games on PS5 because PS5 has no gamesPS6 won't be backwards compatible with PS4 or PS5you'll need to re-buy GTA6 for PS6
>>742380176Will the games be cheaper and will I get them for cheapies in a sale?
>>742383209For new games yeah.
>>742372117@valve
>>742373641By 2028 they will release ps6 with no disk drive and announe they're cutting support for ps5. So dont even dream about refunds.>>742371479Even if current psfags "do something" as you say, newgens are gonna be okay with pure digital. There is no escape, they won and the only path is violence.
>>742378408lol all the normies i know have physical ps4 and ps5 gamessame with switch
>>742383286lol, lmao, that will be 100 dollars plus tip plus dlc plus micro transactions plus online service sub.
>>742381884>so this person actually bought 5 digital games to their 1 physical game
>>742383390opposite for me. We just end up borrowing each other's accounts.
>>742383134Way more restrictive, especially when it comes to the Playstation store. Sony deliberately restricts the sale of PlayStation game keys/codes to control distribution and maintain higher prices on their own store, they stopped provided full game codes to 3rd party sellers in 2019 I believe.So now you'll have to cross your fingers and hope the game you want goes on sale, and when it finally does, you bet your ass it's not going to be a deep sale any more because where the fuck else you gonna buy the game? Sony is legit doing more anti-consumer shit than Microsoft but they don't get near the amount of pushback because Sony fans are the most retarded of the fanboy groups by a fucking mile.
>>742371479Yeah, I'll keep buying games... On Steam.
>>742371125I bought disc edition to watch my Star Trek blu rays, I havent bought a physical game in 10 years
>>742378408>70% of the most popular games are online-only>Sony ends up doing Steam tier digital sales for onceThe fact the vast majority of people bought a disk based console shows they want the OPTION to run disks.
Wait, is this real? This is extremely stupid. They are removing the best part of consoles.Didn't Sony LITERALLY make fun of Microsoft because of this back in E3 a decade ago?
>>742371612this is like the video sony did about sharing games a decade ago. its a bad sign
>>742383593Can't you buy an actual 4k blu-ray player for less than a Ps5? And it's probably better too....
>>742383680I forget, was that before or after they became a Californian company? Shit blends together.
>>742383695Not around the time the base PS5 came out. You might be able to get them cheaper by $100 or so, but it isn't also a major gaming platform that can run 90% of all the new relevant games.
>>742383654They're not going to have as good of sales as Steam does. Also, remember one thing that I see almost no one talking about.....that's Sony's refund policy, which is absolute dog shit. Steam is very lenient on their refunds, Sony is arguably one of, if not the most strict.
No one ITT criticizing this move actually owns a Playstation 5 console or is interested in Playstation First Party games.
>>742382345Do you thinks someone would go to the internet and tell lies, timmy?
>>742371125it's not about money. its about control. its always ever been about control.
>>742383850Games?
>>742383680Times change. People now just go digital. You think Sony being the greedy fucks that they are would abandon something if it makes them money? The backlash is probably inconsequential compared to what they're going to gain with this.
>>742383794Ah ok then. I know nowadays you can get a good 4k blu ray player for like $250.
>>742383495it gets worsesony has the most sophisticated dynamic pricing engine in the industryfor example if you wishilist a game and keep viewing it on the PSN storefront they'll cap the discount during sales.the only way to get the best sales from here on out on a playstation store is to simply not interact with their online store at all and rely solely on alerts through some third party serviceSony is so invested in harvesting more from its retarded consumer base that they're retaining every possible last vector of profit marginon god this shit ass industry is fucking cooked
>>742383680>They are removing the best part of consoles.games? they already removed that a decade ago
>>742382728It needs to be kept pointing out that the digital sales that keep being highlighted included dlc and micro transactions.Even if you buy a physical game, if you purchase two dlc packs for said game Sony will interpret as 1:2 ratio of physical vs digital.
>>742383850I do own a PS5 and it has been my main gaming platform since I got it. Though yes I have zero interest in first party games cuase they all fucking suck. It's not my fault that Sony wanted my PS5 to be a multiplat machine.
>>742383901Isn't dynamic pricing illegal?
>>742383680YesIn 2028 no more physical games on PlayStation
>>742371125When I bought a ps5 I was disappointed to have to spend an extra $100 for a discount drive I wasn't going to use, but I just got a new job and wanted to play games with my friends and none of the stores around me had the digital version.
Honestly this one's such a bad move I could genuinely see them fully backpedaling on this.
>>742383850i stopped buying sony console once they released a digital only console
>>742383850Hey man I own a PS5 but I'm part of the "problem" since I've been all digital since the start of 2021.
>>742384017No, at least not in the US, and it probably won't ever be.
>>742384017good job proving in court that it's actually happening
>>742383680>>742383765So...how long until they disable commentshttps://youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
>>742384140It is in at least parts of the US actually. And if it's illegal in parts of burgerland I'd expect it to be illegal in parts of yurope too.
>>742378408They inflate the numbers with DLC, F2P slop, and PS+ downloads, as well as games that don’t have physical releases. Majority of games with physical release sell majority of their sales physically
>>742384157
>>742384210i'm sure a screenshot is enough for you to win in court anon
>>742384284>pictures are admissible evidence in court>you, a retard, "NOOOO THATS NOT ALLOWED!"Indian
>>742383850>or is interested in Playstation First Party games.I used to be...
>>742371125Are consolecucks finally realizing they're being assfucked? The servers will come down and you can't do shit. Even the games on disc require however many updates and random bullshit fixes, never going to be able to access it. Your HDD is limited and costs far more than any normal drive because fuck you. Thank god for PC supremacy and all games being cracked and datahoarded.
>>742384178When the 20 years olds who were 7 when this youtube video was uploaded realize that their fathers are freaking about physical video game media.
>>742383850I only buy physical and play third party. Fuck off with your gay movie games.
