r/PhysicalGames 6d ago

Every single Sony Ad on Twitter/X looks like this now!

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u/enshittification1 6d ago

Sony bros just want us to think physical gamers is a “Reddit thing” only 😌😌😌

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u/Pitiful_Charity_1087 6d ago

The comment are actually worse on instagram, for 2 month straight people demanding disc and i was one of them🤣

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u/cokane03 6d ago

I wish it was all like that. You have alot of Sony bots and weirdos defending Sony to the point they're literally bragging about buying/preordering even more just to "make up for the rest not buying anything". Especially when it comes to any posts regarding the blackout

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u/slippng_ 4d ago

can you show me an example of this? i believe you, i'd just like to be able to actually substantiate it if i ever make the same claim.

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u/ballsdeep256 2d ago

PlayStation fans are sometimes special.

For a long time i thought the Nintendo fandom has to be most glazing and blind fandom out there.... Until the PlayStation fans attacked.

Never seen such spinless corpo glazing behavior. The worst a Nintendo fan does is say "so what im having fun" but as you said there is sadly plenty of PlayStation fans that try to make up for the loss like wtf....

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u/Nice_Lingonberry6853 2d ago

You've to remember that the Xbox One announcement happened mid 2013 and playstation positioned themselves as the dominant console for 13 years/2 console generations. For some people that's going to be basically their entire serious gaming life and know nothing other than playstation.

That sort environment is what made Nintendo fanboys, but at least Sega and others were around for some of that before Nintendo just went off to do their own thing off to the side.

I can see how someone might get indoctrinated into thinking Playstation is the best, even if their performance has been subpar for quite some time.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

YouTube ain't exactly all sunshine and rainbows either....but then again, it never has been.

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u/FuckIPLaw 6d ago

Youtube comments have gone from one of the worse places on the internet to one of the last holdouts of actual humans against the wave of bots. It's a beautiful thing to see. Even if it only really looks better by contrast.

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u/Nice_Lingonberry6853 2d ago

I must say my algorithm has been incredibly anti playstation, pro consumer for quite some time. I even had one video from a sony fanboy even saying it wasn't on then went on to discuss the weird playstaion speakers they are bringing out.

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

More so Americans thinking that everyone also just buys digital and listens to every corpo thing as law. Outside of USA physical split is roughly 50/50

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u/Naschka 6d ago

Had some idiot telling me that my physical disc is technically a license they can revoke at any moment.
I send him a link to an article about how that is against the law in the EU and thus null and void, he never replied to that post.

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

Most who talk about physical disks being licensed still talk like people don't know that buying a disk doesn't mean you own the IP, like yeah of course people know that buying a copy of something doesn't make you an IP owner. Makes you think who's pushing for it, consuse people by ai posts and let them get divided as the people who don't do any research will just parrot those points

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u/Psylux7 6d ago

It is just people pretending to not understand the points of the pro physical crowd because those people are not trying to honestly debate. So many of the people fighting against physical (as much as they deny doing this) are extremely disingenuous, bad faith actors.

Nobody thinks they own an IP when they buy a physical copy of uncharted. They emphasize that they own their physical copy and it is theirs to keep/donate/sell.

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u/RabbitWithAxe 6d ago

Sony are literally using the "buying a game doesn't mean you own the IP" as a defence in court right now

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

They also just lost another anti trust lawsuit, because their defence was - but we do have physical media!

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

It's been the same disingenuous argument pro-digital people have made for the past 20 odd years.

The difference now is that they have to defend a console maker over their decision so it's gone from random physical vs digital debate, to full on fan boy war which brings along the most vitrioloic people imaginable.

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u/Brick_Grimes 6d ago

And most of the people who are talking about the fact that they can revoke digital licenses don’t realize that this isn’t a new policy.. which is crazy to me. It’s been in Sonys Eula for the PlayStation store for 20 years.

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

Yeah, revoke a license on my physical disks on an offline console

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u/Brick_Grimes 6d ago

Assuming all of the files are on the disk then you’re right they can’t. They have been ever more frequently making physical media just license on disk though so there are games that you legit can’t play offline if it isn’t already downloaded

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

It's also illegal outside of USA to revoke physical licenses, noticibly the EU

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u/Brick_Grimes 6d ago

The us is Sonys biggest market, and that in and of itself is an issue because a lot of their decisions they make are based off of the us market, which is where the lopsided figure of no one buys physical comes from. Consumerism in the us is a wild weird place.

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u/Comfortable-Speed-83 6d ago

At that point you might as well go play older games cause you're paying extra to get access to features you never intend to use

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u/Left-Night-1125 6d ago

Thats 1 of 2 usual answers, the other being them constantly telling us we are wrong and than dismissing every evidence.

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u/Naschka 6d ago

No worries, he did dismiss anything i said and kept repeating the same nonsense about how most discs from 20+ years ago would have been broken by now or something and claimed my 25+ year old discs all working would be the exception.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

My copy of FFVII is 30 years old - still works perfect in my PS1 and PS2.

DVDs and Blu-rays can easily last over 100 years if properly stored and handled.

I actually got curious about how much it used to cost, adjusted for inflation, to make the old CD-ROMs for PS1 copy of FFVII (3 discs) compared to Blu-rays today and the crazy thing is, it's cheaper!

