Right!!! We paid EXTRA for the disc drive for physical media!
This is what pisses me off the most - they committed PS5 to physical media the second they made a disc edition. Any reasonable customer would interpret that as discs being a viable format for the lifetime of the console. If they were making a call for PS6 and beyond I’d understand, but they took our money for the disc edition, then reneged on their commitment to it. There’s a class action lawsuit here for sure.
Jokes on you Sony. I’m still playing emulated PS2 games.
The RPCS3 collection is pretty good too.
I have to think that they just haven’t parsed out the games that are downloadable-only vs those that have both digital and physical editions.
I also think they don’t care and they really just want more control, like every other awful corporation driving these anti-consumer practices.
They didn’t; GameTheory on YouTube actually went through the numbers pretty recently, and of all the games available physically - I believe sales were ~50:50, or slightly trended towards physical.
Oh dang. That’s awesome. I’ll have to look that video up, as I love it when people parse out the data and give us more insights.
They don’t care. They think (and hope) people will buy the new ps6 at whatever price and will accept digital because what choice they have? Get a switch 2? Or an xbox (can you even buy them?). Nah, the guy playing fc, or cod, or nfl or gta will buy one. And let’s be honest, that casual gamer who gets the same titles every year and eventually buys something else (still mainstream) is the biggest part of their playerbase.
Some people will switch to pc but the majority will silently buy a ps6 only digital because let’s be honest, they don’t care if FC26 becomes unplayble in 2030, by that time, they’ll be playing FC30.
I left PlayStation after the 3 for Xbox. Then I left Xbox for steam. 🤷♀️
I’m in blackout since the news. Fuck them.
All because they can fire a whole division that’s responsible for physical media to improve margins. Then control and limit the users ability to be able to play the content at virtually no cost to them, while also forcing them to purchase a subscription (double dipping) to be online, while also enforcing an always online policy so they can collect data (triple dipping).
Someone will be getting a new yacht and the users will be getting less value for more cost. PS5 is my last console, it sucks anyway.
They’re doubling down, nice. I didn’t expect anything less from you, Sony.
