Sony ending physical disc production in 2028, going digital only

[random0nonsense]

Allegedly Microsoft's Project Helix is joining the "no media" club, though I haven't seen any substantial proof.

 

[extermist]

This was coming eventually, but I was not looking forward to it and I'm not happy its here. These assholes just pulled millions of movies already purchased from millions of customers and you can bet they'll do the same with games. We will own nothing.

2028 is a long way from now, if anything this might be sony's way of warning people to stay away from it's ecosystem.

Like what would it any of this matter to someone who doesn't even use a playstation?
It's practically a warning sign telling people that there's a broken bridge up ahead, so people should just not go down this road and find alternatives.

 

[PhaseJump]

2028 is a long way from now

17 months is no time at all.

 

[BrawlMan]

this might be sony's way of warning people to stay away from it's ecosystem.

Yeah, a warning for whales and the super fat rich "to buy our mediocre and even overly expensive product", just to flash their wealth. Sony and microsoft are basically vegas at this point. They don't care. They cut out the "little people" or lower class. They just want rich or wealthy people, and that's enough for them.

They're not gonna cut down any cost, nor make adjustments and everything will be the same pricing digitally (or increase at some point), but more expensive.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Okay, buy why now? This isn't new.

This has been happening for a very long time at this point. Switch 1 had carts without the full game on it, key cards aren't new, they're just marked as such now. Do people not know this?


You're giving the corpos money...

..They don'y make physical games for PC.........


So little of this conversation makes sense to me.

1. It is new. You have an entire console manufacturer completely getting out of a physical media. In the case of Switch 2, plenty of games aren't Game-Key Cards, and in the case of Microsoft, a lot of actual physical games are still available from third-party publishers.
2. I'm specifically talking about the corpos getting out of physical media. I'll be supporting Nintendo as long as they're committed to physical media.
3. I didn't say there's physical PC games--though there are in some instances through Limited Run Games (mostly USB sticks instead of discs). I said the only reason I still buy consoles was for physical media. Without it, there's no reason for consoles. Additionally, PC games can be backed up. GOG's particularly good about that. That's what's great about an open ecosystem. You can also sail the seven seas or wait for the Epic Store to give the games away. I have an absolutely massive library on the Epic Store that I've never spent a single cent on.

 

[OsirisX]

I feel like physical games haven't really been a major thing for most people for nearly a decade. Just look at gamestop now.

Idk. I kinda understand the issue, but at the same time I think game preservation has been taking place digitally on PC as it is. Half the time any old game I'd want to actually buy is over priced on ebay anyway, and so I emulate it.

 

[ThunderBoy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2072667103027671307

 

[extermist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2072667103027671307

That's good news!
How great would it be if sony only has investors and no customers?

 

[Leon]

Yeah saw this coming, basically sony speedrunning the death of consoles.

isn't PC basically all digital by now? don't see how that changes things...

Pc is all digital in a sense, in actual effect however you could argue that pc was more capable of physical media than consoles have been since the ps3 era.

You can take a drm free gog or steam game, or ahem "sail" for a cracked version of a game you own and back it up to a disc, truth is piracy makes the "pc is digital" argument moot as you can in fact make pc physical games if you want to, it's such a niche that there are cd image covers out there for pc games if you look hard enough, for some of the most hardcore, if a game has a digital manual some people will even print their own manuals.

Ignoring that though, digital on pc is much different than on console because you can back up your files, you can't on ps5, if sony pulls the plug, there goes your games.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2072667103027671307

I'm sure sony won't walk it back, but it will be a big mistake in the long run.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Pirate every game they have ever made! Everything from Ridge Racer to whatever releases on the day they stop making CDs! Then every time they release a new game on the PS5 and PS6 pirate that too! Oh, and pirate all of their movies and their TV shows and be sure to share them with everyone you know! Buy their hardware second hand only! BLEED! THEM! DRY! Maybe if we're lucky they'll have to sell the rights to Spider-Man back to Marvel just to stay afloat!

 

[Kovlak]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2072667103027671307

That's good news!
How great would it be if sony only has investors and no customers?

Perverse financial incentive

 

[Viviana Santos]

It's truly incredible how Sony has been doing everything they can over the past six years to destroy its own brand in the most embarrassing ways possible.

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I was already really angry and lost a lot of respect for Sony when they announced they were shutting down Japan Studios, but this is a hundred times worse.

 

[extermist]

This doesn't even include "dynamic pricing" kek

 

[Lena CE]

Pretty much checking out of modern gaming at this point. 90% of Switch 2 carts are game key cards on top of costing more than the digital version, and both Sony and Microsoft are finally jumping ship from physical on top of doing everything they can to release less compelling software and be more hostile to the devs that work under them. Time to just really dig into that backlog and appreciate the past 40ish years of history this artform has, cause something is gonna have to be really good and run well on my 4060 for me to bother with anything new after 2027. Don't have much drive to spend money on PC upgrades when most modern games are whatever to me and everything that isn't AAA or higher end AA will likely run great on what I already have for quite some time. Consoles are dead to me...

The saddest part for me is that I graduated high school the same year everything started to really go downhill, 2013. That's when Sony started their downturn and when Microsoft fully blew any chances of maintaining brand relevance longterm. The only devices I've been happy to purchase post-graduation are my PS3 (yes I got a PS3 in 2013 over a PS4), my Vita, my New 3DS and my Switch. PS4 is a system I played quite a lot of hours on but ultimately was a letdown, especially post-2017. My Xbox One was a decent game pass machine for a couple years but outside of Killer Instinct 2013, Sea of Thieves and Halo 5's multiplayer I can't say there are many exclusives I gave a shit about.

