MikeyT92

[MikeyT92 @T92Mikey]

This has broken containment. It's not just social media outcry now when it's hitting mainstream media.

The PR disaster for Sony and PlayStation is growing...

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Movies still come on Blu-ray, music is still pressed on vinyl and books still fill store shelves. But as Sony moves to phase out physical PlayStation releases, many gamers are asking why video games should be the first major entertainment medium to go all digital. https://t.co/FagoUG3JVU

[MikeyT92 @T92Mikey]

I've made a thing! Talking about the state of Console Gaming and looking at what the future has and the dread coming from it all! Please give it a look!

https://t.co/fq2jrqMK3e

[MikeyT92 @T92Mikey]

Santa Monica = The GOATs

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

We can confirm God of War Laufey will be available on disc.

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

Refuting dumb arguments against physical games🚀

🗣️“85% of players buy digital”

✅15% or even 5% in this industry is still millions of people bringing in hundreds of millions of not billions o revenue

🗣️“Netflix and Spotify ended movie and music Blu-Rays and CDs”

✅Movies are still being sold on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD Blu-Rays, and music is still released on CDs, vinyl records and even collectible cassette tapes that actually work, despite being far smaller and less demanding than video games which can go over 100GB

🗣️“I haven’t bought a physical game for 10 years! It’s obsolete”

✅Your experience with games does not automatically reflect everyone else’s. If you don’t care, don’t get in the way

🗣️“It’s expensive to make games on disc”

✅Games won’t be cheaper when man all digital. You will pay the same price for a glorified rental that can be taken any time due to licensing agreements or account loss/suspension

🗣️“You’re too broke, you want to buy second hand and resell games”

✅Being a bootlicker to corporations that don’t know you exist, does not make you any less broke than those you accuse and posture in front of behind a keyboard

Physical games should always be an option. Video games are far more than just a file to download or “access” to gain. They hold sentimental value to players and collectors.

Raise your voices, players, game makers, gaming and memorabilia stores. Let us overturn this predatory decision!

Video games are an art form, not just a business and the value players hold for them should be honored and not reduced to a code to redeem and a download to revoke😎

[NIB @nib95_]

Seen several quote #PlayStation's 78% digital full game sales, thus omitting important context.

That figure includes countless digital only releases, from back catalogue to indie games etc. Even Capcom revealed 84% of its sales were "older catalog titles", many of which are only available digitally.

So using such data is somewhat misleading.

To gauge REAL physical demand you need to look at splits of games that released both physical AND digital only. Thanks to the Insomniac leaks, we have such data on PS first party games.

Playstation Physical / Digital splits

Sackboy - 77% / 23%
R&C Rift Apart - 76% / 24%
Ghost of Tsushima DC - 71% / 29%
Demon's Souls - 70% / 30%
Miles Morales - 66% / 34%
Spider-Man - 66% / 34%
Returnal - 61% / 39%
The Last of Us 2 - 61% / 39%
Ghost of Tsushima - 51% / 49%
MLB The Show 21 - 39% / 61%

So per Sony's own internal data, 31/33 first party games from their chart sold more PHYSICAL than they did digital.

Uncharted 4 actually has an insane 83% physical split.

Granted it only covers through to a few months into 2022, but we can see from other more recent data, things haven't drastically changed. For example GSD data shows ~60% of Astro Bot sales across Europe were physical.

So what skews revenue and data more digital, beyond digital only releases and platforms? The answer is games with LIVE SERVICE components, especially multiplatform ones.

As you can see from Sony's internal data, MLB has the highest digital split, and it's a live service game.

Generally the highly popular live service or annualised games such as Call of Duty, NBA 2K, FIFA etc, have higher digital splits, as gamers are constantly launching them (often daily) and don't want to be constantly switching discs, thus skewing digital/physical splits.

It's very different to single player games which are shorter and have different play and consumer trends. So again, context matters.

Then there's a MASSIVE audience of gamers that aren't even accounted for in any of this data; the countless consumers that buy and sell used physical games, because they simply can't afford as many new games, but still buy/own consoles, accessories, games, services etc. Everything from poor parents, kids etc.

Ultimately, the data rejects the notion physical is dead or meaningless, even if digital accounts for the overall lionshare of revenue/sales, especially when you look at things with the proper context and/or focus on single player tentpole games, which is PlayStation's bread and butter.

Keep in mind platforms make a 15% licensing fee from third parties on physical games, while they get a 30% cut on digital.

Likewise first party lose a 30% cut to retailers on physical, while they keep all of the revenue on digital.

As I said before, this move to kill physical is more about PlayStation trying to make far more profit and squeeze away the last remnants of consumer ownership, control, flexibility and resale, and could have greater negative market ramifications.

[MikeyT92 @T92Mikey]

This is such bullshit. Fuck Sony. You'll own nothing and be happy about it and pay whatever price we dictate. Fuck this shit, feels so dystopian

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[MikeyT92 @T92Mikey]

Such a nonsense article. These developers or games aren't entitled to our time or money just because. Fuck off with this just consume product. I gave it a go, think it's a pretty poor game I'm not gonna keep playing because "They deserve a chance" do me a favour.

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Highguard deserves a chance, so don't kill it out of spite https://t.co/TDcDm1HsRV

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Gaza - a graveyard of International Law.
Gaza - a graveyard of human rights.
Gaza - a graveyard of western morality.
Gaza - a graveyard of world’s humanity.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇮🇱: "All you have to do is just release the hostages and we'll stop."

They released them. But Israel did not stop bombing Gaza. Israel did not stop K!LLING children.

Why are you quiet now?

[The Zelda Realm @the_zeldarealm]

I worked really hard on this video, so would be a shame to not share far and wide!

All about Calamo and his links to BotW and TotK! Hope you all enjoy!

An 8 Year Zelda Mystery Finally Solved
https://t.co/NJ7adFNyFu

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

Thank you to @MarkJSewards, @BenGoldsborough and all the other MPs who attended this debate for the informed discussion and enthusiastic support for #StopKillingGames!

You can find his remarks and a public record transcript of Monday's debate here: https://t.co/N5lfMcyexw

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Tadhg Hickey @TadhgHickey from the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, speaks about coming face-to-face with the inhumane cruelty of the israelis

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Fuck Israel.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla boats Florida and All In have been seized by occupation forces, with all crew members taken.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“You can’t bomb the truth away”

My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.

[Global UPDATES @GlobalUpdates24]

BREAKING –

Netanyahu says, "Israel wants peace in the Middle East"

In other news, Israel became the first country to bоmb 6 countries in a week

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

🇮🇱 Israel:

"We don't want war”

✅KiIIed the Gaza negotiator
✅KiIIed the negotiator’s family
✅KiIIed the Iranian negotiators
✅Bombed the Qatar negotiatiors
✅Bombed the capital of Iran
✅Bombed the capital of Lebanon
✅Invaded Lebanon
✅Invaded Syria

They want peace 🤡

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The degree to which Western countries are willing to humiliate their own citizens - and themselves - simply to enable Israel to continue to commit genocide, is beyond belief...

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023. It’s the deadliest war for media workers in history.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

“Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide”