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Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future” (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

wont this just push people to getting steam/valve

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Steam can do the same. They can all do the same.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the big advantage of disc is Sony can't randomly take it away. And given the fact that they have literally just done that with a bunch of movies it's kind of a problem.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

It would be trivial to add online only drm with a killswitch to physical media. If that's the problem, discs aren't the solution. What we actually need is legal protection for consumers.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I was already planning to abandon Sony even before they shot themselves in the foot (or leg? groin? time will tell I guess)

I bought the PS5 solely to play one specific game, but I still expected to get some other games. And I've gotten a few at least: The Finals is amazing, Baldur's Gate is amazing, Battlefield 6 is great... and that's about the end of my list.

The one specific game I bought the PS5 for, No Man's Sky, has tons of stuff you can do with mods and save editing. Same for Baldur's Gate as far as mods go. The Finals and BF6 are FPS games so no mods, but still... 100% of the games I like could just be played on PC instead, and 50% are significantly better for doing so.

In the last few generations of consoles / handhelds, Sony has:

  • Removed the ability to back your data up via USB as of PS5 (ostensibly because scary ol' North Korea hacked them, but really because they want to force you to buy PS+)
  • Removed the ability to use custom themes as of PS4
  • Removed the ability to play online for free as of PS4
  • Removed the ability to set a background for your console ffs as of PS5, then gave us like 10% of that back by letting you set a background specifically and only for the screen you see after the console starts
  • Jacked up PS+ prices repeatedly and offered like 99% games that I never play again (granted I'm a very picky gamer but still. Shoutout to Jurassic World and some Resident Evils tho)

There's so many reasons to ditch them even separately from the disc drama

[–] BritishJ@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Ahh yes, steam renowned for its physical media.

Hopefully it just keeps them using old consoles and punishing them by not buying the digital games.

But we all know everyone will just roll over.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 hours ago

The problem isn't digital the problem is digital only.

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Obviously they mean that in a digital-only world, consoles are not worth it and gamers should just switch to PC.