>Digital only
The good old anti consumer tactic of excluding the second hand games market.
Everything must be single use, prices set by the lone storefront monopoly.
Sony encourages this by selling their restrictive product at a ludicrously low price to trick people into forgetting that after purchase they're trapped into owning nothing.
If your PSN account is banned, that's it. Bye bye functionality & purchases.
I don't mean to be negative, but we fought hard against this back when the always online Xbox One launched. Only for Nintendo to normalised not having any data on a game key & single use products a decade later with the Switch 2.
I'm kinda passionate about warning people over the dangers of buying maliciously hostile anti-consumer products.
Because if a disc free Playstation ever exceeded what hidden internal sales requirement Sony has.
The next playstation will 100% be digital only. You will pay at least $80 and a online subscription for games you do not own.
A digital license isn't the same as physical ownership. One is dependent on a third party licensor, the other isn't.
As much as I like Physical games and still have 100's of PlayStation disc games from PS3-PS5 (I sold everything prior to that and emulate it), I find this scare mongering over digital a bit much.
Do you know how much of an effort it is to actually get a perma ban on PSN? You have to be a real arsehole and repeatedly send awful messages and say some really bad stuff to get a perma ban.
You can get quite a few suspensions before they actually issue a full ban. I've personally had two suspensions in the last 6 years. One I disagree with because someone who I beat on Virtua Fighter sent me a message "Stop playing on WiFi" to which I replied "You're Mum's a WiFi".
That was a 12 hour suspension that I didn't even notice because it was while I was asleep!
The other suspension was my fault because I tried to see if account sharing still worked like it did on PS3. It does not!
But digital games can be played over the cloud on a portal, can never accidently get broken because you dropped it or lost because you moved stuff. And because they take up zero actual space in your house, you're wife can't moan they are taking up room or try to make you sell them!