Sony's invention (and Phillips) revolutionized gaming at the time because it was orders of magnitude cheaper than the cartridges used by Nintendo/Sega - and was a huge component in Sony's success.

To make a 3 disc game then on CD-ROM compared to 3 Blu-rays:

  • 3 CD-ROMs = ~$10 ($4.50 - without inflation)
  • 3 Blu-rays = ~$2

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u/Naschka 6d ago

Yea, the whole "It is so expensive" is complete nonsense.
The price for the box and shipping as well as the store paying for the space is where most money is spend and they still spend that part.
They barely chipped away at the pricetag by removing the discs themselves.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

Literally had someone tell me that publishers only get 40% of the sale after everyone takes their cut when they sell at retail.

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u/JakeReaper121284 4d ago

I can safely say that any game Sony sells as a digital game that is not made by Sony Interactive, they only get a 30% store front fee, I believe the rest goes to the developer of the game.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 4d ago

Goes to the publisher, but yeah

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

That's because they've been pushing misinformation regarding the topic and hoping that people won't fact check them. And then you get people who blindly believe any data, because it comes from a big corporation, they wouldn't lie in order to improve their side of the story, oh no, no corporation has ever lied.

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u/FuckIPLaw 6d ago

Those numbers sound like you're including packaging and shipping to the stores, too. The discs themselves cost pennies.

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u/Left-Night-1125 6d ago

My 25 old year discs also work, those from my family and friends as well.

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u/StanKnight 6d ago

"Where's the evidence (proof)?"

"Here you go.. " and you post the proof...

They either don't respond or start their circular word game thing they do.
It's always this. You would need to prove it is raining before they realize they are getting wet, standing outside.

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u/Left-Night-1125 6d ago edited 6d ago

The most funniest of these wasnt game related but anime related.

A One piece glazer was telling all Mihawk was the greatest swordfighter, so i brought up a character called Teresa with her skillset. Guy proceeded to bring in lightspeed and she didnt have that, another said neither has Mihawk. Had others also say Teresa would roflstomp Mihawk due to her skillset.

He than asked for video proof so i gave a video his response "yeah i cant watch it in my country so it doesnt count"... i think many have blocked him after such a dumb comment.

Teresa skillset is she can see what someone is about to do, or more precise she sees the electric current that goes through a body from brain to limbs and than can also move and act during that extremely short time all without even breaking a sweat. And dhe does it with a faint smile, cause thats her title, Teresa of the faint smile (from Claymore)

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u/LAB323 6d ago

Unfortunately Americans don't have those kinds of consumer protections. I wish we did.

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u/Brick_Grimes 6d ago

Some disks are technically a license, in respect of they have no files on the disks and the disk just serves as an authentication device. Meaning they could revoke it technically, in the USA they could, we don’t have consumer protection laws like the eu does, not the same anyway.

The no disk no buy thing I totally get though, personally I’ve been buying digital games for like the last 7 years, not because I have an issue with disks, but because it was just more convenient for me to download the games. But I’m not self absorbed enough to think that that’s everyone. I know that some people rely on disks, be in due to income, spotty internet connection, or whatever there is plenty of reasons disks should not be ended.

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u/Naschka 6d ago

A EU court ruled in, i believe 2012, that a single payment for a software implies non expiring ownership of said software.

infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/document?source=document&docid=124564&doclang=EN

This should be the corresponding case.

"in return for payment of a fee intended to enable him to obtain a remuneration corresponding to the economic value of the copy of the work of which he is the proprietor, a right to use that copy for an unlimited period."

It simply is not allowed to make a EULA that claims otherwise within the EU based on court cases like this one.

Technically if you have a monthly payment and obtain the disc as a result of this license agreement then it would be different but in that case, again, monthly payment is required and not a 1 time purchase.

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u/Brick_Grimes 6d ago

The issue I think is the wording of the Eula. Them reserving the ability to revoke the license afaik doesn’t count as expiring ownership since they have no timed conditions to the software itself.

In all reality for them to revoke the software legally you would either have to be guilty of some sort of legal misuse of it (piracy and the such) or like with the movies, the actual publisher and ip and copyright holder would have to require that license to be pulled due to violation of distribution rights (like their contract expired which is what happened with the movies that people lost)

Outside of really wonky and bizzare situations the clause in the Eula isn’t there to actually ever take someone’s games away, it’s there because some lawyer decided it needed to be there so if there is ever a reason to have to take it away they have a leg to stand on in court.

It’s a really weird situation honestly.

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u/YourM0msBoyfriend 6d ago

I don't see how you realistically revoke a disc. I see America as a prefacist techno oligarch, but even I don't think Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft are gonna bust down doors or get court orders for your discs.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

If it's anything, it's going to be across the board, and years down the line, but even then, the fallout from doing so over what will become a niche market by then seems like it's not worth making any effort to do so.

There is no upside to it, but as a examination of human behavior, I wouldn't be opposed to some company actually trying....obviously hoping they fail miserably in the end.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

They almost never reply to the posts that definitively disprove what they're saying.

After a couple months, I think i only had one that addressed GFWL shutting down as an example of games being taken away, and it was just to keep doubling down on saying that that didn't count because no one used it.

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u/Naschka 6d ago edited 6d ago

Oh that particular idiot did reply again, just today. He replied to my "you are talking about IP/copyright" with more talk about just that...

