Chuck Power

#GoNiners

[The Green Kasey 🎃 @RawbertBeef]

WE WANT A SOLO HULK MOVIE!

[ꪜ𝖎𝔃𝔃𝔂 ✞ @sntvizzy]

Honestly I think Marvel already opened this door with how they ended his arc here. Bruce finally had peace as Professor Hulk since Endgame, and this film just rips that away and sends him back to Savage Hulk, hospitalized for psychiatric help.

That’s genuinely comic-accurate too, the fusion was never permanent in the source material. If they’re willing to put him through that, I’d actually want them to follow through and dig into the psychological damage instead of just quietly fixing him off-screen before the next movie.

[𓁄𓁅𓁆𓁇𓁄𓁅𓁆𓁇𓁈 @faaalllbaacckk]

RRRAAHH I DONT WANNA GO TO WORK TOMORROW !!
CHIDORIII !!!!

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

When given the choice, 3/4th of people who bought a PlayStation 5 bought the disc version even though it costs extra.

The disc drive for the PS5 Pro was so popular it was regularly out of stock or limited to just 1 per customer.

Sony is killing physicals out of pure greed.

[Bad Leroy Brown @Levonaxper]

"There are various reasons we made this decision“

No bitch, you have one reason and it’s a greed

[Micheal Things 🍉 @mikedoesthingss]

the fly in your car who’s been bashing its head against the window for an hour straight the SECOND you try letting it out

[Jude Knight @JudeKnight14]

Bullying corporations is always morally correct

[Dededeminion @Dededeminion]

Im surprised nobody ever mentions this, but the main reason the PS2 sold as well as it did was cause it also functioned as a DVD player, so its extra brain dead that Sony is killing physical media

[Cary Golomb @carygolomb]

Never forget that Xbox actually changed course in 2013 due to fan backlash

PlayStation weaponized physical and put their fans to work

And in the end, Sony told those same fans to pound salt

If you still buy Playstation, you have no one to blame but yourself.

[田西 @tanisi7cskv]

#タマザラシ

[JaceAVinson #SupportPhysicalMedia📀💿#BanAI @JaceAVinson]

Without physical games, I have NO reason to buy the next consoles over just getting a PC

[UNLIMITED GamesCage - Hype X Guy Z ULTRA @GamesCage_]

Yea I think it’s GGs unfortunately.

Buy your physicals on Switch, hope that Xbox takes advantage of this to make discs for next gen so the market that wants it can have it, and at least Steam/PC gives you more flexibility access for digital as well. If Playstation doesn’t want you, it’s gonna be up to you to make a stance to not want them back.

This disc thing is like 1 part of the problem with Playstation. Studio shutdowns, billions wasted on live service games that never even saw the light of day, lack of first party games this gen, and clearly next gen things are gonna get WORSE. This is a PS that doesn’t care, nor needs to care cuz in their mind they are the default console people will buy. I hope they are humbled beyond belief going into PS6💀

[Emily 💫 ➡️ PAX West @orbalology]

I will cautiously continue transitioning my game buying towards consoles with physical options (Switch 2) or storefronts with better digital options and practices (PC).

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

The fact Sony chooses to address the physical games backlash with their investors instead of the players is a very telling sign

[Jawmuncher @Jawmuncher]

The fact that Sony only responded during its earnings call says it all really.

[Does it play? @DoesItPlay1]

During today's earnings call Sony for the first time in a month reacted to the backlash against their attack on physical media. And it went about the way we expected. Let's analyze it.
(Disclaimer: We are going off of the official English translation in the clip provided. It wasn't that long of a statement, but there might be minor inaccuracies in there.)

First of all, they seem to emphasize that 18 months ahead of time is a respectable period to give notice. No comment on the fact that basically everyone was surprised by their announcement coming this soon, while PS5 is still going strong.

Then they dive into the reasons. They claim there are "various", the biggest one being that "digitalization of contents overall has been progressing". This is a clear shift in language. Initially, they blamed it directly on consumer habits. We've shown how that reasoning doesn't fully hold up when looking at the numbers.

Then they claim that digitalization does not only impact PlayStation, but "all kinds of content". And that is true. It has been on the rise for quite some years now. At the same time, this conveniently ignores any and all counter trends in recent years. It is a statement that makes it sound like their direction is inevitable on a global scale. But their direction is absolute. Their goal is to kill physical media entirely for games, while basically all other major entertainment sectors have at least a strong niche remaining, with various indicators that physical media is actually growing again. The recent Capcom report saw a 133 % rise compared to the same period of last year. The overall spending is up for physical games compared to the previous year (admittedly, aided by the Switch 2 release). Sony's own physical split last quarter is up, both compared to the quarter before and the same period last year. More and more signs point to a stable plateau of physical buyers at the very least.

The call continues and they drop the big one. A few seconds of stuttering followed by, "We put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we are cautiously going to move this forward."

They are not really giving any insights here. It is a "trust me, bro" in business speak. At the same time, if we take these words at face value, it means they are aware of the consequences, but do it anyway.

Endangering retailers across the globe by removing one of the biggest entertainment brands from the portfolio? Fuck them.
Removing a choice for consumers who were loyal to the PlayStation brand? Fuck them.
Stripping developers of an additional revenue stream and the chance to immortalize their art? Fuck them.
Forcing all remaining customers into an ecosystem without customer protection legislation? Fuck them too.

What thoughts did they put in exactly?

The only word that might give hope is "cautiously". But even that could be read in two ways. Either they are more cautious not to spark more backlash, but they want to continue regardless. Or they are actually waking up to the fact that this might cause more harm to them than they initially anticipated.

They follow up with "to this decision we have received various opinions and people have strong views" and how games are loved and connected to memories. The speaker claims that they "understand those emotions". Really?
Why are they calling it emotions when there is a long list of legitimate criticism entirely rooted in facts, though? Because they don't want to acknowledge the facts. Sony tries to paint the backlash as emotional without substance. As completely unfounded in anything tangible.

After this bit, they immediately continue to starting damage control for the future and start talking about the "future digital ecosystem". Again, in a manner that makes it sound without an alternative. "How do we engage the gamers, is something we would like to continue to explore", they say. What is that supposed to mean, you ask? It's entirely talking about how they can continue to boil the frog. This part of the statement was not revolving around giving customers anything. Our best guess is that it is the attempt to indirectly address the monopoly criticism, and that there is no customer protection in an all-digital future, and that customers will be entirely at the mercy of the platform with zero control over purchased goods.

With this statement the clip concludes. The overall tone remained. Cold, distant, no real explanations, no apologies for the past weeks either.

But they did get a message. It had some impact. They ran damage control here. 100 % confidence would look different. But they won't correct course for now.

It is up to us to continue. If anything, we need to step it up now. #PSBlackout is just one of those steps. Many more need to be taken. This needs a collective effort from all gamers, regardless of how you like to play your games.

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[rock @AteSomeEggs]

why is it actually just grotle

[Earclacks @Earclacks]

Club 🏏 VS 📔 Grimoire

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

In the original Greek version of Jurassic Park by Homer, Hammond was more of a con artist, but Spielberg interpreted him into a completely different character.

[Bring Back Banjo @BringBackBanjoK]

-Artificially limit physical options to encourage digital sales
-Count all DLC + mtx as digital sales
-Count physical key cards as digital sales
-Release codes in box to confuse casual consumers
-Conflate physical sales data with digital only releases

It's all by design btw