I just got Flinched 4 times by bite in a row, then Leech Life'd by Mars. Then Purugly ended up critting me 4 times in a row, sweeping the whole team. What the fuck
Alright, so lately I've picked up playing Pokémon again as I'm somewhat excited for Winds and Waves. I decided I'd start back from Gen 4, where I first played Platinum.
I'll be tweeting this playthrough as I don't have a way to stream it cause why tf not? So here we go.
So y'all know the backgrounds of the nicknames:
Starry- none
Doofoo- Neptunia reference with Dogoo, but Bidoof
Torsion - Exp grind is like Testicular Torsion.
Brother Shinxan- Rabsopetty reference to Brotha Shinhan
Piplin- Just kinda came up with this and it fit to me idk.
If you ever need furniture, don't use @Wayfair . I just had to pay a $120 return fee because they couldn't cancel an order before it was even shipped. Absolute awful service.
@khaos_hero Ys if you follow a guide for the first 2 games or so are about 15 hours long each. After 1 and 2 they range anywhere from 20-40 hours dependent on if you do the side quests.
Did a little research into this "85% of games bought on Playstation are digital". So I decided to look at the EXACT wording of what that meant.
Spoiler: Its not "Out of 100 copies of Spiderman sold, 85% are digital"
Here's how they calculate it.
Digital Units sold, Divided by Total Units sold, times 100.
Straight forward right?
In Q4 of 2025, sony sold 74.6 million units in total, that is both Digital and Physical units.
But the "85% of all games bought are digital" has a HUGE skew to it. Why? Because there are THOUSANDS of DIGITAL only games that do not get a PHYSICAL release. Think the 5$-20$ indie titles or digital only ports of older games.
However, those digital sales are counted AGAINST the physical sales. Meaning? Even if EVERYONE who stopped buying Physical in the past 5 years, went out and bought one game a month? Digital will still dominate physical because (mostly) everything thats physical is also digital, but very little that is digital is also physical.
The Comparison is not fair and when its thrown around on social media its literally framed in a way for the stat to prove how dominant Digital sales are while excluding a number of factors. Doing so would be like comparing Your local Wal-Mart's stock to Amazon.
Not only that, but there are many digital only sales that are held that puts STEEP discounts on games that in-store simply cannot do. Of course there are some games that are on sale in-store that are not on sale digitally, but those digitally only games ALSO go on sale which the retailer has Zero access to because its digital only.
There's also digital incentives where buying the game digitally grants you more content vs buying it in store, driving more sales. Then, there are some games that release digitally, and then have a physical release MONTHS later; or, allow you to play the game a few days early.
If you wanted a more fair comparison? It would be "Digital media with a simultaneous Physical Release vs The Physical Release" Having this stat would reveal the true number. But even THAT number is missing details because that also doesn't include people buying the game second hand/Used from GameStop.
However, while Im sure that stat would STILL benefit digital sales, I would suggest and conclude that it wouldn't be "85%" as many people are suggesting.
Sources:
https://t.co/x93grZtkiS
@MarshSMT I think they expect the market of plushes, TCGs and whatever else they stock that aren't games, plus the retro market, to save them. Kinda doubtful though.
For anyone upset about Sony’s move to end physical media,
I’d suggest heavily supporting Stop Killing Games
This initiative is literally fighting to protect exactly what these companies want to destroy. It aims to force publishers to ensure you can always access and play the games you paid for—even after they stop supporting them
What the fuck is Sony doing? Yeah buying digital is easier, but if a license gets revoked you're fucked. This is unacceptable and we need to make sure digital only games are well preserved.
@MarngelRambles Yeah when I saw this in theaters I could only say "wtf". I think everyone else in that theater did too cause there was nothing but silence in that room during that point.
@Ali2811426 Barbosa was pretty good once you got a hang of the extra mechanics, Dark Thorn,
MCP was a cool fight imo. Storm Rider was sick, and Shan Yu was actually one of my favorites. Tifa, Yuffie, Leon and Cloud. Hades was kinda neat for a getback. I guess the Hydra just for the meme?