Ya spend your childhood waiting until you can finally start working and buy retro games and new systems on release, especially if you're one of many people who grew up having to wait years and years to finally have the latest and greatest systems. Then you finally graduate and the industry just keeps sinking lower and lower and you have to engage this hobby of yours with endless cynicism because there is just so little good news ever coming out of that space. Retro blew up and has become an overpriced investors playground treated more like a stock market and a "hobby" for people who have more money than sense and modern gaming just sucks more and more.

Oh well...

 

[extermist]

Pretty much checking out of modern gaming at this point. 90% of Switch 2 carts are game key cards on top of costing more than the digital version, and both Sony and Microsoft are finally jumping ship from physical on top of doing everything they can to release less compelling software and be more hostile to the devs that work under them. Time to just really dig into that backlog and appreciate the past 40ish years of history this artform has, cause something is gonna have to be really good and run well on my 4060 for me to bother with anything new after 2027. Don't have much drive to spend money on PC upgrades when most modern games are whatever to me and everything that isn't AAA or higher end AA will likely run great on what I already have for quite some time. Consoles are dead to me...

The saddest part for me is that I graduated high school the same year everything started to really go downhill, 2013. That's when Sony started their downturn and when Microsoft fully blew any chances of maintaining brand relevance longterm. The only devices I've been happy to purchase post-graduation are my PS3 (yes I got a PS3 in 2013 over a PS4), my Vita, my New 3DS and my Switch. PS4 is a system I played quite a lot of hours on but ultimately was a letdown, especially post-2017. My Xbox One was a decent game pass machine for a couple years but outside of Killer Instinct 2013, Sea of Thieves and Halo 5's multiplayer I can't say there are many exclusives I gave a shit about.

Ya spend your childhood waiting until you can finally start working and buy retro games and new systems on release, especially if you're one of many people who grew up having to wait years and years to finally have the latest and greatest systems. Then you finally graduate and the industry just keeps sinking lower and lower and you have to engage this hobby of yours with endless cynicism because there is just so little good news ever coming out of that space. Retro blew up and has become an overpriced investors playground treated more like a stock market and a "hobby" for people who have more money than sense and modern gaming just sucks more and more.

Oh well...

2013 isn't bad, I remember how 2007 onwards was a downward spiral for me with very very very few games that came out here and there.

 

[ThunderBoy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2073021943671132601

 

[extermist]

 

[dkpopman]

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[HyperTurboFox]

I don't care about the PS6 and the PS5 have no games.
Hail the Seven Seas!

 

[RetroFox]

I'm already mostly a PC gamer, but I've had PlayStation since PS1 and have a PS5 Pro now. I always buy disc games of the AAA single-player narrative type stuff you find on PS. God of War, The Last of Us, even third-party stuff like Assassin's Creed despite having a high-end PC that's better than PS5 Pro.

Why? Once I beat them I'll never touch them again, and sometimes I buy games I end up not liking that much. I was bored of God of War Ragnarok by the time I finished it, and dropped AC: Shadows after about 20 hours because it was so repetitive. Since I got the disc versions, I was able to just resell them online for $50 or so and get most of my money back. Because of that, they were worth buying.

Paying $70+ for a game I'm stuck with forever, even if I never wanna play it again, or didn't even like? No thanks.

And people who say "but PC is all digital!" Sure but Steam is much better about refunds, and there's plenty of ways to get much cheaper or even free games. The game selection itself is vastly better anyway, with endless amazing games that aren't AAA priced.

 

[HyperTurboFox]

I'm already mostly a PC gamer, but I've had PlayStation since PS1 and have a PS5 Pro now. I always buy disc games of the AAA single-player narrative type stuff you find on PS. God of War, The Last of Us, even third-party stuff like Assassin's Creed despite having a high-end PC that's better than PS5 Pro.

Why? Once I beat them I'll never touch them again, and sometimes I buy games I end up not liking that much. I was bored of God of War Ragnarok by the time I finished it, and dropped AC: Shadows after about 20 hours because it was so repetitive. Since I got the disc version, I was able to just resell them online for $50 or so and get most of my money back. Because of that, they were worth buying.

Paying $70+ for a game I'm stuck with forever, even if I never wanna play it again, or didn't even like? No thanks.

And people who say "but PC is all digital!" Sure but Steam is much better about refunds, and there's plenty of ways to get much cheaper or even free games. The game selection itself is vastly better anyway, with endless amazing games that aren't AAA priced.

To me, $50 games and below is good. $60 is pushing it!
$70 and up is just filler to have DLC out of the gate.

 

[Kovlak]

I don't care about the PS6 and the PS5 have no games.
Hail the Seven Seas!

Going after piracy is probably next on the agenda of videogame companies like PlayStation and Microsoft, and powerful lobbies like that of the saudis and Jared Kushner, owners of EA.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Going after piracy is probably next on the agenda of videogame companies like PlayStation and Microsoft, and powerful lobbies like that of the saudis and Jared Kushner, owners of EA.

Bingo. Once everything's digital, they're all going to go scorched earth, Nintendo-style, when it comes to piracy. It's going to suck.

 

[Kovlak]

Bingo. Once everything's digital, they're all going to go scorched earth, Nintendo-style, when it comes to piracy. It's going to suck.

And they're probably going to use the governments to do it. Companies probably are already instrumentalizing governments to implement digital ids.

The future of entertainment is going to suck.

 

[Leon]

Bingo. Once everything's digital, they're all going to go scorched earth, Nintendo-style, when it comes to piracy. It's going to suck.

Definitely gonna try, gonna be very difficult to succeed without censoring the internet though, so expect that first, though if they do that, stuff tends to go crazy like the violent riots in europe you don't hear about much.