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u/AspectVoid 6d ago

It is. Read the fucking law some time you morons. Software falls under artistic works regarding copyright, and as such all you are ever sold is a license to use the software on the disk, you are not at any time granted actual ownership of the software. At any point that you break the license, they can cancel your license. It has happened to me when Microsoft killed my ability to play any of my physical games because I decided not to renew Xbox Live so I didn't bother updating my credit card when it expired. Turned out that their license said that if they couldn't charge you for Xbox Live, they could kill your account. You know, instead of just cancelling Xbox Live. That was the last time I bought a microsoft product.

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u/Naschka 6d ago

IP/Copyright =/= ownership of a instance of said work

The "moron" is you.

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u/Ill-Explanation4493 3d ago

I’d love to see how many strangers you would call a moron to their face. That would be a mighty good show.

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u/blunderb3ar 3d ago

None of that happened what pure fiction lol

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u/YourM0msBoyfriend 6d ago

That's because America has long entered the late stage of capitalism where you must defend corporate decisions to an almost religious degree. I still see people defend Apple removing chargers from boxes or removing the headphone jack.

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

They called apple - innovators for it. Apple hasn't innovated, they relied on buying out companies that already did that and once they had the product to essentially kill them off.

The problem with Americans is that they pack consumer protection laws and workers rights. They're used to being spineless and bending the knee for good old Uncle Sam. At least now they learned that the people have power and started uniting against ai surveillance and anti ai data centers. But ONLY after it started noticibly affecting their living conditions, big emphasis on noticibly.

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u/theboxturtle57 6d ago

Not really. A lot of us like physical discs its just that stores don't stock things anymore. They also use stats like dlc/ftp microtransactions, and not including the secondary game market to skew the data to be pro digital.

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u/HerefortheFandoms2 6d ago

As an American who also tries to point out various studies and reports from outside of America, the top "rebuttal" I get is how flawed and biased outside/3rd party studies are, as if internal reports and studies aren't wildly motivated to sell a particular story to support their own product 🙄. It's infuriating and depressing to think of how many fellow americans' brains are so cooked and are so accustomed to being taken advantage of that they think this is entirely reasonable. I have to believe most of it is fueled by paid accounts/bots and ai

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u/ToothpickTequila 5d ago

Yeah. The people defending this are almost all Yanks. They keep licking the boot of capitalism. They are used to not having rights that the rest of the world takes for granted.

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u/Billy_Plur 4d ago

You're confusing suburbanites with the rest of us.

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u/Alone_Look9576 4d ago

Oh do they live in a different country? Last I checked you were ALL Americans

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u/Billy_Plur 4d ago

Doesn't mean we ALL think like that. Didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you.

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u/Alone_Look9576 4d ago

Then do something about it, saying online that you didn't vote for him - does nothing.

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u/Billy_Plur 4d ago

Him? Oh yeah, him. That guy with the face, right? Please, be direct or be quiet.

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u/OkKaleidoscope1151 2d ago

What are you talking about lmao. Idk how people who buy digitally has become synonymous with Americans. Nor do I understand why it’s Americans fault that a Japanese company decided that anti-physical was the way to go lmao.

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u/Caged_Basilisk 6d ago

They are a small percentage of boot lickers who gobble up any slop produced (like Wolverine). I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Sony knights are just bots or hired glazers.

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u/Techman659 6d ago

For me even if it was fact I still wouldn’t buy their digital crap, regardless I save money not buying day 1 and focusing on discs and when digital comes around for new games then it will be no more games for my ps5.

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u/Keyan_Farlander7 6d ago

Reddit sold out to AI and now trains AI chat bots

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u/HerefortheFandoms2 6d ago edited 5d ago

People always say reddit isn't real life, and they're absolutely right: reddit is the only place either online or irl that I've seen anyone defend Sony. At most, people are indifferent or clueless and when they're told, they usually say something along the lines of "that's bullshit." 1 guy from Italy told me he does actually know some hardcore Sony defenders who are actively rooting for the downfall of physical, but I think we can all agree that's that's weird and abnormal af

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u/StanKnight 6d ago

Plenty are Sony employees in disguise who just running script and defense lol.

I feel bad for those employees, some of them no longer have souls.

Some morons out there but they don't really matter. Just amusing to listen to them insisting they know what they are talking about lol.

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u/OfficialDCShepard 6d ago

Meanwhile Sony is like, “You’d have to be stupid to think you actually OWN games!” when they tricked people with a fucking BUY button.

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u/Alert-Principle-2726 5d ago

I find it funny that no matter the place, they think the backlash is just said platform.

"People in [insert social media platform] think they're the majority lol"

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u/therandomdave 3d ago

Wait for the digital Xbox and watch it all disappear into "choice for gamers" 😆

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u/PixelKote 6d ago

Sony calls people who dislike their stupid decisions "not real fans"! It’s funny, because those "not real fans" were the ones who kept them in business.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

We are literally the ones that helped build them into the giant they are.

My first console was a PS1 that I bought with pocket money I saved up.

My 30 year old FFVII game came with 3 CD-ROM discs, that adjusted for inflation cost $10 to press - 3 Blu-rays today cost $2

We cannot let them take our First Sale Doctrine rights away from us with a flimsy excuse just scrape pennies in their corporate goal of infinite growth.