>>742383695But I don't want to have many things around, the less the cleaner
i would have bought more physical if they released games worth buying, i bought my PS5 in 2021 with a couple games to start me off including the demon souls remake, ghost of tsushima, Returnal, then i picked up Spiderman 1 and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart digitally as at the time they were $20-30 cheaper or something on sale. then just nothing else released that interested me and the PS5 turned into a fucking f2p gatcha game box, i still occasionally play Genshin Impact, Star Rail, and Neverness to Everness on it.i got two Xbox Series X system and split a gamepass subscription on it so my son always has a steady flow of games to play and i occasionally check something out.would have purchased a switch 2 but my wife wanted to get it for me as a gift but has poor money management and has not done so in a few years, didn't feel like hurting her feelings by buying it myself when there is only a couple interesting games on it.
>>742383901The Concord tax needs to get paid.
>>742384494sell the PS5 and Xboxesbuy a Switch 2 and a Switch 1 OLED and some pro controllersbuy a bunch of physical switch gameshave fun
My theory is that consoles can't survive without physical games.In the consumer's mind, the idea that PlayStation has a clear purpose will start to fade from now on, because PlayStation games are now all digital.Average people take a while to draw the right conclusions, but little by little they start to notice the inconsistencies and stop buying things they don't need. Eventually, they'll ask, "Why should I buy this sealed box that only lets me download games from Sony's official store, when I can buy that open box that lets me download games from thousands of different stores and sites and everywhere?"
Funny part is Xbox would easily be the winner of the next generation if they didn't spend the past decade doing the same exact shit
>>742384708Switch is still mediocre hardware. The next step is piracy on PC.
>>742384563>The Concord tax needs to get paid.concord + bungie tax*
>>742385054yes but it has games
>>742384946Xbox is going to bury a bunch of studios next week. The brand is as dead as it can be and they're still somehow making a new Xbox. >>742385093They already have a new trashfire on the HORIZON as a GAAS.
>>742371125>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the foot by going full digitalI highly doubt people will swap over at this point. They've been conditioned to accept an all-digital future and will gladly eat whatever bullshit Sony throws their way to avoid losing over a decade of locked media licenses by trying to hop onto a different brand. Besides, it's not like they can hop to Xbox now that Microcock is gutting the shit out of it and turning it into a glorified PC app for their new all-in-one desktop thing.
>>742384708already got a switch 1 with a ton of games i just didn't mention it.
>>742385173The most important games are third party. Nintendo is babby games that still run at 20fps despite being optimized in-house. Weird isn't?
>>742378408most physical sales are second hand this is why sony wants rid of it its probably x3 x4 more physical than digital
>>742384876both Microsoft and Sony HATE consolesthey want the normgroids streaming GTA and Fortnite from their servers via their Sony Smart TVs and first party controllersgetting rid of digital is just the first stepgames will be netflix where they can just add or remove titles as they see fit and immediately influence "The Culture" so that consumer habits for other products can be affectedyou guys have to understand that the end goal is a game platform that allows the reprogramming of the consumer at-will by ad buyersif they could work with Merck or Pfizer and simply sell a pill that let you go to sleep and play a game while you're unconscious they would, and you'd wake up with a brutal Taco Bell craving and a weird obsession with Ford
>>742371125>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the footFirst time?
>>742385280To be honest, it's more about feelings than how they actually play their games. This WILL push a bunch of people away even if they were mostly digital anyway. The normalfag operates on public opinion and gut reaction, both of which are negative. You will see them move to other platforms, be it steam, xbox, or nintendo and only the most diehard ride or die sonyfags will stay.
>>742371125They don't care, they said that they are now pivoting from trying to grow the userbase to increasing profit per user. You already bought that PS5, what are you gonna do? Buy an Xbox? Build a PC with those prices? Now is the perfect time to pull the rug and make you paypig like you never paypigged before. They got you by the balls, going forward if you want to play a game Sony will directly wallet rape you out of $80 with no way around it.
>>742385385will be funny when they go all digital and their sales don't go up all that much as they wont have an excuse.
>>742385437Sell Ps5 and games and controllersBuy Steam MachineEasy
>>742385436>it's more about feelings than how they actually play their games.I'd rather trust the data.
>>742385406Streaming will never actually be a viable method for gaming. You are right that they want to do it, but it's just not logistically possible for it to succeed. The lag is just too great. It's a doomed prospect, anyone who tries will just repeat the stadia.
what if this is Sony's way of slowly exiting gaming altogether?Sony Corporate hates the SCEx part of the business so fucking much, I'm not sure if anyone here gets it. They'd rather sell us TVs and monitors and cameras, they have way higher margin
>>742385437>Build a PC with those prices?Yes. It is the better option now.
>>742385589Wasn't there a rumor about Sony wanting to move away from Games?
>>742385437It is unironically cheaper to game on PC than it is to game on consoles, even ignoring piracy you when you factor in the lack of online subscription and the cheaper games any hardware cost gap inverts.
>>742385280Sony will not lose their f2p and yearly release whales profit but they'll lose customers who buy physical games.Piracy being mentioned everywhere today means that many people were always ok with it as a last resort. I mean, why spend money on something that you can't own when DRM exists? inb4GOG I know.
>>742385541Microsoft already has a hybrid neural-rendering setup they are testing internally, Asha even referenced it during the Bloomberg interviewgame design will change to adopt aggressive pre-input render vectors and culling but that doesn't stop Microsoft because they are going to have exclusives as their selling point anywayshit is about to get weird and stupid and extremely expensivei'm going back to retro again personally, refurbing old consoles and stuff makes me happier than playing anything these woke purpleslop retards are pumping out on Xbox commie pass
>>742385876Gothic is back though
>>742385647I actually hope they leave before they do more damage to my memory of them. Up until PS4 Sony was a net-positive to the industry and really pushed gaming forward.
