Rockstar just made sony change its slogan because of the backlash regarding the new policy of Sony also all the ads on the PS5 of GTA6 went missing suddenly, this is huge I think theyre going to back down
>>742628942>they’re gonna back down we won reddityeah they also “backed down” on shutting down the PS3 store months ago. Look at it now. They’re already changing the factories. Any “we listened to what you have said” is just a delay for the inevitable.
>you will own nothing and- WAIT COME BACK
>>742628942I think you're a fucking retard that has a downright naive amount of faith in the industry.You are definitely under 25. That's a fact.
Anyone who thinks fat autists complaining on the internet have that much power is an actual clinical medical retard.You utter fucking morons have no idea how much money brown children are going bring in. It's simply beyond your understanding because you're so stupid.
>Sony and Rockstar single handedly causing The Great Gaming Goy Schism
>>742628942rthe deal was just the announcement of the pro versionthey corrected the image removing the ps5 with disc drive
>>742629072kek
In hindsight, I am glad that I built my first PC almost 2 years ago. Console gaming went to shit.
>>742628942you mean rockstar who are releasing digital only GTA 6, that rockstar?
>>742629241you sucking that cock good goyim
>>742629241So how is Star Wars and Ubisoft doing goyim?
>>742629241>Anyone who thinks fat autists complaining on the internet have that much power is an actual clinical medical retardtell that to: the FBI, scientologists, Epstien, that army that got airstriked, shia lebouf, etcetera
>>742628942Honestly I'm probably not buying a ps6 if there's no discs. What's the point of difference when I own a pc with a controller? What are you marketing here exactly?
Too bad cause the PS5 Pro Duo will be the definitive way to play GTA6 and there is only a digital option now.
>people talking shit about steam machine priceyou dont want to see how much the new consoles will cost
They're not going to back down. Logically they know that GTA 6 is the one juggernaut title with enough clout and guaranteed success to force this change. If they back down the wait for the next opportunity to force digital only will be GTA 7 which realistically is 15 years away. They're not going to waste a decade-and-a-half of digital only revenue potential just because of a single month's social media backlash that will be forgotten when the next GTA trailer drops.
>>742628942>I think theyre going to back downoh, to be so young and naive again, i almost envy you, you sweet summer child, almost
>>742629526>still doesn't get itpatheticnothing will improve
>>742629241this guy gets ittoo bad poor physicaliggers will never understand this simple fact
>>742628942>the company that was planning to send you a code in a box because they didn't want to pay for a disk release is going to shame the company selling the disks for not keeping the disk factory openwhat?
>>742629898I'd rather be poor than retarded.
>>742629779But the consequences will drag behind them people start to switch to pc and steam people will alway remember the whole store shut down and libary of bought movie deleted not to mention ps exclusives on ps5 were weak as fuck and ps5 itself was outdone by mid pc early in it's life, you can't just shit on table all the time and expected people to always just forget and move on
Suppose you get drafted into military service for 5 years and you have no access to your PS5 anymore. You're fucked. You've lost your whole digital library.
>>742630014good thing you're already both
>>742630109So you aren't aware you are retarded? Sorry to hear that it must be difficult.
>>742630076the ps cinco is coming with me to israel, simple as.
>>742628942>'backs down'>tries it again every 2 years until it workscool.only solution is to get a new hobby.
The same Rockstar who doesnt want to release GTA6 on disc btw
>>742628942>they'll back down any day now!sure bro...
This game is mind breaking /v/tards in ways we can’t even comprehend
I think we all knew physical media would one day not be a thing however it's the fact that Sony, the most money-grabbing company in the gaming space has called the shots which has left a bad taste in everybodies mouth.The company with the digital store front that regularly sells games for $70 is now deciding to cull all physical media? Yeah no fucking shit, does a beggar give his last dollar to a rich man? No he fucking doesn't.
What essentials does the PS3 store even have at this point?
>>742630235i don't expect them to back down i just hope lot's of people realize that playstation is usless shit inferior to pc in every way and company itself is run by fuckin ghouls, and this leads them to switching to pc gaming
>>742628942Oh yeah, GTA6 the game that isn't releasing physical discs on release, is being really disappointed at Sony's decision for abandoning physical discs.
>>7426304173rd strike online edition
>>742630417Xenogears, Parasite Eve
>>742630054>people start to switch to pc and steamDude, come on. They will not, they just won't. Some people will, but the majority will just keep buying PlayStations and digital games for it because it's easier for them. Just think of an average normie who bus CoD and FIFA every year and doesn't hang out in online discussions or collect games. They just won't care. They have long since convinced themselves that PCs are too difficult and troublesome and for nerds and will keep avoiding them even if some company manufactures prebuilt PCs that are cheaper than PS5s.