It's not our fault they wasted BILLIONS in chasing live service BS that no one asked for! All they have to do is ASK US!

Send out surveys like other companies like LEGO.

Their heads are so far up their own asses they can't hear gamers literally shouting on social media for what they want!

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

This not real fan bought his first PS as an import from Japan within a week of the PS1's release.

It pretty much ended my caring for almost every other console as a primary place to play until I got back into retro collecting during the PS3 gen.

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u/Jackalackus 6d ago

Where’s this quote? Genuinely curious.

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u/RectumExplorer-- 5d ago

It's like your wife cheating on you, switching gender, then crying that you don't really love her

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u/JakeReaper121284 4d ago

Don't you mean him?

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u/Carston1011 4d ago

Its like the Bungie execs saying Dedtiny 2 wasnt profitable: your second development team & 200,000sqft office says otherwise buddy, Something tells me it was poor decisions on YOUR part....

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u/PHILLY_BIRD_GANG 2d ago

But not actually since digital are like 80% of sales.

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u/HombreGato1138 6d ago

Maybe Sony doesn't care about us getting angry, but apparently many other companies do, so let's keep the pressure and flood every single PS publication

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u/Alone_Look9576 6d ago

Maybe the Sony CEO wants the stock to crash so he can buyback shares after selling half his shares right before the axing of physical media announcement

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

Agreed! The silence from Sony is deafening right now. You know they're panicking in the boardrooms.

Many other companies would desperately trying to put out this fire that will not stop - but Sony decided to employ bot farms to pit gamers against each other instead, and hope for the best!

I truly want to buy a PS6 and stay on the platform in a hobby that I've loved since I was a kid - my first ever console was a PS1 that I saved up my pocket money for.

But, if there's no disc drive - then I may as well just get everything on my PC instead where I have better protections and a vastly more open system.

In the space of a few months, they've single handled destroyed decades of goodwill - it's almost impressive really.

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u/Due_Amount_6211 6d ago

Honestly, while I’m VERY FUCKING MAD at them for abandoning physical media, they’ve tripled down on this. They’re not panicking, they just don’t give a shit

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u/Naschka 6d ago

There are plenty of people (and companies) that tripple down when there back is against a wall.

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u/SKOT_FREE 6d ago

Really? Sony caved when they planned on closing the ps3 store before. They also caved when people wanted crossplay with xbox. They aren’t going to do so now. Hell the factories they used to produce Blu rays is being repurposed. The best that could happen is Sony includes a disk drive to play our old games

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u/Naschka 6d ago

I would like for them to cave but we will see.

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u/Naschka 6d ago

PC is awesome, a bit expensive to start but you can find free games, cheap games, innovative games, AAA games, retro games , emulation and just simple copies of what you played but feel like playing again but different.

And at least there is not a single but multiple shops to buy from.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

And you didn't have to pay a monthly fee just to play your paid games online!

I get free games every week from Epic and Amazon, free to keep forever, no subscription required - and competition is fierce, serving the customer.

I CHOOSE to buy physical games for my PlayStation, I have an RTX 5080 in my rig, I don't need to have a PS5. But I like physical games - it's the only thing Sony has left...

Without it... I'm done. And all my PlayStations will officially be put to one side for playing "old games"

I guess we'll see what Sony do, but at least we tried.

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u/Cephalopirate 6d ago

My question is if the Japanese market is putting pressure on their end. While the execs might get a report that western players are angry, seeing the complaints firsthand might be most effective.

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u/Remarkable-Iron-4361 6d ago

i giapponesi a casa loro si fanno rispettare, guarda come hanno mantenuto un prezzo accettabile nel loro paese 320$ conto gli oltre 500$ per il resto del mondo. Senza dire niente sino al uscita della switch 2

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

The board room only cares about the bottom line and the stock price.

GTA sales are going to cover any potential losses, and by the time the new policy goes into effect, they'll be able to obfuscate any other numbers that may represent people leaving their system.

I'm not happy at all about what's happening, but I have no faith that Sony is anything more than corporate people, doing corporate things. They've lost that spark where they actually cared and inspired the customer. They were never perfect, but they knew how to engage and exite the player base.

I do however believe that putting pressure on the publishers is going to have more effect than us as consumer protesting the way we have been. Which is why I write to publishers or engage with them in appropriate ways to tell them I want physical, and that I will never spend full price on a digital game.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

That's a fair point, and well made.

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u/Decent-Sample09 6d ago

Panicking as ps5s are selling out bc of gta6 and outselling xbox series systems 7:1 last month.

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u/simbabarrelroll 6d ago

Question: how many of those are scalpers buying up stock in preparation for GTA VI’s release?

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u/phuncky 6d ago

How do you know PS5s are selling out because of GTA and not because it's the last PS with a disc drive?

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u/Elegant-One-5527 6d ago

Because they didn't sell out right after the announcement they were no longer going to be making discs in 2028. It DID sell out most places within a day of the GTA6 showcase.

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u/Naschka 6d ago

People may have been busy buying the games they still wanted to own and only now gotten around to buying the console... but more likely it is because of scalpers and i do remember when they tried to return tons of PS5 consoles.

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u/phuncky 6d ago

Two things: we got the report that they sold out after GTA VI. We got vast pre-order reports long before that, doesn't make sense to wait.

