What could go wrong? /s 🕳️
Read Vanishing Culture for more stories of cultural loss & what you can do to preserve digital history: https://t.co/M91NQlX7m2
Let’s sum things up recently with PlayStation
- Increased PS5 Prices
- Removed over 500 movies/TV shows from PS Store
- Still wants to Focus on live service games after a whole generation of failure with them
- Closed Bluepoint
- Stop Disc Production in Jan 2028
What a joke…
Announcing that you’re no longer producing physical games at the same time as announcing that you’re shutting down a digital storefront is quite the choice
On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.
Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.
First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.
Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.
Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.
A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.
That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.
Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.
This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.
Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.
The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.
Do you agree with what Sony did??
PlayStation is ending production of physical game discs for all new games, starting January 2028.
From that date, new games will be available in digital formats only.
RUMOR:
- The PS6 cost to make was $760 a few months ago
- Now it's around $1000
- Things are excepted to get "much worse" in 2027
Insane timeline 💀, NO NEED FOR NEXT GEN!!! 🗣️
Super Mario Bros (1993), hear me out, had electric cars in the parallel world. Why? Because the dinosaurs didn’t die out, they evolved. There’d be no gasoline! (I mean there would be, but the general knowledge was that gas comes from dinosaurs). It’s neat someone thought of that!
I really enjoyed Toy Story 5! It was much sweeter and more heartfelt than I thought it would be. SO much better than the 4th movie!! We can just ignore the 4th one altogether.
A flip phone that blocks social media and web browsers will soon be available for $499
The Commodore Callback will still have apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Maps, and Uber
I relate love how “barista” is the job conservatives bring up as a lazy slacker job when one shift at a moderately busy Starbucks would have them crouched between stacks of milk crates sobbing in the back room
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.
DONE AND DONE!! It took 9 mins to get through the virtual queue this year, a new record!!
My 14th New York Comic Con, HERE I COME!!
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