>>742385534superluigidude got the right idea lol
>>742371125>Modern gaming keeps getting more retarded by the second >Normies and conditioned "gamers" will keep enabling because fomo and the need to have the latest and "greatest">Corpos will keep doing lizard brain pro shareholder tactics>Rinse & Repeat I blame gen 7
>>742371125All because those plebian at rockstar games can make a game compact of 100gb fucking assholes
>>742385589>They'd rather sell us TVs and monitors and camerasThey sold the majority of their TV business just earlier this year, they have no real presence on the monitor market, and no one cares about digital cameras when everyone has a phone. I'm not sure where Sony even makes their money anymore.
>>742386143Why the 7th gen? The bad practices were already in many PC exclusives before they came to consoles such as the infamous horse armor.Also Steam trying paid mods way before Bethesda. The hats and skins microtransactions, MTFs etc.
>>742385876We'll see. I don't have any faith that it will actually pan out. AI isn't the magic silver boolet execs try to sell it as and there are very real limits on what it can actually do.
Multiple discs is the solution.
>>742386310Sony TVs were good but now it's Samsung who took over. Sony lost so much shit in the last 2 decades.
>>742383850>actual PS5 owners are cattle who take everything Sony gives them while asking for 2ndsepic defense
>Microsoft threw in the towel a long time ago>Sony is shooting itself in the foot with the wrong strategy>Nintendo is happy with tabletsImagine if Sega decided to launch a traditional console now and rise from the ashes...
>>742385280I think they are feeling confident based on how fucked the Xbox brand is.
>>742386536>Imagine if Sega decided to launch a traditional console now and rise from the ashes...yeah that 1300 dollar Sega Frontier gonna go over well
>>742386367PC isn't really a factor because it only took off after all of these bad practices were popularised by Sony and MS.Contrary to popular belief it that introduces it that's at fault, it's the one that convinces people that they're good
>>742386410They did that with Cyberpunk and RDR2 i think.
>>742378408>1.5 million>in three fucking months>worldwideHoly fuck PS5 is beyond dead
>>742386536If they did that, Sonic, Persona, and Yakuza would all be exclusives. Persona fans aren't going to buy a new console because they just watch the cutscenes on YouTube.
>>742371612What. You mean to tell me that wasn't already a thing as soon as they introduced digital games two decades ago? Fucking paypigs, I swear...
>>742386367Because gen 7 was when wii became an access point for the lowest of low common denominator casuals, and PS360 began pandering increasingly towards graphics and immersion fags, even though from that point on graphical fidelity is increasingly diminished returns, and because nobody wants to take chances and make unique games, aesthetically or gameplay wise, larger studios have been making games that for the most part look and play the same as each other, with a flair or two of IP individuality While indies are plagued by woketards, or under talanted hacks that milk kickstarters and patreonsGaming may be the most technically advanced it's ever been, but philosophically is the weakest it's ever been, and the collective actions required will never happen, so things will only get worse until the investor assholes scrap everything for parts and move on
>>742371125People like having a disc drive at time of purchase "just in case" but most don't actually use it.
>>742386623MS biggest scumbag practice is paid online, nobody will dispute that and for Sony, i'd say the CELL fucked a complete generation with forced remasters and no BC. Right now, the PS5 could have BC for everything without the PS3 alien architecture.
>>742378408This ignores used sales, people borrowing the game from a friend, and rentals (small numbers but gamefly still exists). Obviously Sony doesn't care about these because they make no money on them, but it's disingenuous to ignore them and claim people don't care about physical.
You all shit on sony, but this will only make Sony even more money. Those exc. knows exactly what they're doing.
>>742384371
>>742386937Just like they knew what they were doing when they spent billions on Bungie and burned more billions on a dozen failed GaaS projects right
>>742385926horrible bait or retarded
>>742386929When 85% of full game sales on the PS5 are digital, the vast majority of the people do not care about physical games.
>>742387084I don't know, are you baiting or are you retarded? Why are you asking me? Gothic is objectively back though. Cry about it all you want.
>>742386937Remember when everyone swore they were going to cancel Netflix for cracking down on password sharing? Subscriptions skyrocketted that year.
>>742386873That makes sense desu but i'm probably just nostalgic for 7th gen because i played more games during it than previous gens and current gens.
>>742386310It's crazy also to think they are the father of the Blu-ray. I have a Sony 4k disc player and it constantly freezes and can't play a lot of my 4k movies.
If you really think they dont have data to back up this decision, I'm just going to assume you're sub body temperature iq.
>>742386901>MS biggest scumbag practice is paid onlineThing is Sony still popularised it. Hardly anyone paid for XBL at the time.
>>742371125>Sony wants to be more like Valve>Valve wants to be more like Sony
Physical buyers LOST
>>742386937>Bad for consumers>B-BUT MUH PROFUT MARGINSnap on train tracks, shareholder scum
>>742386937>Those exc. knows exactly what they're doing.Clearly not if they're alienating almost their entire playerbase.
>>742386367Horse Armor dlc came with the xbox 360 release of Oblivion and Oblivion was built for console from the ground up bethesda was no longer a PC dev.
>>742386937Just like how they knew what they were doing with Concord right? I always love this cope of "they're higher ups at big companies for a reason, they MUST know more than you" lmao.
>>742387206>It's crazy also to think they are the father of the Blu-rayThey're the mother of CD in general since the format was co-developed with Philips.
honestly, I'm just going to buy another PS2. Why spend $80 on digital remakes of games that are 30 years old when I can just buy the original games for $5 used?
>>742387192There were a few good ones, to be sureBut this is also when patches and dlc became crutches instead of simply just releasing a polished and complete game, and storage started to become an issue because games started getting too big for traditional physical media, even though they offered the same quantitative amount of content
>>742387282>10% physical buyer is their entire playerbaseLOL
>>742387221At least on GameFaqs people were rightly shitting on the paypigs before i came here in 2009. The PS4 defense force were hypocrites, the same fags that shat on the XBL were licking Sony's boots in 2014. Nintendo followed suit years later as tradition.
>>742371479>I'm a corpo simp that buys no matter what, so that means everybody is a corpo simp that will buy no matter what!Actually kill yourself.
>>742387469Anon, when you take out digital only products physical sells far more.
>>742386937>Those exc. knows exactly what they're doing.