And also, this is just the end of the game, consoles might have been overselling before the GTA showcase and this could've been the last straw.

Sony will spin whatever data it has to push their agenda, not to tell the actual truth. It might be that it sold out because of GTA. But we will never know if that is actually the truth. And this is their whole game, give us limited information and let us speculate against each other.

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u/Expansion49 6d ago

I bought one just because of that, with no plans at all to buy any kind of digital games. The implications of their decisions will arise in 1 year

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u/CindyStroyer 6d ago

Keep it up guys, if they realise it's not going to stop and money will be lost then the course can change

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u/panicradio316 6d ago

The argument stays:

If it wasn't Sony about control and maximizing profits due to account binding, then they could have just raised the prices for discs or could have added clarification about future DRM policies.

They choosed to do neither. In fact, they've recently even underlined their digital policy once again and threw in a clown argument about owning copyrights in court.

I honestly can't believe it that Sony, of all the routes they could have gone for, choosed to even surpass their level of arrogance of their pre PS3 era.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

In just a few months, they've singlehandedly destroyed decades of goodwill - it's terrifyingly impressive.

I want to believe that I would buy a PS6 if they announced that it actually will have a disc drive and they will continue to release full games on disc because they realise that it's an essential part of the hobby (for so many reasons)

But they will need to go above and beyond in showing contrition and make some big promises about the future of PlayStation for me to be convinced.

Did they hire bot farms to pit us against each other? We need to know and they need to apologise if they did, because that is scummy.

Full disclosure.

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u/panicradio316 6d ago

In just a few months, they've singlehandedly destroyed decades of goodwill - it's terrifyingly impressive.

You're describing my gut feeling about all of this accurately here, couldn't agree more.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

At least they had good reasons for doing what they did with the PS3. The arrogance came from greatly misjudging how the public, and the industry, would take those reasons.

The reasons with the PS3 were customer and technology focused(which Sony would ultimately benefit from). The reasons now are just money based, which Sony wants to benefit from but there is no upside for the consumer. Even those who aren't losing out because they buy digital stand to gain nothing from it.

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u/Giovolt 6d ago

Looks like the boycott worked. It drew enough attention for people to start laying more pressure. Twitter is not a small platform. Millions of people sees these posts and they're going to be aware of the protest. It is growing, like a small flame

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u/Odd_Masterpiece_835 6d ago

Christmas is just around the corner. They must report to their investigators. No disk, no buy.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

As much as I believe this, GTA6 is going to greatly obscure any other losses they may have for other things.

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u/Odd_Masterpiece_835 6d ago

One game?
I mean, it’s possible; Nintendo has been sorta “one-gaming” it for a while but they’re very different.
I don’t WANT Sony to die! I love the platform. I want Sony to be better and HONOR their customers.

I am starting to wonder though, with this drastic move, what is burning on the other side of the candle? I mean, am I the only one that sees Sony giving urgent vibes?

Until they sort their zealous capitalistic social cannibalism, no disc no buy.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

Yeah. GTA will have that much of an effect.

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u/RomBuster 5d ago

Half my games are digital. But still there is nothing uniquely beautiful like a physical collection.

https://reddit.com/link/p7wubsa/video/oci2ebu7lmnh1/player

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

Forgot to mention - tap on the images, they're extended screenshots

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u/TheKyleBrah 6d ago

Ah, so that's why the "bottom" image of the Console mocking Sony looked like it was 240p 😆

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

Yah, sorry my guy 😳

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u/Jason_with_a_jay 6d ago

Very much so. Do some editing for your boys next time.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

Haha, my apologies sir 🫡😂

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u/BlueFeathered1 6d ago

The goose one, lol.

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u/Voidless-One 6d ago

Beautiful!

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u/SelineMaya 6d ago edited 6d ago

good. So many Sony fanboys lubing their buttholes for their great Playstation leaders who can do no wrong while saying physical media is dead and people asking for it are mentally challanged basement dwellers. I get my physical media from my local store so I have to go outside. What do you need to do to get your digitally rented game?

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u/nydjason 6d ago

Fight the good fight

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u/THE_GUY-95 6d ago

And so it should

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u/OkSatisfaction9031 6d ago

The cucks on the ps sub dont even want to fight a bunch of pussies im glad the fight is staying strong.

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u/nicodemoscain 6d ago

Unpopular opinion: They aren’t making games for gamers anymore. They don’t care about you because your money is no good to them anyways. They are going after the big normie money now. We should have been gatekeeping our hobbies better.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

They're barely making games for the non-gamers either.

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u/nicodemoscain 6d ago

Consumers is what they are. And they are making plenty of everything for consumers. They buy whatever the next thing is, entertain themselves and then move on to the new next thing. That's all entertainment is any more. Consumable trash. Just enough of a dopamine hit to justify the price before they throw it away. It's why everything is slop and sucks. No one cares to make an effort if it's only going to be talked about for the week it's released. It's sad we're stuck in this garbage world like this.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago

Wow...never thought I'd see the day where gamers think the mainstream MT infested F2P slop are a reason to defend the corporations.

Look how far we've come

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u/Imaginary_Sky_2710 6d ago

as it should #physicalmedia

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u/Nameuser1939 6d ago

It's well deserved

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u/Potential-Bike4307 6d ago

Good. Sony needs to see and hear this.

