In the wake of Sony stopped making Games on physical discs in 2028, do you think the gaming Industry is dead now, or gaming in general?

[Tsukishima Tsukishima]

Lmao How many games cause I own 4 bookshelves of PS3-4 games not including my PS5 collection sitting on top of my CRT monitors.
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PS. I own the pre-order poster plus the Legendary Godzilla DLC as well.
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I'm pretty impressed at how you turned this into a measuring competition. You barely had a reasonable argument to begin with, and now with sheer spite you drag this on.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

This is what my collection looked like back when I made my intro post to the forum. It's grown.

Actually nevermind. I don't have to prove anything to you.

Ah I really wanted to see the collection, oh well. Probably looked cool.

 

[dkpopman]

Ah I really wanted to see the collection, oh well. Probably looked cool.

https://retrogametalk.com/threads/hello.18355/

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

https://retrogametalk.com/threads/hello.18355/

based Sega Saturn enthusiast

 

[dizzypixel]

both the industry and gaming itself is pretty much dead as dead can be.

 

[Madslayer214193]

Personally, I feel it's really bad timing on Sony's part, it's gonna bite them in the butt.
There's been a bump in physical media sales because of how often Movies and Music are taken off of storefronts. With the cost of flash based storage skyrocketing and showing no signs of slowing down, now would've been a good time to promote disc based storage as a cheaper alternative, or you know, finally advance the medium passed Blu-ray technology to address the slow read speed of them.
I don't think it'll kill gaming as a whole, but it is going to transform the industry.
Then there's the issue of PSN not lowering prices for digital versions, while their physical counterparts are like $30 on the market.
Wacky times we're living in, it's like all hobbies are actively trying to end

 

[dkpopman]

both the industry and gaming itself is pretty much dead as dead can be.

Record profits and sales.

 

[Madslayer214193]

Record profits and sales.

That's the biggest issue, people are just gonna roll over and take it, because why care at all?
Just wait for them to start taking digital copies of games away from select regions, or having to fear never being able to play a game with licensed content in it because it'll get ripped from a storefront.
By then it'll be too late to reverse it.

 

[What's His Face]

I think we could be headed for a crash. But then, I've been expecting a crash for 4 years.

 

[Izzy]

I know i dont wanna post this, but I had to get it out of my chest. But this morning, I found out Sony will stop making games being released on physically in 2028, and will be digitally only from now on. When i heard of the news, I was like the what in the f**k man. I was very depressed the whole day to hear about that, because usually physically releases are much cheaper to get than digital, and it was your copy to keep right for as long as you own it right. I mean it's bad enough, GTA VI will be on digital only, and now this, i also heard PS3 store is shutting down, but at least that was actually intentional giving the fact the PS3 store existed for 20 years since the launch of the console. But anyways, do you think the future of gaming is just over as we know it guys, or we just have to use PC at this point. Because I recently got a Gaming laptop at my local pawn shop for $500, and its ASUS Rog Strix 2019 that has a Intel Core I7 9th gen, 8GB ram, and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 card, it plays emulators well im using pcsx2 for PS2 games including God of war 2 which is a demanding title just well, I do have to leave the laptop plugged in tho, in order to run it in full speed, because if i play it unplugged it will stutter badly, so im not sure if its just normal for laptops to do this even on high end ones.

It's all about G.O.D. at this rate with games are. You either have the choice of A. Giving up gaming as a whole, B. Get in where you fit in with gaming, or C. Stay on the sideline, and continue to be all gloom and doom with gaming and there's D. Emulation. I'm sticking with whatever works at this rate which is basically to just what gaming as a whole has to offer and while the 95% is either gonna be drooling over new releases, have make believe gaming factions and tier making, I'll be part of that 5% and just dig whatever I find and enjoy whatever games there are and all they're worth. Rather not be interested in the politics going on with companies, that's none of my business as a gamer.

 

[SoThankful SoThankful]

Let's just say it's dead inside (if that makes sense). But it started to die off before this news even.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Let this be known that a lot of games on PSN still haven't had a sale and only the top games ever go on sale, where in steam your game you wishlist will go on sale regardless if the publisher is still owns that game.

True.

Both Call Of Duty and Hack n Slash (two games I wishlisted as a kid) have gone on sale dozens of times since, and I still get emails reminding me of it.