>>742387527>Nintendo followed suit years later as tradition.Not exactly, that was also the result of vsony convincing people that it resulted in a better service so at the time people shat on Nintendo for not having a sub service.
>>742387274>digital is actually better for the consumer>somehow this is bad
>>742387287You guys also said Diablo 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R were never ever going to be on consoles. There's no console or PC games, it's up to the devs to be better designers. Also TES3 was on Xbox, a console btw.
>>742371125People might be buying the physical ps5, but for whatever reason they're mainly buying digital games on it. I hate this decision but I sadly don't think this will move the needle much for sony
>>742387462I remember online passes but forgot what they were doing. That and Crapcom literally putting future DLCs on the base disc and you had to pay to unlock it.
>>742387815>That and Crapcom literally putting future DLCs on the base disc and you had to pay to unlock it.KEK I remember that
>>742371125Truly a grim digital only future we're headed for. When internet is really fast and stable globally I think they will switch all media to pure streaming. Xbox/Nintendo/Sony will just be a app on your smart TV and you can buy/play games instantly. You'll see a ad for a game on tv and click play/buy now and instantly be playing a online match with your friends. Extreme convenience factor normies will love it.And the corps will finally have total control of all your media, the streaming services will only function for as long as they say it does.
>>742387636>digital is actually better for the consumerYep, attaching everything to an account that can easily be hacked because their security is assRemoving game sharing via physical sharing.Removing the ability to revert patchesRemoving the ability to return your gamesReducing purchasing optionsTotally pro consumer.
>>742387636How is digital better?Being completely at the mercy of what [company] feels like offering?Having the cost of storage passed on to you for everything?Oh, but you don't have to get your fat lazy ass up to change disks, so I guess you're right>>742387815The internet's presence in general certainly helped in the decline in gaming
>>742387635Sony or was it the SDF? As for Nintendo, i mean they added a paid sub and there was absolutely no resistance just like the ps+ apologists. Fanboys gonna fanboy, it doesn't matter who, when, why and where.
>>742387678>You guys also said Diablo 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R were never ever going to be on consoles.Nobody said that and those are ports. Diablo 1 was ported to the PS1, it's still a PC game.>Also TES3 was on Xbox, a console btw.port.
>>742387986Streaming will be the final death of the industry
>>742388039>and there was absolutely no resistance just like the ps+ apologists.There was a massive outcry about it to the point where the rollout was delayed and the classic games went from being on rotation to just having a full library at all times. It was the most opposition to a sub service ever.
>>742372117Why retard? Its a digital store, they dob't make all the games sold there. Thats a decision that is up to the actual devs and publishers. Otherwise put the game on a USB yourself if you want that nostalgic feeling. PC isn't like some console that Valve personaly own.
>>742373641oh that's very cute
>>742387986>When internet is really fast and stable globallyWill never happen. No one is gonna be willing to foot the bill for the infrastructure needed. Also won't stop them from trying to force streaming anyway.
>>742388021The Internet ruined many things IRL because normalfags flocked to it and couldn't draw a line between online and offline.
>>742380274New year, they got 12 month to make the drones forget about it.
>>742388058Ok, i won't argue semantics with you. Technically every console games are ports since they were made with PCs >:o)
>>742381884You're retarded.
>>742382728>For some fucking reason, you console retards keep buying more and more digital games ( and less physical ) every year.Because fewer and fewer games are getting physical releases.If a game does have a physical release, it's often delayed by months and in some cases not announced until after the launch window of the digital release.I bought Kena: Bridge of Spirits digitally, because it was the only option. A physical release was announced months later.Some games only get physical releases through limited-time drops like Limited Run and iam8bit, which most often happen well after initial release.
>>742388158I must have missed it but to be fair, i never really lurked much in the Nintendo news threads.
>>742371479This.Snoys accepted mandatory paid online when it used to be completely free for the ps3, they accepted the ps+ price increases, they accepted the "you get less discounts if you're a loyal customer" bullshit, they accept that 1080p 60fps STILL isn't the standard on their plastic brick, they will accept about anything.
>>742388295I miss the days of couch co-op and multiplayer You had to KNOW ANF GET ALONG with people Now, everyone sits in echo chambers or just goes on being as big a piece of shit as possible because they can, then a t like the victim when they violate some retarded and draconian ToS
>>742378408>DLC>microtransactions>subscriptions>digital only games>retailers stop carrying physical games>physical games stop containing the game on the disc>discs still require online check-in/DRM>no manuals>BUH NOBODY CARES ABOUT PHYSICAL!!This was clearly an orchestrated effort to kill physical so they can control the market and the pricing. They save money on digital vs. physical while also being able to gouge customers with no alternative (within their ecosystem)
>>742388604As far as online mp go, it's dead and not worth engaging with. Last mp game i've played is Diablo 3 over a decade ago and it was the most 7/10 game of its time.
>>742387986>in the future you will save 7 seconds of having to look for a game yourself >this is the worst thing imaginable get over yourself
>>742388995Most online mp is so lame on unappealing that everyone has adopted this gacha tier shit of>you gotta play 700 hours and win 2,000 matches this month, to get this time exclusive [90s IP or celebrity only 57 people care about anymore] skin!!! :O
>>742388673It's always been about sucking the most pennies out of the consumers pocket.The whales are doing it instinctively. See "gachas" and anything with RNG lootboxes.
>>742386937>this will only make Sony even more moneyNo, this will only make Sony cook the books even more like they always do. They can't even tell people how much the PS5 has made because it won't be a pretty number, just the "generation" from 2019-now is making. That's why Capcom called it a barrier.
>>742389150Not counting the META slaving in every single games being normalized. I'm glad that i stopped playing mp, it's fucking cancer now.
>>742389365I'm glad I stopped playing modern games altogether, they're Chernobyl tier radioactive shit
Any other retard devs that make games larger than 100gb should use multiple discs. Problem solve.
>>742389642The problem is that they don't want to pay so they opting to push the problem on to the consumers. Just like the crash it's always the third parties fucking shit up.