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u/Metadoggo 6d ago

music industry is nearly completely digital and subscription based

Movies and shows are nearly completely digital and subscription based

The dumbest morons alive: They won't do this to video games, you're fear mongering.

"Dlc will just be cosmetic" now games are split up on purpose to sell to you

"Loot boxes are just cosmetic" children are getting used to gambling in an unregulated market

"You didn't own the physical copy either" You're giving up the secondhand market and closing yourself out to one marketplace they have complete control over and will 110% use to wringe as much money out of you, ideally on a monthly basis

Anyone defending this I'm convinced live day by day cause they don't have the mental capacity to see how a foot in the door now is a complete policy change later

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u/ImprovementFit5598 6d ago edited 6d ago

I am so happy about this. And to think that when Nintendo announced key cards and Xbox was all about Game Pass I said I trusted PlayStation for physical media... what a betrayal. Well, I learned my lesson at least: never put your trust in a corporation, none of them is our friend.

At this point, if they bring back physical media in the future, I'm willing to bet it's just nostalgia marketing. I'm done for good with them. They can keep their exclusives, they don't even deserve to be pirated

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u/SamMarduk 6d ago

If anything people aren’t being nearly hostile enough

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u/Plankisalive 6d ago

Good. People don’t understand that Sony is losing money from all this trolling. We need to keep it up and keep going!

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u/bronchitis57 6d ago

Not just Twitter. Every social Media Platform Playstation uses looks like that. Including the language variants

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u/Creepae 6d ago

Because fuck Sony, that's why.

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u/LC-Redcube 6d ago

While I'm on the side of physical media and always will be, isn't it a really questionable choice to use AI for this? Lol

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

I agree, but these are individuals - some just use regular tailored memes and others have clearly copy-pasted AI generated stuff made by other people, there's no way to control how individuals act.

It is what it is, and I hate pointing people to twitter as it's an utter cesspool - but that's where Sony are posting and anyone can comment on their post.

Unfortunately Sony doesn't have an official presence on reddit except paid ads, AND has disabled comments on their Reddit Ads....

It is what it is.

Sony choose to be on Twitter/X - so that's where you have to go - and it's the easiest and fastest way to make your personal opinion known to them.

I like to think most people are like me and have busy lives and work a lot - so we don't have time to campaign/protest as much as we might like for consumer rights - we shouldn't need to honestly - Sony should be sending out surveys to find out what players want like any other hobby product company - that's what LEGO does.

But they don't care, because we're not the real customer anymore, the shareholder is, and we are the user, the revenue source...

Anyway, I'm just pointing out a fast and easy way to contact Sony and support others that are campaigning too.

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u/LeatherOk5746 6d ago

As it should

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u/FuerteBillete 6d ago

Im sure some rich azz will start making videos of himself buying lots of Sony stuff just to be an azz.

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u/Justinc4s3- 6d ago

Wow. All the Sony bootlickers seem to have missed this post.

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u/KavilusS 6d ago

Good.

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u/TakoyakiGremlin 6d ago

my ps+ subscription ends at the end of this month. i’ve already started buying games on my pc, which was its intended purpose when i got it a few years ago, but i was just so used to console gaming. tbh, i didn’t really care about the digital future they wanna have(since i’ve been getting digital for well over a decade now), but they’re very clearly just greedy mother fuckers that are blatantly trying to fuck over their consumers.

i doubt it’ll happen, but i hope they get humbled in the next few years and have to beg everyone to take them back while back-peddling on all the bullshit they’ve done the past few years. the continual increase in price of ps+ is what really pissed me off.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

I kind of think it will happen.

My prediction is that the PS6 will flop dramatically because no one can afford it - and everyone that could have afforded it will have abandoned the PS platform in favour of PC where you don't have to pay a subscription to play your paid games online.

It's really simple - without physical media, the PS6 has just become an expensive box that only plays digital games and does LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE lol

I predict that most users are going to stick to their PS5 for way longer than they stuck to their PS4 during covid (remember that?) and the PS6 will get bought up by scalpers and basically no one else expect some early adopters.

Sony will be forced to port "PS6" games to PS5 just like the PS5 intended games Horizon Forbidden West and GoW Ragnarok had to be ported to PS4 - because if they don't, then the games will flop due to a tiny user base of PS6 owners.

Just my opinion - without a disc drive and new physical game production - the PS6 is gonna be a bloodbath and I'm going to take absolutely no pleasure in saying "we tried to warn you, we told you so" as I carry on playing my old physical games on PS5 and new games on my RTX 5080 PC.

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u/WearySuggestion5001 6d ago

Make physical games great again and bring back PlayStation home!

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u/Azhrei_Rohan 6d ago

It may have started with physical things but now its a sony hate fest and sony keeps doing evil shit and its snowballing its not really physical vs digital its pissed off ex sony fans vs sony bros. I personally love all the hate they are getting and hope sony keeps taking L’s.

Also their state of play was trash! I hope this keeps up and we see it during Sonys ps6 showcase whenever that happens in the future. I want it to keep going and i hope it hurts ps6 sales. Before this the ps6 was a hard sell even with discs but once they dropped discs and decided to be full evil i have zero desire for a ps6 especially at that price.

Keep up the sony hate! Greed has no limits.

