Let’s sum things up recently with PlayStation
- Increased PS5 Prices
- Removed over 500 movies/TV shows from PS Store
- Still wants to Focus on live service games after a whole generation of failure with them
- Closed Bluepoint
- Stop Disc Production in Jan 2028
What a joke…
> raise console prices
> get rid of physical media
-> you are here <-
> raise game prices to $100 and beyond
> completely remove the ability to share any digital games
> buying new games will become an expensive hobby, but don't worry they'll definitely make a subscription tier for new games that come out
> hardware will become pricier, the cheapest way to play is using cloud gaming services
> offer a subscription that is reasonable at first
> gradually raise subscription prices
You will own nothing and be happy
If we don't act about Sony's outrageous decision to stop physical media in 2028, gaming might be doomed
Without scarcity there is no profit. In the 1990s we had the option to build out so much generating capacity that it would have been too cheap to meter. Instead we privatised the energy industry, and this is the result:
In 12 years, the Russian army has managed to hold 10% of Ukraine by pre-war population.
That’s its neighbouring country.
Anyone who thinks the Russians are going to invade the UK is a crank.
@DanielPriestley Ones that have increased in cost are dominated by increases in fixed costs and ones which have stayed the same or decreased in price are easier to automate and have lower fixed costs.
@DanielPriestley This is nothing to do with government control/ownership or whether industries are totally left to the market and everything to do with the ability to automate these industries and whether these industries are service industries or manufacturing.
The reason Burnham asks for "ten years" is the same reason Starmer asked for it:
Because they've no intention of actually improving our lives, but they believe ten years is the maximum they can get away with with pretending they do.
This is simply the future of the so called 'liberal democracies' of Europe - leveraging Russophobia to justify public spending cuts to pay for weapons to fight America's enemies. An empire reallocating its resources away from its people and towards the point of it all (war)
At a certain point, income stops being about reward and starts becoming power. Taxing income above $1 million at 80% is not about hating success. It is about refusing to let extreme wealth buy a louder voice than everyone else in politics, housing, healthcare and public life.
@Chronus8@ClaireCoutinho Its higher wages because you need to attract people to do the work. If the wages are terrible people will look to be better compensated elsewhere.