They are gonna remove games in future like they did with the movies
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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They already have lol.
Licensed titles are different. Unless they’ve done that for non-licensed titles.
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Honestly, if I have to go digital, my money is going to Valve
I will no longer be offering money to receive playstation games. 🤷♂️
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Cool. If thats the case I will no longer be offering Playstation my money for games.
So don't buy a fucking Playstation.
This isn't that hard to sort out.
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If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn't be such a big deal.
At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
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My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be ~~felt~~ delt with legally.
I like being able to share a disc with friends. Or get one from the library. They kill that, they're making a hell of lot of enemies.
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Sony I already didn't intend to buy the next game console, you don't have to keep trying to push me away.
"It will be over $1000."
"Ew, no thanks!"
"But wait, there's more! You also won't be able to buy games used or trade them with friends!"
Do not worry, Sony is not at all known for taking away from people digital media which they keep in their servers for those people
/s (just in case)
I’d feel more strongly about this if I’d actually bought a game on a physical disc anytime in the last 3 years.
They're often cheaper on disc. Random sales here and there nearly always undercut the PSN price.
The real reason I've not bought many this gen was PS Plus. There's a lot of games I'd have been vaguely interested in picking up on a decent sale, only they've never been on one, and then went on PS Plus so now aren't worth buying at all.
Realistically the loss of physical discs means we need far more robust digital rights. The right to trade games to other accounts. The right to continue playing them if the store closes, loading games and licence keys from USB etc. That last one is going to need some thought to prevent abuse, but I think it's essential if we're going to live in a digital future. On PC that last one could be done by transferring licenses to another store maybe.
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At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap... Right?
And the games, too, since there are no shipping or packaging costs!
I've been a PlayStation guy since 1998. Looks like the PS5 is my last PlayStation console.
Steam being all digital is fine because I'm buying games for 75-90% off.. If I got told I was losing access to a game I played $2.50 for 6 years ago and played for 40 hours I would.. actually I'd still be annoyed but less annoyed than losing hundreds of dollars.
Steam lets you play games that you bought, even if they've been delisted in the meantime.
Steam is the good guy (for now). GOG is even better though, since they let you save offline installers with no DRM.
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The concept that not everyone has big internet or even good enough might be super strange for these C-level people.
I don't think they care about those markets (even though they could make a lot of money out of them)
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Stop being suckered into the system that has no respect for you or the money they steal from you.
Play station will no longer be offering games- Yup still no games
Am not surprised given how large games today can be. You can have a disk to launch the game when you first get it, but chances are the Playstation will still have to "update" it with the full resources..
I don't have a playstation, but FFS, I can't even get the full Halo: Master Chief Collection onto my gaming PC - I just don't have the drive space. Some game packages are huge today.
It's this or go back to multi disc installs. Modern discs have 100GB capacity so Halo MCC would be on two. The largest games, like the modern Call of Duty amalgamation-launcher-thing and ARK, would push over 3 discs
The disc doesn't have to have the full data on it..in fact most don't nowadays and they require downloading the additional data from the store...so there shouldn't be any issue here in terms of storage... essentially what a Switch 2 game key card is.
It's for a physical license and entitlement of ownership
This is Sony wrestling away the last bits physical ownership they can take away to force the middleman out and make used games history. This is going to result in higher prices and significantly fewer sales
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