>>742630235They can reverse it back.And if they don't, who fucking cares?
>>742630524>>742630559I said essentials
>>742629460Good timing on your part. Specs?
>>742630139how utterly ironic, enjoy wallowing in your own shit-filled britches, retard
>>742630559>>742630524those aren't available on piss4 and piss5 piss store minus? you'll have to forgive me, i don't ever waste money on westoidal hardware, so i don't know what is actually available on those shitty platforms
>>742628942Please explain how Rockstar made Sony change its logo and what does it have to do with backlash?
>>742630607>They can reverse it back.It would be an extremely expensive reversal. Sony has already spent money shutting down disc production and selling off the manufacturing equipment. If it decided to go back, it would have to rebuild or rebuy much of that infrastructure. That wouldn't be cheap. They'd probably have to raise the prices of PS+, consoles, physical editions, and more to help cover the costs. At this point, it's too late. Time to move on. Sony can probably afford to lose the 10% of buyers who are obsessed with physical media.
Cope.
>>742628942They're not going to reverse the repurposing of their disc printing plants. They made a shit decision but it's likely permanent. It's as close to final nail in the coffin as it gets. The smart move is to just move on and try and get some money back for your console second hand at your local gamestop or whatever and don't bother doing business with them again.
>>742634469"you will own nothing"But physical is the one you don't really own. Digital is true ownership.
>>742629241Broke people can't even afford to buy it and it's stuck on the most expensive consoles with no games
>>742629767TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS
>>742630467r* has enough of yheir own backlash to deal with. they just asking for a seperate trial
>>742633989Sony is in the same place as RAM, DRAM and GPU companies when it comes to that disc shit. They could keep making discs for consumers OR they could make micro-lenses that AI companies will pay out the nose for. The choice is simple for them. Everyone is bailing out of consumer tech if they have the ability to because it's easy money.
>>742635130the company wont come to my house and steal my diskfuck off jew
>digital only>prices are still physicali remember when digital games were a new thing and the prices were cheaper because they did not need to make the discs, cover, etc, and then they bumped that price up, lmao
>>742635741You're right. But someone else can.
>>742628942It's funny Sony fanboys were like "oh it was just meant to be temporary" like bruh. Sony paid for this shit. Probably wanted to use it all year. Rockstar told them to fuck off we don't want bad PR right now
>>742634914slop
>>742635757They are cheaper. Games have dropped massively in price thanks to digital. A game like Helldivers 2 would sell for $60 or $70 in the 90s. Now it sells for $40.
>>742629241Keep getting scared Sony shill
>>742635849A game like Helldivers couldn't exist in the 1990s, anon.
>>742635658funny that, considering the pro has gone up a whopping £89 and the price of NVME alone have done a 3x
Sony's transformation from the early days into a totally demonic corporation is complete.
>>742636027The power of digital.
>>742628942GTA6 pre-order numbers have been incredibly low, there's panic behind the scenes
>>742636878I prefer every game I played in the 90s over Helldivers
>>742628942that isn't a slogan
>>742628942I'm telling you, anons.Sony WILL force you to pay for PS+ (if you refuse they will delete your account), they will revive Concord and force you to play that as well. Mark my words.
>>742637010Given the budget of GTA6 I wouldn't be surprised if 50m sales isn't enough to cover their costs. That's why the game will be full of microtransactions
>>742637145I can believe Sony might one day require you to pay to keep your account but they won't revive Concord
>>742637102>HM ACKSHUALLYKill yourself
>>742628942>Hey, we're gonna make our game digital only!>Cool, we're gonna make our console digital only!>NO NO NO NO NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT REEEEEEEEEEEEEI feel a bit of dissonance in Rockstar's approach here.
>>742637374Based retard, fending off knowledge
>>742637154GTA real money isnt in game sales but in hooking a whole gen into buying shark cards for the online mode
>>742628942I'm not naive enough to think they'll backtrack on anything. They're malicious enough and stupid enough to run through with it anyway
>>742637547the marketing campaign is probably over and op is a console warring faggot grasping at straws.
>>742635658Micro-lenses do sound like serious badass tech, imagine taking upskirt videos from 150 meters away
>>742630235Well they literally have to maintain those factories for at least another year and a half so it's definitely possible for them to reverse the decision.
>>742637759>game releases in November>no gameplay shown>marketing campaign is over
>>742637692I think its a natural evolution of things. Instead of waiting for a discless PS6 release they decided to make the announce nowIts a smart move because in one year normies wont remember they were supposed to be outraged over it and they would be busy being outraged about other menial thing as the World keeps moving into a global crisis scenarioI play games just to evade myself from real life but at least Im self aware of my apathy
>>742637309Only people who care about Concord are the suckers who bought the physical disc
>>742638029the app logo changed when the preorder date was revealed so that campaign is probably over, yes.
