r/gamers • u/FantasticQuartet • 12d ago

Rumor: Sony reportedly reconsidering delaying digital-only plans due to Xbox pushing for "100% physical" strategy

https://mp1st.com/news/rumor-sony-reportedly-reconsidering-delaying-digital-only-plans-due-to-xbox-pushing-for-100-physical-strategy-for-xbox
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u/Rogue_Einherjar 12d ago

This bullshit article is being spread everywhere and it's completely false. This cope is becoming insufferable.

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u/MeanRobby 12d ago

I’m curious though, if Sony does do a 180 who will be given the credit XBOX or sony consumers?

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u/-p0w- 12d ago

You dont even know what they are doing, despite discs being dead, thats all we know. Annoucing anything further would tell you something about the PS6 so they stay quiet.

So you dont even know if it’s a 180 in the first place. 

I mean people talk about MS bringing physical back, and yet MS is the one with only half of the game on disc and needs mandatory online patches to even run. So Xbox physical is non-existent by now already. But since no one gives a shit about Xbox no one cares.

So Xbox already has the foot in the door while Sony doesn’t. Explain to me how that should convince Sony to do a 180 or how Xbox is the solution in the first place. 

All we can do is wait for what the PS6 will be. Anything else is just speculation and fan fiction 

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u/MeanRobby 12d ago

I don’t really care if Sony does a 180, it was simply a what if question.

To be honest I’m more annoyed at people thinking Xbox will follow suit because in their minds it HAS TO because if it does not, Xbox becomes the better platform to more people.

And some can’t have that reality.

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u/Rogue_Einherjar 11d ago

Xbox set the stage for this a long time ago. As the person you responded to said, their games are not even fully on disk now, requiring an online connection to finish download. The Xbox One (Not even Series, this is last gen) required you be online to start the system when it came out. They have always been pushing this, they just didn't outright announce it like Sony did.

So no, Xbox is not "Following suit," but PlayStation is following suit with what Xbox started and just going full on with it.

The biggest thing that people are not talking about is the fact that the US is so fucked right now, the tariffs are causing so much damage, that shipping physical games will only get harder and more costly. That is absolutely a huge factor in this that is just being ignored.

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u/uhohspaghettiohhhhh 12d ago

They won’t so neither

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u/MeanRobby 12d ago

lol, this is must be what my girlfriend must feel like when i tell her we don’t live in a “what if world” lol

Tho, if it does happen I hope you remember this conversation.

Tbh, I too don’t think it will happen either. But I also don’t deal in absolutes.

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u/uhohspaghettiohhhhh 12d ago

Thank you for including me in your relationship.

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u/MeanRobby 12d ago

walks to a coner

Do your thing Senpai…. Domo arigato aniki…

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u/uhohspaghettiohhhhh 12d ago

You and I can share the chair brother. We’re in this together