 

[Silver_kas]

I know i dont wanna post this, but I had to get it out of my chest. But this morning, I found out Sony will stop making games being released on physically in 2028, and will be digitally only from now on. When i heard of the news, I was like the what in the f**k man. I was very depressed the whole day to hear about that, because usually physically releases are much cheaper to get than digital, and it was your copy to keep right for as long as you own it right. I mean it's bad enough, GTA VI will be on digital only, and now this, i also heard PS3 store is shutting down, but at least that was actually intentional giving the fact the PS3 store existed for 20 years since the launch of the console. But anyways, do you think the future of gaming is just over as we know it guys, or we just have to use PC at this point. Because I recently got a Gaming laptop at my local pawn shop for $500, and its ASUS Rog Strix 2019 that has a Intel Core I7 9th gen, 8GB ram, and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 card, it plays emulators well im using pcsx2 for PS2 games including God of war 2 which is a demanding title just well, I do have to leave the laptop plugged in tho, in order to run it in full speed, because if i play it unplugged it will stutter badly, so im not sure if its just normal for laptops to do this even on high end ones.

Is not like is dead, but you can see how many of these game companies have changed through all this years, and now the player isn't the priority, is more important to make profit of it, reach the desired numbers, and if they need to step over us, they will, is sad tho, but is not everything bad i think, we still have some game developers that are interested on the comunity

 

[Bacon Eater64x]

I have never been the biggest Playstation guy (im a nintendo boy at heart) but this confirms it: the Playstation that i knew is dead. It was already on its last legs since the mid 2010s with the shift to California, the closure of Japan studio, the focus on Over-the-shoulder cinematic action games stuff and other events.

But this..................it's a sign that i have to call it quits. It's a good thing i still have my backlog, and with the prices going up, the general gaming scene not being my thing, and me being too lazy to build a gaming PC, it's time for me to play what i have and replay it over and over. Appreciate what i have because that's all im getting. Less and less gaming releases interest me and in general i wonder if i enjoy playing games that much. Then i look at the industry and realize it's their fault.

I DO NOT trust companies that delete millions of stores and titles on a whim and take it away from you to take charge in a digital-only future in the slightest. I don't even buy anything digitally beyond the 20 dollar price-point, what makes you think i will accept 100 dollar versions of games that locked features behind a "Complete edition" (EAT MY SHIT ROCKSTAR) with anything digitally.

I want no part in what the future holds for this industry. Fuck Gacha, fuck MTX, fuck-live service games, fuck over 100GB, fuck the digital-only push, fuck the idological dogma of western game developers, fuck the japanse dogma of copyright law against fan-games. Fuck it all, im gonna go play old stuff instead, just like i do with TV, Movies and comics.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I doubt so, it just became less accesible, ironically the only ones that are safe for now of the poor choices of sharks above are the "Criminals" and those that play from small makers

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

 

[ChallahBread]

Gaming itself? Absolutely not. The average company and consumer base are all made up of people that aren't on forums like these and also don't care as much about keeping it alive. We'll end up making our own stuff and PC will dominate the field.

The industry? I hope so. Ever since greedy companies and figureheads and influencers took over like rats in the walls and decided that gaming should be more like the film industry (bigger budget, bigger crew, "better looking" which really just means "realistic" at the cost of creativity, meaningless awards, cast reveals, dubious bad actors pushing agendas and ruining everything, more movie than game, etc), it's been getting worse and worse as it's also been getting more and more expensive. Come, the second crash, come.

 

[ravenclaw_mcl]

The gaming community is more ALIVE than ever right now and (I think) that's one of the main reasons this hits this big. The industry is so fucked up as of currently for the main consumer in so many aspects it's insane: Unaffordable prices, doubtful and questionable practices, and a huge middle finger to the people's efforts and appreciation for the media around it, just to favor out-of-touch executives and high-ranking seats who don't know shit other than fitting their and their shareholders pockets. Rockstar was the herald some days ago and now this happens. Since the industry shows they don't care for the media, then there's officially no problem in the community to keep preserving it at essentially all costs.

 

[extermist]

It's not dead, like what everyone else has stated in the thread.
But I wish it was, or just dead enough for the mainstream to walk away from it.
If the industry does crash (unlikely), then it might be able to have another renaissance (hopefully).

 

[JG509]

If anything, this is yet another instance of Sony shooting itself on the foot with a stupid short-sighted decition that WILL bite them back in some years.

But about anything else around... It's just that gaming is a big name-big money industry, one that still faces fierce pushback from people that doesn't want it to become shittier than this but still, it's making some big fat money.

These corporations are currently drooling in the complete worst greed these can still reasonably get, this being the worst time for electronic's prices all over, the spaghetti politics screwing those further and studios going in all directions because of the most hyped game of all time dropping inminently within the previous issues (and all of the consecuences it will bring to the game market).

It's just so much chaos that the things that matter in this hobby are being lost for a lot of people. But what if simply oneself disconnected from this chaos? The result is being able to see the most thriving gaming related communities and the massive ocean of games old-&-new everywhere just underneath the crap-mointain of corporate suits doing money talk. That's the part that is not going to simply die soon.

 

[LikwidFox]

The last physical games I bought were Destiny 2 and Starwars Battlefront. And the CD rom on my Xbox one died.