Devon2theWest

[Ultima @UltimaShadowX]

I am confused. Why attend a physical event? Surely this could have been digital only. 🤔

[MBG @xMBGx]

Sony PlayStation's public apology for the 2011 PSN outage.

[Keifer @DannyVegito]

Bam was kind of an evil little shit but he’s vital to Jackass because of his almost supernaturally funny physicality the moment something goes south for him. He revels in tormenting others but truly shines when he’s the one suffering. He’s like a real life Daffy Duck

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Harsh reminder:

Shuhei Yoshida, the previous Head of Playstation, cared a lot about the customer. He was the one who made sure the PS4 had physical shareable discs that you could lend to friends or buy/sell used.

Then one day, the then President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan kicked Shuhei Yoshida out of the position of Head of PlayStation in 2019 because Yoshida disagreed with his direction for the company.

In hindsight, Jim Ryan’s “direction” became Playstation’s obsession with live service. Yoshida presumably told Ryan that it was a bad idea, and turns out, it was.

With Shuhei Yoshida gone, Hermen Hulst took his place.

After that, Playstation changed - the gutting of Sony Japan Studios in 2021, censorship of Japanese games ramped up, the live service, and the increase in consumer-hostile decisions such as PSN+ price hikes, removing games and movies from your library…

And now the decision to abandon physical discs by 2028.

When you look back at what made Playstation start to rot, it always started when Sony Interactive Entertainment moved its operations to California…and having leadership who want to do everything in their power to get rid of what made Playstation special.

You will never get another Shadow of the Colossus, another Bloodborne or a Gravity Rush - and you have people like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst to thank for it.

[Legión Looterana @LegionLooterana]

🚨 DECLARACIONES DEMOLEDORAS

🔥🎮 Shawn Layden, Ex Presidente de PlayStation Studios:

🗣️ "Supongo que habrán pensado que, si el 80% de los consumidores representan el 95% de sus ingresos, no hay incentivos suficientes para mantener en marcha el otro 20% que solo da un 5%. Pero en la época de PlayStation 4 jamás hubiéramos dejado atrás a esas personas. No sé que ha cambiado, pero es una decisión francamente DRAMÁTICA”

#Playstation #GamingNews

[stafki 👾 @Stafki_GTN]

this is actually insane now that I think about it. Discs literally made PlayStation better than the competition at the time.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

When Quentin Tarantino & a group of other notable filmmakers were asked, "What movie scene they would put in a time capsule to define the meaning and power of cinema in case an Atomic bomb goes off?", Tarantino picked the final action scene of Stanley Tong's "Police Story 3: Super Cop" (1992) starring Jackie Chan & Michelle Yeoh, which he said that the aliens would be amazed if they ever saw it.

Here in his own words:

"I would frankly tell you the truth. I would probably take a really magnificent cinematic action scene, one of the really great action scenes of all time. (...) The final climax of "Police Story 3: Super Cop" (1992). That is a sequence that aliens would watch and be amazed at what they saw. I could go for some more slickly made action scenes and that could work too but that would be a thing of what Cinema could do that could actually give you an understanding of Cinema in all of its bells and whistles and movement."

("Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Alejandro Inarritu & More | THR Directors Roundtable", 2016)

P.S: On this day, 34 years ago, "Police Story 3: Super Cop" (1992) was released in Hong Kong.

[Matthew @Batman_Beware]

This is a genuine art form that they’re trying to kill

[Devon2theWest @Badfella511]

@FearedBuck Man leaving the room like:

[Radec @realradec]

2011

[GermanStrands @GermanStrands]

This really hits hard right now... It looks like Wolverine is going to be one of the last PlayStation Studios games to be released on disc.

Laufey, Intergalactic and maybe some unknow game...

[Poorly Aged Things @PoorlyAgedStuff]

you used to be cool.

[Radec @realradec]

and so will the official It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia XMB theme 😔

[𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 -`♡´- @nitezintodreamz]

First they came for the themes

[Ryan McCaffrey @DMC_Ryan]

It isn't even about PlayStation vs. Xbox at this point. It's about corporations vs. consumers.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Radec @realradec]

Tons of PSN Avatars that are only on the PS3 Store will be GONE FOREVER after the shutdown

These are NOT available to purchase on PS4/PS5, so if there are any Avatars you want in your library to use as your main PSN pfp make sure you buy them ASAP

[Pory @pory_leeks]

FUCK CAPITALISM, FUCK GREEDY CORPORATIONS, FUCK SONY, FUCK DIGITAL LICENSES, FUCK SAM ALTMAN, FUCK AI, FUCK DATACENTERS, FUCK PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS, FUCK EM ALL.

[AGSLIVE @hard8_times]

When I buy digital, it's MY CHOICE. When you take that away from me, that's a problem. Gran Turismo 7 is $38.99 on Amazon, but it's $70 on the PS Store. At this point, the choice is mine to make, but taking that choice away is a problem. if you don't understand that FUCK YOU 🖕

[Radec @realradec]

turns out the Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video won't apply to PS6 games at all

sad day indeed