>>742389642Ff7 rebirth did this Kek
>>742372048Good. The one time I will agree on charging for the service.Because then I can choose NOT TO FUCKING USE IT
>>742371612When are you fucking faggots gonna learn. This is a work. They are literally seeding false info to see how well it plays off of Sony’s announcement. The new shitskin CEO will follow Sony’s lead if it proves correct in a heartbeat.
>>742374708they will sell you an external drive for that
>>742378408This is a flat out lie. What sony reports is SPENDING on all things digital vs.physical. This means they are comparing how much people purchase games in retails stores against everything on their digital storefront, so digital only games, dlc, and microtransactions majorly balloon the digital number. It's a misleading statistic and sony knows it. They want physical purchasers to feel like they're a smaller number than they actually are. We know from the insomniac leak that when you actually compare physical/digital purchasing of individual games, the split is 50/50 (although it depended on the title).Nintendo reports the real number by the way and physical outnumbers digital 2 to 1.
>>742390829Yes Sony's been blatantly lying about this shit in preparation for this move. Don't trust these snakes. The bean counters in charge of Playstation are not of Kutaragi or Hirai calibre. They just twist numbers around so next quarterly report looks slightly better.
>>742371612Missing the part where they want it to disable the disk when the transfer is complete.
>>742390829https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/25q4_supplement.pdf
>>742391616>revenueNigga everyone knows sony makes more money on digital purchases. That's why they want it so bad. This is still not a "number of copies sold" ratio
>>742391616>>742392304It also still includes digital only titles so it's not a fair comparison regardless
TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPIN SLIPPN INTO THE FUTURE
>it's digital only hehe>giant outpouring and press>okay! we hear you! it's discs!!>giant outpouring and press>year of our lord 2016 + 10>people don't get it
>>742388673>>742389187Which is just more funny that the only thing it's going to accomplish is making them less money as it pushes more people to PC.
>>742373695Sony must publicly apologize and CANCEL the PlayStation 6.
>>742391473Get rekt
>>742392439>I'm smart and understand things>no, my predictions actually never come true>why would that be a contradiction?
>>742392439>they're gonna roll back GaaS guys>Sony actually putting more money into GaaSit's never what you think anon
>>742371479>you cucks aren't going to do a thing.This. Normalfag cattle and sonyfags will eat this shit up, and will ask for seconds
I sure am glad that digital only consoles will always be supported brbgonna legally buy some pspgo games
>>742378408>Monthly active users 125MBut /v/ told me playstation is dying??
>>742395837and yet they keep needing to close down more and more studios curious
>>742385437>You already bought that PS5, what are you gonna do?Not buy new games (there's nothing good coming out anymore anyway) and spend the next decade playing the PS5 and PS4's physical back catalog while watching the industry collapse.
>>742390292>FF7RE won't have a physical release
So why buy a PlayStation, then?It's a closed system: you can only buy games from a single store, there's no piracy, no mods, no way to lend out your games, and you have to pay for online play.Why not buy a PC instead? Piracy, multiple stores, mods, free online play, emulation...
>>742396662>PS Games>best place to play third partythere you go
>>742396975PC
>>742396975>PS games
>>742396975but a pc is better for that ?You don't have access to REAL indie games like those on itch.io on PlayStation; you don't get visual novels made on Ren'Py and Koikatsu by a single guy on PlayStation; and you don't have ROM hacks.
>>742371479fpbp. Disc version sales do not matter when 90% of console revenue comes from online sales and mtx. And if you really doubt that why dont you ask the snoys to provide one of those investor earnings reports they were gushing over a few weeks ago?
>>742395837God alone knows how they are counting those.
>>742396975>PS Gamesah yes, such as...uh such as...ok, we're going to talk about everything.>Astro Botok, true exclusivity, real game>Astro's PlayroomTech demo, not a real game.>C-Smash VRS New Dimensionit's a free upgrade, the game is also on metaquest, not exclusive>Code Violet29/100 metacritic score... but still a exclusivity>Daba: Land of Water Scarnot released yet>Dead or Alive New Projectnot released yet>Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure – Replasteredit's a remaster, not a exclusive game, the original is EVERYWHERE, pc, xbox, vita, ps4, switch...>Demon's Souls (2020 video game)remake, doesn't count since you can play the original on ps3>Destruction AllStarsDelisted, servers shut down>Ghost of Yōteilol, lmao even but sure, it's a exclusive game (for now)>God of War Laufeynot released yet>God of War Sons of Spartauh, never heard of it but sure, count as a exclusive game>God of War Trilogy Remakea remake, doesn't count+ not released yet>Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophetnot released yet>Marvel's Wolverinenot released yet>Neptunia ReVerseit's just a port with few bonus, not a exclusive game>Paper Beastit's just a port with few bonus, not a exclusive game>Quantum ErrorQuantum Error received "generally unfavorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[13] Metacritic listed it the fourth worst game of 2023+announced on xbox, so a exclusive game, for now>Quantum StateSequel on quantum error, not released yet>R-Type Final 3 Evolvedit's just a port with few bonus, not a exclusive game>Rev. NOiRnot released yet>Saros yes, exclusive game>Silent Hill: The Short Messageyes, exclusive, nobody cared about it but still>Until Dawn 2not released yet>The Winds Risingnot released yet
>>742383065They do that anyways because often the disc asks them to download and install a bunch of stuff anyways
>>742398483SO on 25 games, The actual number of exclusives (true game, no port, no remake, no remaster) I could buy if I were to buy a PS5 tomorrow is... 6 gamesAstro BotCode VioletGhost of YōteiQuantum ErrorSaros Silent Hill: The Short Message
>>742375579That sounds like a personal problem.
>>742371612>...will use a high performance laser to mark original disks as used once the digital copy is redeemed.>Service will work for classic XBox and XBox 360 discs as well as XBox One and Series X
>>742378408>85% digitalYou could buy one dynasty warriors game physical then purchase all of it's DLC and you'd already be at this ratio.