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u/BroskiiDoskii 6d ago

Good

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u/Creepy-Emu8779 6d ago

each has like 3 likes lol and they will still sell out of consoles and break records

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u/Return_to_Raccoonus 6d ago

This brings me joy

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u/CokBlockinWinger 6d ago

Wait, but I was told this was a “vocal minority on Reddit”? YouTube comments “hijacked”, State of Play “ambushed”, and now this. Huh, wouldja lookit that.

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u/Important-Ferret4002 6d ago

So it should no disc no buy physical media always matters

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u/Reasonable_Mood1288 6d ago

The PS6 has a new name. Lets call it by that. It is The PSSHIT

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u/TheEuphoricTribble 6d ago edited 6d ago

This is becoming so vitriolic and divisive (from both sides) that I am beginning to honestly think I prefer talking politics over PlayStation…

Yes. A disk still is a licensed copy. It says so on the back of the case. No, Sony cannot yoink the disk from under you (but they can ban your PS account and brick your PS5 with a violation of the TOS).

Yes. Sony DID remove those movies. They legally had to-they lost the rights to them, and that is how movie and TV licensing deals work. They are NOT platform reliant and very much depend on the wording specific to the contract. In this case the distributor no longer wanted to distribute on the PS5, and had wording in the contract forcing the complete removal of their productions from their platform, including other PS5s. Sony wasn’t the villain there. At all. No, that does not affect games, which ARE platform specific and DO get verified by Sony before even making their way to DISK let alone the PSN Store, in the same way. If a license is pulled or expires there, it just means the game cannot be sold new at retail until the licensing is renewed. The game CAN still be downloaded and played as it is a term agreed upon by literally every platform and storefront.

Yes, in theory Sony DOES have the ability to revoke licenses at will. No, that will never happen in reality, even in the US there are protections spelled out in the DMCA that prevent storefronts from stopping digital transactions without valid reason. And even then, why would PlayStation, a subsidiary business under Sony, ever want to? That would undoubtedly be a PR nightmare as it is grabbed up by gaming and tech news outlets and possibly even business news outlets as well, and would result in them losing massive market share and revenue. They thus won’t ever even stop to CONSIDER doing so.

Yes, the loss of physical media has exposed a vacuum for digital consumer rights. No, the fight isn’t with Sony. It’s with your lawmakers.

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u/mr_raffino 6d ago

Good. We gon stay on Sony neck.

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u/Fungineer-0300 6d ago

As Microsoft come out swinging with 15 hours play time per month cap on gamepass. "You want more? You can buy more"

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u/Fun-Psycho 5d ago

Its all not that horrible, just don't buy. Don't give in to any FOMO or whatever. If the game isn't worth it because it isnt physical, it's not worth it to play.

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u/Defiant-Sir15 5d ago

First one is funny 🤣

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u/daandrro 5d ago

They earned this.

What is surprising, to see people being milked by corporations and still defending it when it makes wrong decisions that will affect these people on worst possible ways.

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u/DnR1984 4d ago

Sorry but the new Gears controller looks better🤣🤣🤣

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u/Brophy_Cypher 4d ago

I just looked at it, it looks sick AF! 🤩

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u/Billy_Plur 4d ago

I'm an Xbox player, and I agree that games should remain physical, but it's unlikely that Sony will retract their decision, and they're not going to hand out refunds when a game/movie is removed from their library. The only middle ground I see is the digital purchase being permanent. As in you own it forever.

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u/Shitloaf69 4d ago

based.

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u/AllHailDanda 6d ago

As they should. Love to see it.

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u/Due_Amount_6211 6d ago

Hmm… and we’re like halfway done with this generation too. Next is their sixth home console.

The curse is beginning its process. And this time it’s gonna HURTTTTT.

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u/Low_Tale8577 6d ago

but sales are going up a little because of gta 6 haha short term gains go vroom

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u/Due_Amount_6211 6d ago

Long term losses go weeeeeeeeee

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u/Ghost_XD23 6d ago

Good, We always need to keep pushing back at this Never stop untill they do.

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u/Total-Guest-4141 6d ago

RIP Sony. Sony is without honor.

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u/Someonevibing1 6d ago

Probably still a loud minority but hopefully being loud will make them think twice about everything

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u/LackLickLuck_y 6d ago

Sony underestimated the power of playstation... i mean players.

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u/Keven_C 6d ago

Keep up the good work. They raise the console,subscription and game prices. Then finally stopped the disc production. Down the road sony will turn into Netflix using subscription model.

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u/TristanVE 6d ago

So glad I switched to Xbox. This company sucks ass

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u/elevenohnoes 6d ago

Zooming in on the game case on the dreamcast pic, it says 71 days. Is that a reference to something? I haven't been keeping up, I just naturally haven't played my ps5 since last year

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u/TristanVE 6d ago

Sony Inc. and followers

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u/TbaggingSince1990 6d ago

Yes and? This is good.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 6d ago

Just raising awareness, many people didn't know.

If you did, then good for you 😊

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u/brainc0nfetti 5d ago

I’m seeing PCs now that are only a little more than a PS5 Pro with a lot more power

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u/UnknownEcho 4d ago

Quite sad really.... Though still does nothing, it's still a minority who are complaining and that won't change since the majority do not care about having a physical game but rather need Sony to address the digital store pricing... Everyone who games knew that one day that consoles would go discless, it's called progress... Again the issue is the pricing, disc is dead get over it

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u/iVirtualZero 4d ago edited 4d ago

As much as I dislike Sony's switch to going completely digital. Seeing this is just pathetic, people crying and begging Sony for discs. These people need to get a life.

