writer_of_wrongs

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

[David Freeman @F_DaVid_A]

Me consta de buena mano (de varios publishers y Devs) que SONY no se esperaba un backlash tan Hardcore.

Les ha caído la del pulpo con lo de matar el físico.

Y sé de sobra que Sony no quiere recular y los boicotts sirven poco, pero sí diría: NO PARÉIS. DIA Y NOCHE.

[Ka Viand 🇵🇸 @hachitori_kuri]

GET THAT SHIT AWAY FROM MY COUNTRY YOU FUCKS

[Mikee 🩷💚💙 @MikeeGulla]

This diva is giving some hard a$$ facts!
Funny how the WHITE commentators spent more time explaining Maya's struggles–"maybe her strings are loose", etc–instead of admitting that Alex Eala was playing the better tennis. It's that simple. 🙄

[MBG @xMBGx]

Just to show you how scummy Sony is being with this news.

They anticipated their numbers would drop through people protesting/boycotting by canceling Ps Plus and pre-orders but they won't have to show their numbers to investors until the end of September.

Their next earnings call is July 31st however it only covers up to June 30th. They planned this out perfectly to drop it on July 1st for this very reason. The numbers dip early July, they have over 2 months to watch them HOPEFULLY recover as the deperate gamers crawl back and the investors see that Sony moving away from physical games didn't hurt anything.

Keep this is mind as we move forward. Sony is betting on you caving and crawling back to them in the coming weeks. Oh and so are the investors.

[Canadian Guy Eh @Canadianguyehh]

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

[Lazgar Lockman; artificer, blacksmith, goofball @Lazgar_lockman]

Investors are, by far, the worst thing to happen to video games ever. Every shitty decision can be traced back to 'shareholder value"

[writer_of_wrongs @believerofonce]

Hell. Maybe even just stick to board and card games even 😮‍💨😁

[writer_of_wrongs @believerofonce]

Sony's news made me think we ought to start weaning ourselves off of purchasing digital. Rediscover hard copies like discs, tapes, books. Revive "burning" copies and sharing via memory sticks and borrowing books from each other—which back in the day taught me to read fast 🥹

[Star Wars Timeline (Ben) 🇷🇺🇺🇸 @SWT_Channel]

@shanaka86 As a lifelong SONY fan since 1995 this is where I sign off.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

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??

[writer_of_wrongs @believerofonce]

Oh. One more reason for me I guess

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

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.

[Rachelyn @RachelynMontero]

LOL aminin nyo na special treatment ginagawa nyo sa mga nasa EDSA ngayon.

hindi kayo ganyan kapag progressive groups. Matic may pa water canon kayo pag ginulat kayong ganyan. eme-eme nyo

[(No) Signal @NopeSignal]

Anyone who has worked in a movie theater knows this is a lie, because we dead ass play the movie even if nobody shows up.

[pötpöt🌷 @JaykeAlo214]

@dumidyeypee @MessMinchin3 Sana ibalita nyo to @ABSCBNNews @gmanews @TV5manila @PhilippineStar @inquirerdotnet dapat makita ng buong Pilipinas kung gaano kasama yang cool to na yan

[JP T&T @dumidyeypee]

Sinabi sa kawawang rider: "Tao ka nga, huwag ka nang magsasalita. Gusto mo bang mamatay?"

Nakakagalit.

https://t.co/FoFukK3xyg

[Pop Buzz @popbuzzz_]

When Melissa Benoist was cast as Supergirl, the show faced significant backlash upon release. Then Sasha Calle took on the role faced similar criticism and now Milly Alcock as super girl is being heavily targettedd.

The issue isn’t with the actresses themselves. It seems some men simply can’t accept or handle women with superpowers, and resort to bullying as a result

[Brooks | 🏳️‍🌈 @brookstweetz]

Hey @variety this is how you write a headline you stupid bitch

[Eric Bourdages @EZE3D]

AI Bros - "It's not stealing, anyone who says it's stealing just doesn't know what they're talking about."

Meanwhile

Google - "Pretty please can you change the laws for us so we can get away with stealing."

[marlo 🌱 @marshmarlos]

I will not be subtle about this - generative AI is both killing the planet and trained off of human work, stealing their original ideas and style without their consent.

It has NO place in creative spaces, even for “small” things like spellcheck and translation.

[Mangingisda 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @MangingisdaSays]

Why does Israel keep meddling with the Philippines?

First, the rude tourists in Siargao.
Next, the Pax Silica, an AI Hub project with the US, in Central Luzon.
And now THIS!!!

Palawan is nature's last frontier in the country. Its forests are being endangered by mining!