Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
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“I want a disk that is literally just an activation dongle to download some digital software!” —ANGERY “pro physical media” morons.
Absolute platinum tier brain-dead take.
The only “morons” around here are people who loudly and proudly share the same stupid disinfo, and try to disparage those that actually trying to keep this hobby from completely going down the shitter.
No one’s trying to take away your ability to buy and play digital games, so why the fuck are you advocating doing so for those that prefer physical media?
Has your dumb-ass not yet realised that physical media means competitive pricing, due to Sony’s online store needing to compete with B&M sales, as well as the 2nd hand market?
Once that’s taken away, and you’re stuck with “dynamic targeted pricing” of $70+ dollars for years-old titles - if you can even still purchase them - maybe then, the couple of brain cells floating around in that massive waste of space between your ears might just manage to find each other, and it will finally dawn on you just how hard you’re now getting fucked over.
Oh, and by-the-way - removing digital-only titles and DLC from the sales metrics, something like ~50% of game sales are still through physical media.
Meh. Pirates will always be there to make these things available for free if anyone cares.
Only fools will be champing at the bit to own a scratched to hell copy of the idea of Death Stranding or Elden Ring on a disk that doesn’t work on a system that doesn’t work when they can just download a rom of it for free off what ever the hell new site pops up in the future (or pay $0.30 for a native build on whatever computer platform is dominant then).
I got Wind Waker on like 3 different devices, all stored locally. I don’t care that I sold my physical copy of it (that I bought new for the game cube back in the day). I also don’t care that I also have a physical copy of its hd re-release collecting dust in a cabinet. Guarantee you’re not gonna be too sad that you can’t play your original copy of Ghost of Tsushima from disk on a PS5 20 years from now. But I’m sure you’ll be complaining that games are so expensive at $80 in 2046 (but that’s a different gamer essay).