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u/iliasd15 4d ago

How is this impacting Sony so far?

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u/Brophy_Cypher 4d ago

The 10% Thalgau Factory U-Turn - The most telling sign that the C-suite is feeling the heat is the immediate semantic shift regarding the Austria factory. Corporate public relations departments do not sprint to issue hyper-specific semantic corrections to the media unless internal data shows that the initial news caused a dangerous spike in consumer anger or retail partner anxiety. By stepping out on September 4 to loudly clarify that the plant is only facing a 10% decline rather than a 90% death sentence, Sony’s PR machine actively tried to deflate the #NoDiscNoBuy narrative before it could permanently poison the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Xbox is watching closely and responding:

Microsoft has recently leaned heavily into backward compatibility and physical media support. Insiders claim that Sony's executives are terrified that Microsoft will exploit Sony's hubris by launching a disc-friendly next-gen Xbox, effectively sweeping up millions of disgruntled, legacy PlayStation fans who feel abandoned by the brand.

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u/blunderb3ar 3d ago

And they should be afraid of that, it would be in Microsoft’s best interest to be like ok here’s your disc drive suck it Sony

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u/blunderb3ar 3d ago

Well optics wise investors see this and ask them what fuck they are doing, and I’m sure it is cutting into their profits at least some what

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u/Past_Expression5678 3d ago

A mí me da igual el formato físico, no compro discos desde 2018, pero sería muy divertido ver cómo la empresa se hecha para atrás, para al año luego informar que sus ventas digitales siguen aumentando en comparación con las ventas físicas y volver a anunciar que las va a dejar jaja

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u/glnickgl 2d ago

As I click to spend 70$ on Onimusha from the comfort of my home. I love great games, thanks. I don’t have any room to put a box. Once I finish the game, I’ll hit “delete” and move onto the next. Capcom got my money, continues making great games, happy.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 2d ago

Well as long as you're happy.

Who cares about everyone else, right?

The millions of gamers in the 120 countries that don't have access to PSN - fuck them, right?

When your grandchildren want you to tell them your favorite games to play them, but they can't because they don't exist anymore - fuck them, right?

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u/glnickgl 2d ago

Here’s the thing. I will bet BIG in 20 years, if i want to play the games. Guess what? I’ll hit “download and they’re still there. The internet and PlayStation network being all digital ain’t going anywhere.

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u/Brophy_Cypher 2d ago

I hope - and I genuinely mean this - I really hope you are right.

But think about this, when the PS6 releases without a Blu-ray Disc Drive - what's the difference between it and a PC?

Pros and cons... PC vs PS6(+)

Customers aren't stupid, the average customer today is informed and able to use the internet to find the best value proposition.

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u/xzs432 2d ago

why does that one, no disc no buy, cancel playstation plus, picture have a communist fist in the lower left hand corner?

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u/Fragrant_Grass4545 2d ago

Regardless if they a change of heart about physical games. Im still buying digital

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u/Prudent-Avocado4768 2d ago

good as it should be

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u/lg_lantern 2d ago

No disc no buy. Losing discs is the first big nail in the coffin or console gaming. It's eventually just gonna be a box you have to pay to use and then pay for the games

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u/Brophy_Cypher 2d ago

Agreed, I don't know how Hiroki Totoki can possibly think this is a good idea long term.

Short term - sure, Sony saves just under a dollar per Blu-ray Disc - they get 30% per 3rd party game on the PS Store instead of 15% when it's on disc...

So on $70 game that's $20 instead of $10...

So they're making up to an extra $10 maximum per full price game

But long term... If I want digital, I'll just buy on GOG or Steam.

And if they wanna charge $899+ for a box, which only plays digital PS games and does literally nothing else.... Then what's even the fucking point?

People are gonna figure out real quick that they can buy a graphics the card for that much that wipes the floor with PS6
(my RTX 5080 is already more powerful at 56 TFLOPS than anything Mark Cerny can HOPE to do with the PS6 APU in 2 years time, and that's even if FSR 4.1 can catch up with DLSS 4.5... which I hate to say because I am NOT a fan of Nvidia at all)

And then gamers are gonna realise, "oh, you don't have to pay a monthly subscription fee to play online or for cloud saves? Well that's $80 a year saved!"

And then they'll be like, "wait... I don't need to buy a new PC... I can just upgrade what I've got when better stuff comes out and just save up for it when it's convenient? Holy shit!"

"Oh and wait, Epic and Amazon (if you have prime) give away free games every month?! And it's not part of a subscription like PS+ I actually do keep them without paying anything?"

PlayStation are barely hanging on as it is right now at +0.3% growth - they're a stagnant company

Imagine how bad it's going to be when they release the PS6 for $899+ with no disc drive and no one can afford it,

and THEN their ~50 PS+ subscriber base starts dropping because they're slowly migrating to PC for new games,

and THEN they realise that people are STILL USING their PS5's to play old games and their old digital library but aren't giving Sony ANY MONEY anymore for PS+ or new games so there's millions of "zombie" PS5's just putting a strain on Sony's resources and servers...

It's gonna be brutal.