>>742628942They temporarily changed it to announce preorders were open for GTA6
>>742629460Built mine right at the end of 2024/start of 2025. My thinking? Trump was going to fuck the world up with tariffs and god only knows what else, so I better do all my big ticket purchases. So brand new custom pc, new phone, and I wish I had bought a new car then but whatever. 2/3 not so bad.
The weirdest thing about this is Sony owns Blu Ray, they make lots of money off of it and can make discs cheap. They make them so cheap I would have put money on it that the ps6 would have had a disc drive but I guess I thought wrong.The ps5 is also the best sony 4k disc player there is as the normals ones they sell famously freeze when you play long movies in them. I guess us movie collectors are gonna have to buy the Panasonic ub820 forever.
>>742628942Even R* itself posted some ads saying GTA6 plays best on PS5 but they took them down. lol
>>742630076You're an idiot. Every single military duffle or bag contains either a ps5, ps4 or an Xbox series x. When they arent real life role playing cowadooty, they go back to the barracks, slap on some jockstrap and spank each other, and play digital cowadooty.
>>742638029I have never purchased a gta game after looking at gameplay. I have bought every single mainline pc release since the 90s.
>>742637994No they don't, they've already shut down the euro factory, most of the remaining discs will be printed for Wolverine in SeptemberAfter that COD FH6 GTA and sports games are codes in a box since they're all over 100 gigs.That leaves Tomb Raider, Until Dawn 2 and RECV in '27
>>742638562Anon are you retarded? Do you that's it for games releasing on PS5 for the next year and a half?
>>742629241>You utter fucking morons have no idea how much money brown children are going bring inRegardless of their color, children aren't buying consoles
>>742638354Who the fuck buys blu ray movies anymore. Everything is on stream services nowIts like buying music on cd or vinyl, a thing of the past for boomer nostalfags
>>742629460Same.
>>742635757>i remember when digital games were a new thing and the prices were cheaper because they did not need to make the discsLiterally never happened, they have always been 10 bucks more expensive since the fucking ps3 era for absolutely no reason.
>>742638640Nope just the ones that are going to take up most of the remaining inventory of blank disc.
>>742638873Why is it that Steam gets shit for monopoly while Sony can get away with fucking consumers as the only storefront on their system?
>>742638354Physical everything is dying, that's the problem. It's not just games, but movies as well. Most people on 4chan probably pirate all their shit and normalfags are streaming or pirating too.
>>742630603>Dude, come on. They will not, they just won't.You seem to think they're stupid. That may be true, but stupid people know enough to follow. This is how Xbox died, Xbox did marginally worse, everyone migrated to PS5
>>742639035That's why most movie physical sets shifted to the focus on collector items. I don't get why Sony doesn't do that. Keep physical disks but only release special editions that are pricier.
>>742638194They still had an ad at their website for GTA6 a couple days after the announcement of this disc end. I know because that spooky "if you dont login for 3 years to your PSN account you lose it" clause caused me to go to Sony's website and login. I checked today and its gone.
You guys really don't get how corporate golems think. They will never back down on something they think will make them more money in the short-term, and cutting out physical means spending less money which means higher profit margins. More conceptual things like PR and customer retention aren't really considered, though they are interested in growth. The idea is always that the company can stagnate or get bigger, but it can't shrink, this is considered impossible until it happens. As such, the goal is always to avoid stagnation (because you want more money) and pursue exponential growth (because you want more money) at the expense of literally everything else. A downward trend isn't even a consideration, so all actions are taken with the idea that even if it causes a little hiccup, it will normalize quickly as the cattle fall back in line.They're usually correct, and they'll be correct with this too. People will fuss a bit for maybe another month or two and then move on because they have short attention spans and this isn't really a pressing issue for them, just a minor annoyance. Some other problem will crop up that will take precedence in their mind and they'll forget all about this thing making them upset.
>>742638873The reason is price parity retard, they didn't want to undercut brick and mortar shops and start a price war with itself. Now that Gamestop and Walmart are irrelevant it's no longer an issue
>>742639130Because the consoles would need to have a disc unit and they need to keep the disc burning factories runningIts obviously too costy just to sell a hqndful of collector editions
>>742639130Will the customers pay that premium though? For games they really love maybe but that would probably still result in less physical sales as people would rather pay $40 or $50 less for a digital copy without the extras outside of a couple of exceptions. I really like FF7 and I bought Rebirth day 1 but I didn't buy the CE set because it was so much more expensive. Shit, even with the new Fire Emblem I don't want to pay the $50 difference for the CE.
