>PS2 is 26 years old
>PSP is 22 years old
>Xbox 360 is 21 years old
>Nintendo DS is 20 years ago
>PS3 is 19 years old
>PS4 is 13 years old
>Switch is 8 years old
>PS5 is 6 years old
Half the consoles you grew up with are now officially Retro
Wanted to buy cyberpunk today, saw it still at $60 on the PS store, checked how much local retailers were selling the physical and found it for $30. At the end of the day, that’s all this is about. A monopoly only ensures every consumer loses.
“OnLy 20% oF gAmErS bUy PhYsIcAl”
So 1 in 5 people…
There are 132 million active PlayStation players ever month.
Thats Sony pissing off 26.4m people.
If those people buy just one physical game a year at £60, that is £1.584 billion they’re preparing to leave on the floor?
"My Side is a discordant mess of factionalism and petty squabbles overtaking all important vision-making and work, whilst The Enemy, Unified and Powerful, is cohesive and in agreement on where to go and how to destroy us."
- literally everyone for the past 10 years
People don’t realize how much this could change the gaming market.
When physical games disappear, it doesn’t just affect collectors. It affects the entire ecosystem around gaming.
Retro game stores? Many of them survive because people still buy, sell, and trade physical games. As physical media declines, some of those stores will have a much harder time staying open.
Collector’s Editions? If everything becomes digital, what’s the incentive? Are people really going to spend $200+ for a few digital cosmetics and a downloadable license? A huge part of what made those editions special was owning something tangible.
And don’t think retro prices won’t be affected. As fewer physical games are produced, the older ones become even more desirable. Supply goes down, demand goes up, and prices climb even higher.
This isn’t just about preferring discs over downloads. It’s about ownership, preservation, accessibility, local game stores, collectors, and the future of gaming as a whole.
There’s so much more at stake than people realize, and I don’t think the long term impact is good. #supportphysicalmedia
Internet down? Fuck you
Server issues? Fuck you
Finished a game and want to sell or trade it in? Fuck you
You will own nothing
We will keep raising game prices
We will raise PS Plus prices
PlayStation - Play Has Limits, and fuck you.
This kills consoles. No hyperbole. The whole point of a console is to a special, in person experience with the games, going to the store, getting the disc out, and playing it forever to your hearts content
If all consoles will be now is just PC’s with less features, count me out
Le acabas de dar a la forma de vida más rápida la habilidad de acumular energía cinética y acelerar sin prácticamente límite.
Esa cosa de un Spin Dash se sale de la línea temporal