PlayStation’s CEOs since Jim Ryan, and all the way to Nishino and Hermen Hulst have ruined the image of an iconic brand and made the worst decisions possible, and now they’re trying to penalize players for their failure🚀
✅They’re distant attitude towards fans have been going for years, when they stopped doing any live events or major appearances at E3 and the likes, which took away so much from the sense of communication with fans
✅Maintaining a cold and purely corporate approach towards fans
✅Forced studios into a failed live-service chase, leading to cancelled projects, erratic studio closures, and massive resource waste.
✅Acquiring and shutting down many studios in the last few years before they had the chance to produce anything
✅Overspent on acquisitions and projects, notably a $3.7 billion investment in Bungie and an estimated $400 million loss on Concord.
✅Barely any innovation with games, as they rely on 4 main brands for new entries, and remakes and remasters of them
✅Increased prices for PS Plus and hardware while the output has been abysmal
✅Now they’re trying to force a digital-only future where much of this corruption and incompetence will be amplified
✅They are using manipulated data to engineer this narrative that physical games are a niche market, by calculating DLC, MTX, digital only and free-to-play as “digital purchases”. Whole global physical sales for games tell a whole different story
✅64% of the world has no dedicated PS Store, meaning 64% of the world will not be able to legally acquire video games per Sony’s terms
✅Games that consist of a code in a box are region locked too
✅Ditching physical media means no competition, no options, pricing hikes and reliance on the mercy of a storefront and its functioning networks, and their support team in case issues occur
These CEOs need to go. Sony needs a team that is passionate about video games rather than vultures or feed off the blood of gamers to appease their shareholders alone.
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Almost a month and despite the backlash, PlayStation still isn't backing down on this decision. The PS5 will be my final console. I will not continue to support a company that will prioritise greed over their own customers. A reminder that this company has multiple lawsuits too.
Sony says that they have heard the backlash about their move to no longer manufacture game discs but they will still continue their plans.
“There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that digitalisation of contents overall has been progressing, that’s the big factor.”
(Source: https://t.co/obK11yam7g)
Yea I think it’s GGs unfortunately.
Buy your physicals on Switch, hope that Xbox takes advantage of this to make discs for next gen so the market that wants it can have it, and at least Steam/PC gives you more flexibility access for digital as well. If Playstation doesn’t want you, it’s gonna be up to you to make a stance to not want them back.
This disc thing is like 1 part of the problem with Playstation. Studio shutdowns, billions wasted on live service games that never even saw the light of day, lack of first party games this gen, and clearly next gen things are gonna get WORSE. This is a PS that doesn’t care, nor needs to care cuz in their mind they are the default console people will buy. I hope they are humbled beyond belief going into PS6💀
Presenting another look at the latest instalment in the Kingdom Hearts series.
Kingdom Hearts IV will launch simultaneously on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Epic Games Store and Steam!
Stay tuned for more updates.