@TSakugaArt@nataliapodpukr@Genki_JPN What PS5 games would I add? Sony 1st party don't interest me. The 2 (by now, 1) remaining PS5 games (Trails series) I'm going to buy are also available on PC. I don't care if the PS6 has a drive for backcompat, I'm not going to buy a PS6 just for that, I'll play new games on PC.
@harleyf33@Genki_JPN The question is: how will this strategy bode for the PS6 and the future in general? Personally, I spent hundreds on (physical) games a year. Now I will only give them their share for 2 more games i really want physical. Everything else will go to Steam, GoG and Nintendo.
@TSakugaArt@nataliapodpukr@Genki_JPN If they had never announced this disc stoppage and just announced a PS6 with a disc drive? Yes, i most probably would have bought it for 1k.
Now? I'm only going to buy 2 more PS5 games i really want physical. The rest will be PC streamed to my TV using Moonlight.
@whereisaaron@ZhugeEX About half the people choose this really unpopular product called disc if they actually have the choice. That the case wherever we have the numbers, be it Pragmata, RE9, Astro Bot or whatever.
@sup3rShinobi@Rino_Pandiangan@Genki_JPN Yeah, your calculation should have been 6.7/(6.7 + 32.9) = 16.9% (the difference to 16.8% is most probably rounding errors)
@VastDistortions@Genki_JPN What are you talking about? Physical games make up at least 30% of the sales where you actually have the option to buy physically (consoles without Switch 2 for newly released games).
@deeboipics@Genki_JPN But there is GoG, other competitors and if necessary other more.... swashbuckling... means.
Sony will have a complete monopoly over sales on PS, and monopolies have never ever been a good thing for any user.
@ShadowofGodjira@Genki_JPN Also remove all platforms where they don't sell physical in the first place (PC and Switch 2) and all the old games they don't sell physically anymore. You'll end up looking at 30% or more physical.
@Tadeusz2321@Genki_JPN At least these "brainless degenerates" can interpret numbers correctly contrary to you. It is at least 30% where you actually have a choice to buy physical.
@LaGrossePlotte@Peatnik@Genki_JPN To play on a big TV in the living room with a home cinema setup and comfortably on the couch.
Well, i took my consequences from Sony's announcement, upgraded my network and will use Sunshine & Moonlight to stream from my PC to my laptop which is hooked to the TV.
@gamer_in_loop@Bullseye65_@Genki_JPN But obviously not by lack of demand. If you look at these numbers, at least 30% of people chose physical if the actually had a choice. Yes, physical is going to die, because they just stop selling it, not because people don't want and buy it.
@JonDoyleDesign@Genki_JPN Yeah, 17% of console sales. Now, how many of the console sales had a physical option in the the first place? No Switch 2, no older games, no DLCs. I bet the games where you had a choice were at least 30% physical, even though Pragmata and RE9 were hard to find physical.
@thomasmahler@asha_shar "That has to mean partnering with studios that are deeply connected to gaming culture."
Let's hope they change their MO, because so far this meant buying them and then closing them a few years later. Same for Sony.
@tomwarren@dinabass "One of the things I really love about the games industry is [...] what success is, is unique to each studio. There is no one size fits all to it for us". So in which metric was Hi-Fi Rush not a success?