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[J & L Game 🕹️ @jnlgame]

Sony said you don't own your games… but we have all the receipts.

After Sony recently argued in court that “reasonable consumers” understand they don't actually own their digital games, fans have started compiling every example they can find where PlayStation used language suggesting otherwise.

The Consumer Rights Wiki has now documented dozens of examples of Sony using phrases like “games you own” and “you already own” across PlayStation's own websites and services.

That evidence is being collected as part of the wider backlash surrounding Sony's digital ownership policies and the ongoing lawsuit over how PlayStation presents digital game purchases.

Sony's legal argument hasn't been decided by a court yet, but gamers clearly aren't letting the company's older wording disappear.

Do you think Sony's old “you own” wording will come back to haunt them?

[OnlyGoodGames™ @OGG1993]

Time to make a statement ✊🏻

[Tech Ultimatum @TechieUltimatum]

LET’S NOT PLAY ON PLAYSTATION FOR ONE WEEK. 🎮

Starting tomorrow, August 23 through August 30, let’s support the #PSBlackout campaign.

So for one week:
❌ Don’t play on PlayStation
❌ Don’t buy games
❌ Don’t make in-game purchases
❌ Skip PS Store purchases
❌ Skip logins & purchases
❌ Cancel/avoid subscriptions if you can
📀 Support physical games & preservation

The goal isn’t to hurt developers. It’s to send Sony a clear message:

Gamers still want the choice to own their games.

If you support physical media, join the #PSBlackout from August 23–30.

Would you participate? 👇

Sony is moving new PlayStation releases toward digital-only or code-in-box formats after January 2028.

This isn’t just about discs. It’s about ownership, preservation and access.

If a digital store shuts down one day, what happens to the games you paid for?

Some gamers are even considering Switch 2 or PC as alternatives for long-term ownership.

No PlayStation. No Sony game purchases. No in-game spending. August 23–30.

Would you join the #PSBlackout? 🔥

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

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[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

When Christopher Nolan promoted the Oppenheimer (2023) Blu-ray and 4K release, he said:

“We worked hard on this so you have a version to buy and own. Put it on the shelf so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”

[IGN @IGN]

Sony’s decision to end production of PlayStation discs for new games from 2028 threatens to destroy the second-hand market, analysts have said. https://t.co/Q3zeeo04SZ

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

20 days since the cowardly and creatively and ethically bankrupt Sony announced their plan to end physical games by January 2028, to start a monopoly, end second hand market and options and eliminate player ownership🚀

Still no communication despite massive global backlash that transcended the gaming world into various industries turning Sony into a topic for ridicule.

We will not waver or give up

Enough pretending like corporations are doing us a charity by existing

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[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

[Nose @NoseOfDeath]

This is the 2nd PHYSICAL product your promoting since your fuck up.

We KNOW you hear us and we're not gonna stop until you reverse your decision.

Go fuck yourself.

[Pascal Laurent @Pascal_Laurent_]

🇳🇴 VOICI POURQUOI ERLING HAALAND FAIT PASSER TOUTES LES AUTRES "STARS" DU FOOTBALL MONDIAL POUR DES MINUS.

[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.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.

Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[oli @highkeyoli]

minecraft seed hunters have found a seed that has EVERY SINGLE biome AND structure within 1000 blocks of 0,0 (screenshots using voxy to increase render distance)

found by u/ShoowMe7777777
seed: 8500081009970950196

[NikTek @NikTek]

It looks like DLSS 5 was an AI-gen filter after all.

YouTube Creator “Daniel Owen” asked Nvidia some questions regarding DLSS 5 and if it essentially just takes a single 2D frame with motion vectors as input to generate the output frame.

The amount of buzz words Jensen Huang said like; Neural Rendering, Content-Control Generative AI and generative control at the geometry level just to end up admitting that DLSS 5 is what everyone suspected;

an AI filter on top of your video-games.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

Americans should not be required to pay another cent in taxes because we very clearly no longer have any representation.

Taxation without Representation.