>Retard only buys physical games>Buys lots of DLC>Now counted as digital only by statistics because it makes up the bulk of his spending>Sees PS6 will be digital only>Decides to not get itI’m sure there is a decent chunk of people that this applies to.
>>742398735Could I disassemble the xbox disc drive and make a laser gun?
>>742388673>>742378408>>DLC>>microtransactions>>subscriptions>>digital only gamesDigital makes more money>>retailers stop carrying physical games>>physical games stop containing the game on the disc>>discs still require online check-in/DRM>>no manualsPhysical makes less money while needing more effortDigital >>> PhysicalIt really is as simple as you didnt buy enough physical games. You didnt vote with your wallet hard enough and.now Sony is going all.in on the avenue that makes more money. So you either blame Sony and denounce your religion, or castigate yourselves for pushing Sony into this direction. These are your only options.
I have pretty shitty internet, and the power just LOVES going out, so it's going to suck having to download all my games from now on where I could just install the disk in like 5 minutes.
>>742398830Why would they count it in a retarded way? >because assuming they do helps with what I'm trying to push okay
>>742399145Fibernet has been standard for 10+ years. Sorry you live in a third world shithole still using dialup
>>742388283>will never happenLets consult the other bunch of shit that will never happen>DLC gating of content already on the disk>DLC used as soft DRM to combat resellers>MTX>Digital only>shit you bought not accesable, shit getting deleted without your consentYou niggas never learn.Btw, all this shit started with horse armor.I was 8 when they sold you this shit, and even my developing child ass knew what slippery slope we were heading toward.
They have to share a percentage of physical sales with retail stores plus the cost of producing the physical copies. they will make the same amount by cutting out the middle man but not have to outlay any money. also once retail stores are all bankrupt they can raise prices even more since they control the only POS.
>>742399307Im on PC and none of this shit has happened yet. In fact, muh cloud future! is slowly becoming the go to snoy excuseas if Stadia and Luna didnt exist
those percentages are missleading. physicals didn't drop, it's the number of digital kusoge indies that exploded.
>>742398483that wiki page is really pathetic to keep listing games that you can't even play
They want to kill off physical media because they want more power.With a physical game, I can buy it at a video game store, at a big-box retailer, or second-hand on eBay; a friend can lend it to me; and I can resell it, thereby potentially preventing the purchase of a new copy.
>>742399237I live in Michigan.
it is actually insane and tone deaf to announce going digital only right after they just revoked a bunch of stuff people paid for
I JUST WANTONE DISC
>>742378408>>742391616>solid, irrefutable proof from Sony themselves that physical is completely fucking irrelevant>NOOOOO IT'S NOT TRUE THOSE NUMBERS ARE MISLEADING!!!!!!What ugly, tranny-coded behavior.
>>742399592>MichiganMy condolences.
>>742371125You will buy it and fuck you.
>>742399754They're not counting things like used game sales.
To all you little snoyjeet streetshitters going "nothing will happen", a reminder that the reason Xbox is dead at all is because they tried doing what Zony is doing now. And zony will die just as easily.
>>742391616>physical numbers slightly improves over timepeople never stopped buy physical, they just buy more digital games
>>742399754Notice how it says "downloads" and not sales little snoyjeet?That's because those numbers are a lie, they include games that are ONLY available as digital, they include every single MTX, every DMC and even free garbage because zony still counts that as a "sale"Hope that helps, snoyjeet. Be better.
they can also issue hardware bans that shut your console DRM box down and turn it in to a worthless brickyou never owned your games, and you never even owned your consoleconsoles shouldn't cost more than 1 dollar considering you're just *renting* the device.
>>742399596Not only that, they simultaneously announced that they're closing the PS3 and Vita digital storesLike how tone deaf are they
>>742391616That's nice snoyjeet.Sure would be a shame if I pointed out that those "digital sales" include gachaslop like genshit, because that is counted as a 0 dollar sale Woops! Shattered your gay little like narrative in one fell swoop
>>742400748they're not tone deaf they know exactly what they're doing the problem is they just absolutely despise you.
They already make billions in profit every year from gacha, gta, fortnite, roblox, and gun and ball and having 99.9999% of all third-party releases. The former is also never coming to Nintendo systems (besides Fortnite and some niggerball games obviously). You have companies like Atlus and Bandai Namco who will literally kill themselves in Japan just to suck on Sony's toes. Nothing will happen. GTA6 isn't even out yet which will give them $2 billion within the fiscal year.
>>742400701>Nuh uh! LIES!!!>t. doesnt have any numbers of his own to prove it>>742400536>muh utterly.insignificant outlier of gamers that cant be tracked!Yep. Just look at that tranny-tier delusion. All the makeup and botox in the world wont make you a pretty woman and all the whining about "muh sales!" wont change the fact that a vast majority of those sales are digital.
>>742400818GTA6 is already confirmed coming to switch2 lil snoyjeet.Nice hallucinations though, but in order for ziony to get 2 billion out of GTA, GTA would have to sell 75 million copies.Aka every single barrierstation owner would have to buy it. Never gonna happen.Too bad so sad eh snoyjeet.
>>742398735That's not what it said.
>>742400701same way they counted all those ps4+horizon or ps5+horizon as "game sold"nobody care about horizon and yet it sell like 20 millions
>>742400923Yeah lil bro where's the S2 preorder? And GTA6 is more than the single-player when it's Online that makes the big bucks. Enjoying that S2 Genshit port that was announced at the Direct? Oh wait
>>742400832But we do have the numbers though lil' snoyjeet. The insomniac leaks proved that the physical to digital split is 70-30.No one is falling for your kike spreadsheet spinning lil fella
>>742401053it will come, in a few month, so you will buy it againthen 6 months later they will make the ps6 versionTHEN the pc version, just like they did for gta5
>>742401053The online that doesn't exist and will flop because retailers are saying gta ain't selling shit ATM? The online that zony won't get shit out of, because people will top up shark cards on external stores for cheaper than the barrierstation storeWomp womp
>>742401051Stop being antisnoymetic, you're not supposed to point that out
>>742371125they moved away from exclusives so this was literally the only reason to buy consoles anymoregenuinely why would you buy a digital only console over a pc?
>>742371125yes, because harddrive space is not infinite and people hate having to manage their digital data more than they have to manage a collection of discs.
>>742378408while many prefer digital for convenience and storage reasonspeople still want the option for physical, reserved for games they really like (fifa and cod)it's not that hard to understand
>>742374952GOG needs to talk to some of these Chinese companies and get us hardware
>>742379939what if the preorders are laundered?like some rich people want to kill physical games so they smurfed the preorders to give Sony something to point to in order to justify killing physical?
>>742371125If I can get a game physically, I do. Likewise movies I get on Blu-Ray if I can.But look at the comoletely cucked retards pre-ordering GTA VI. They choose to be slaves.It's not just games you won't be owning, the consoles price rises will lead to you having to subscribe to own a console, paying a subscription to rent it.You will own nothing and be happy.
>>742371125>Digital killed the Physical Gamehttps://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs
>>742371479I haven't bought (buyed) either the PS4 or the PS5. I won't buy the PS6 either. Sony died with the PS3 and even that is generous, it's the console that made me stop caring about Sony
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>>742371125funny thing is i bought the disc edition when it came out thinking i would buy discs but i never did. and honestly i only purchased a few games for it all digital. like astrobot, tlou 1/2, sf6, ff16, split fiction and ff7 rebirth and rebought elden ring and baldurs gate 3 on it even though i have it on pc. the rest of the games i have for it are from ps plus
>>742386937right, just like they thought concord was a good idea...
>>742379939>You'll either play retro only, stop gaming, or own nothing and be happy...Or just pirate the games when they come to PC.
>>742371125Sony has been shooting themselves in the feet for years now. Totally fucking aloof morons run that company. It's like they hate money and retaining loyal customers.
>>742372117Just download an instance of steam on the usb drive
>>742404510Yup
Sony is retarded. More than just sales, having physical games is simply a good way to remind people that your console exists in the public space. Imagine little Timmy, 10, going to Gamestop or whatever other video game place. He sees a wall full of Switch and Xbox games, then in a damp corner all alone, the PlayStation. What console do you think he's gonna ask for to his parents? The one that has Mario and Pokemon? The one that has COD and Fifa? Or the one that has, uh...
>>742387538I'm not a console tard, lmao.
That's because the metrics they use to fudge "digital success" over physical are utter bollocks and include bullshit like DLC sales. In reality physical is still strong. Do you really think the average working class hoodrat or dolescum is buying GTA from anywhere other than CEX lol? The entire console industry is propped up by casuals buying FIFA and GTA and COD used
>>742406934The one that has GTA6, COD, FIFA, Fortnite, Roblox, and gacha (specifically Genshin). In which the parent will ask the cashier who will reply: "Oh a PS5/PS6? Okay."
>>742378408The disk reader of my PS5 stopped working a few years after purchase. Any tutorials out there to fix it just wasted my time. I couldn't be arsed to send it to repairs. And I won't buy a new one so long as the rest of the console still works so of course all that's left is buy digital. The PS4 had a similar problem. Newer consoles fall apart so fast. I won't be buying the PS6.
It's almost like people have a library of PS4 games and also want to watch 4K movies or something.
>>742371125>literallydumb cunt i'm sick of dumb cunts using this word incorrectly
>>742401054>The little tranny actually reported my post and got it deleted >because he couldnt back up his claims and couldnt tolerate that fact eitherI came back to this thread just to mock you for being a seething tranny lmao
>>742371612At that point why not just make it play the disc
>>742371125>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the foot by going full digitalI thought this when Sony started charging money to allow online play. And then it became their biggest success of the decade instead. Now let's see if history repeats itself.
>>742387084>>742385876it was always here thanks to slavs, tertiaries
>>742371125The same why you cucks all switches to PC once they charges you monthly fee for multiplayers? Face it, just like apple cucks, you cucks are gonna slurp the cum of sony's cock forever.
>>742380274It's missing this. The famitsu interview they did is absolutely crazy.
>>742378408>digital download = game saleExcept no?
>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the footThey need to aim higher.
>>742378408>Revenuesony counts 3rd party digital sales as full price, even though they only get 30% from a sale, but they don't do the same for physical never mind counting $5 sales of old, discounted games as a full salecalling those numbers "misleading" would be the understatement of the century
>>742412995>cancelling 8 of the 12 ones plannedWait, wtf were the other two? I thought we were down to the last two already which were Marathon & FairGames$.
>>742371125they've been shooting themselves in the foot for agesremember when they used to have like 400 exclusives a generation and would sell 150M unitsnow they have like 4 exclusives and can't even crack 100M units even though the world population increased by 2 billion people. It's actually fucking crazy how much they've been fumbling every opportunity they've had. I haven't even mentioned the billions of dollars spent on live service games that all had such troubled developments that 90% of them were cancelled before release. I swear to god their management is so fucking stupid man, some of the mistakes are so fucking dumb
>>742413587>sony counts 3rd party digital sales as full price, even though they only get 30% from a sale,Why would they get 30% from the sale of a first party title they developed and sold on their digital platform you fucking inbred?
>>742414101read nigga
>>742414101read again you illiterate monkeygod you're stupid
>>742414180>>742414187Can you idiots not into math or what? 5.8 million first party games sold at $70 digitally would make the equivalent of 67 billion yen.Even if you halve that, its so far ahead of physicals it's not even a contest. Stop coping. There's no fiscal reason for sony to contract disk manufacturers for this shit
>>742414708How about you admit you just thought the post said something else and we pretend the whole thing never happened instead of trying to brush it off and redirect the conversation?
>it's all Gabe Newalls fault that Sony (off the record) paid Rockstar for console exclusivity and simultaneously killed their own physical disc businessYou either accept that either Rockstar or Sony are the villains here. You can choose both if you feel like it but the misdirection will not help you.
>>742371125J
>>742371125Gonna be real, it makes sense. Sony sells these things at a loss. They think that by getting rid of physical media, they'll kill the resale market and make even more money from game sales. It also means that games will never have to drop in price since there's no 3rd-party independent market for them to compete with. I'm just glad this doesn't effect me since I'm not a consolecuck and can make my own physical media for PC games lol.
>>742371125>dickless ps6>still $1500>snoy tranniesl eat it up anyways
>>742371125So what are you going to do about it?Stop buying games?Lmao you won't ever do that and they know it.They keep milking you and implementing ever more anti consumer things.And gamers will thank them for it.
>Sony is literally shooting themselves in the foot No they are metaphorically shooting themselves in the front. If they literally shot themselves in their feet it would be extremely painful.
>>742415937I can choose not to buy a PS6.
>>742378408thats PSplus and free shit to inflate the score
>>742384178Microsoft needs to recreate this ad immediately
What's gonna happen to GameStop when there's no physical games to sell?
>>742416490you could, but you can't really
>>742416745why?
>>742371125Sony just shot themselves in the foot.I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase a PS6, nor will they purchase any of Sony's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Sony has alienated an entire market with this move.Sony, publicly apologize and cancel digital only games for Playstation or you can kiss your business goodbye.
>>742416984lol no
>>742386937Yeah so did Xbox/MS in 2013?
>>742387019>Supported>Dumb game for babies/millenial manchildren >Stupid overrated mechanic whose only appeal is cute girls >Supporyed to hard even got the remake>animeshit>fuck yeah I support that shit
>>742371612Copy pasting the .iso is difficult or something?
>>742382452>If this is successful you can bet your ass that others will follow suitWRONG, RETARDWhat Sony is actually doing is handing the entire physical games market to Xbox. Why would Xbox give up a monopoly that was handed to them FOR FREE?
>>742403248PS3 is awesome
>>742371125so you spent more money on the disc version and youll have to buy the digital version of games anywayseems like sony is winning
>>742418882Yeah it's great but it didn't have 2000 games at launch so everyone ran to the console that made you pay a sub for your own net.
>>742419330Yup. It was so fucking comfy paying games online for free on the PS3. Shit, you can still do that even now. Truly the last based, true PlayStation system. Sony turned into snoy midway through the PS4 generation when killed off Japan Studio.
>>742383586Chat does he know? Said nigger one time? WHOOPS your entire library is gone!
>>742371479total sony death dont even complain about it, just a silence thats easy to mistake for compliance until its too late and they collapse through the floor
>>742378408Yesterday I bought a physical game (twenty dollars) and three digital games (five dollars total.) Sony's storefront is crawling (thousands upon thousands) with dirt cheap indie games that will never see the light of day in physical format.Using that shit to boost up numbers of digital sales is dishonest.
>>742384371I would literally buy a ps6 if they announced a new Wipeout, it's my favorite franchise. But I'm also fine with the series being dead.
>>742372117Retards like you give PC players a bad name. You have full control over the files on your PC, just copy them over and throw in Goldberg so it runs without Steam.
>>742378408how likely is it those digital "sales" include my 3 free monthly games on PSN+
>>742379939thank god, i already own more discs than you could play in a lifetime
>>742371125Discs was about the only thing consoles had over PCs for the longest time. Even if some of those discs were retarded DRM.Honestly though, fucking bizarre. For manufacturing the discs and disc readers for a playstation are close to the cheapest parts for it outside of the shell. This is like trying to save for rent by cutting netflix when your car note is $600, you pay $80 a month in gas, and your go on $90 tinder dates twice a month.>>742378408Does fortnite even have a physical edition?
I do understand going full digital since thats just how people are buying games now. You can talk about the morality of physical ownership all you want, but it doesnt change that most people are buying new games digitally. It just makes sense.But I think what irks me about this is that they arent even attempting to put a positive spin on it. Games won't cost less now without physical disc creation. They arent rolling out ways to share or trade digital games. This isn't supporting some new feature for users.Consumers just get less now so that the company can make more money, and thats it.
>>742396359Yup. This is my plan too. Shit's fuckin' sad but also hilarious. I guess PS5 being a stopping point is aesthetic enough on the shelf. >tfw no .hack quadrilogy remake>tfw still have my OG ps2 discsheheheheeh
>>742385876>prey>2017
>>742422236>It just makes sense.Honestly these words are intrinsically Jewish and this is an argument where reason is the gayest reason to agree with it. It's only being done a measure of control and squeeze blood from a stone to generate more revenue and this stupid idea that people are going to keep paying for inconvenience.
>>742385876>>742385541>>742385406People keep trying to make game streaming happen but data caps and data usage charges are everywhere in the States and games are getting close to 350gb for most AAA releases.That's nothing considering input lag, shitty internet, and the fact none of these services have been able to make something that's more convenient than Game Pass.
>>742422065They want to kill game sharing. You borrowing a game from a friend is $70 that Sony isn’t getting from you.
>>742421645100%.
>>742371125They keep raising the cost of PSN and you guys keep buying it
>>742372117here comes the consolenıgger
>>742378408because they included micro transactions and free to play games in that number lmao
>>742383850i have my brother's ps4 and ps4 pro and i would buy disc ps4 games from time to timei've bought multiple ps3 disc gamesi contemplated getting a ps5 for myself but after that news i will not buy a single playstation or sony product ever againi will only buy digital if i have control over the game files like on steamalso dont expect multiplayer games to be played in single player in this day and age, but even those can be backed up and played offline
Sonybros...
>>742379939>You'll either play retro onlyFine by me, I already do that.
>>742406934I like this gif
>>742412995lmao good point
>>742371125Which is only used for Blu-ray. The vast majority of game sales are digital.
>>742392520Then devs will lose sales as more people becomes pirates. GTA6 was the tsunami and the first consequences are felt now.
>>742395837It means people who owns an account, excluding expired accounts.
>>742380274It's almost as if last week a game sold 50 million digital copies