>>742638665If something is worth buying, it's worth owning. If I just want a digital copy, torrents are right there man
>>742639130They don't want to give Walmart and Amazon 30% and maintain a factory of 300 workers for dwindling returns
>>742639021>remaining inventory of blank disc.???Do you not understand how disc manufacturing works?
>games go digital and the prices get cheaperwould you? bear in mind they are not going to get cheaper in reality, only pricier
>>742639313>the disc burning factories runningThe what?
>>742639024Because most anti-steamfag don't even know old 60 bucks full priced games were always just 60 bucks on steam.The devs pay the cut, not the consumer.>>742639296>undercutThey literally could have just sold it at max price, 60 bucks like physical games were and wouldn't have undercut shit, instead they added a 10-buck playstation tax for absolutely no reason other than to nickle and dime you.
>>742634914NOW what will I line my shelves with and never play ahh I need by plastic game cases and I need them NOW my life is meaningless without getting to look at my game case spines every once in a while.
>>742639976the "I only play PS+ games" anon
>>742635130Only on PC though
>>742628942Sony should update their logo and slogan to reflect their current company ethics.
>>742640202Be honest, he can't afford PS+
>>742635130>Digital is true ownership.Only if bought from GOG. Sony isn't GOG.
>>742629767Sony and Xbox sell consoles for lower than it costs to make them, and hope to recoup the losses through the cost of games and subscriptions (hence the push for digital). Valve aren't doing that, their main business is a store that runs on any PC regardless of who made it anyway, so they don't care about selling Decks and Machines in mass quantities, these are niche devices for like 2% of their userbase who would be willing to buy them. So next consoles will undoubtedly be more expensive but they are still going to be cheaper that Steam Machines, because they need to sell a lot of them unlike Valve
>>742641286>So next consoles will undoubtedly be more expensivethat's all you needed to say
>>742629241You are now asking low income gibs me dat children to shell out +1,000 for the next console, $200 minimum for their yearly ball & gun, $100 dollars for the cpntroller when stick drift kills it every year by design, and +$80 a year to play online.I've given up on Sony, last console. Gta 6 is the last game I'm buying brand new as well.
>>742642012>he'll still buy itWay to prove his point lol.
>>742639047>You seem to think they're stupidThey are. Something something think of how dumb the average person is and realize that half the population is dumber>This is how Xbox died, Xbox did marginally worse, everyone migrated to PS5Migrating from one console to another is a much lower barrier than from a console to PC
>>742641210That's not true. Drm has little relevance to ownership.
>>742641286>Sony and Xbox sell consoles for lower than it costs to make themNo console has been sold at a loss since the PS360 gen
>>742628942k keep me posted
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>>742642127Yeah I will still buy it. Waited long enough to play this fucking game and a whole lot of samey games in between. Fuck indie, fuck jrpg's, fuck cod. Fuck sony and the street apes who worship them too, more to life than gaming so why tolerate this?
>>742637145They won't revive Concord, but they'll have plenty of other exciting new projects they can try and push this with instead
VIDEOGAME CRASH OF 2028PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN!!!
>>742628942>The company who is going to release the game only in digital format doesn't want the backlash from the company who will stop making physical games.Nice hypocrisy Rockstar.
>>742629241xenoblade is an award winning series because autists wanted 3 wii games to get translated
>>742638659Their parents are though, and consoles are still cheaper than PCs
>>742639024The only people calling Steam a monopoly are Timmy's shills
>>742643090Are people out there calling out both companies or is it just Sony?
>>742643308It is more like people are wholly shitting on Sony and then a bit of the backlash is going to Rockstar (but not enough). Some think that both are in cahoots to push for digital only format.
>>742643139>and consoles are still cheaper than PCsTime and again this has been proven false. Also nowadays consoles require upgrades, almost like they're shitty PCs
>>742643410Considering that Rockstar was shilling the PS5 so people could but GTA from Sony (until R* decided to pull out their PS5 campaign after seeing all the flak), I believe that both were indeed in that agenda.
They'll just attempt to do it again at some other point when they slowly turn the temperature back up. Or do some other work around kike shit like Nintendo did with the key cards.
>>742629460Same bro. It's like taking the last chopper outta Kabul
>>742628942too late these fucking theives bricked my ps4 fuck them fuck ms fuck all the gaming companiesim going to unlawfare my pcs and pirate everything.
>>742630607>They can reverse it backit will be a pain in the ass for the technicians there lmaosomething similar happened in the fabric where i work, our boss said something like>hey guys, we will never produce this model again, dissemble these machines>3 months later>actually, nvm, we will still produce that model for some years lol, reassemble everything
>>742643580Genuinely tell me where do I get a PC that has the specs comparable to those of a PS5 or higher at a similar or lower price, and don't point me to knockoff chinese parts from shady marketplaces
>>742644631>says fabric instead of factoryEastern European?
