Dempsey

Boxing Snep

[Feyn @superfeyn]

Necron) Endeavor

[Nhim @Nhim_Art]

Commentary.

[🐺 Wolf Nanaki 🏳️‍⚧️ @wolfnanaki]

I miss woke. We didn’t have diarrhea lettuce, broken glass in bread rolls, or data centers consuming all of our clean water.

[🐺 Wolf Nanaki 🏳️‍⚧️ @wolfnanaki]

Gacha and Roblox game players have no right to complain about the cost of a retail game.

[gobo @goboee]

this might be the first time i've ever seen an anime characters smoke weed before 😭

[Tilly, Battle Maiden 🇵🇸💖 @DESTINOOOOOOOO1]

They took the catgirl, probably the most sexualized concept to come out of anime, and they used the contrast of that image and the brutal, disgusting reality of addiction and depression to make a story that says something.

And people are angry because it's not pornified goonslop

[Eggroller 🍳🌱 @The_Eggroller]

Depression

[emz 😼🍓 @emzberry]

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

[Kaplan @Kappische]

took a while, but codex hacked the game and finally managed to add widescreen and right stick camera control, so megaman legends is playable! No more tank controls!

[Maximilian Dood @maximilian_]

Damn. Having a physical game collection is so sick. Owning things is great. Like really great.

[charlotte of steel‼💥💥 @steelnil]

i was looking through the letterboxd reviews for lolita (1997) since i just finished watching it and i get the feeling people just wanted it to be like this

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option of a discless future https://t.co/6v0n5worYD

[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.

[The Retro Room 🎮🕹🎬🎥 @TheRetroRoomRoo]

The mighty have fallen

[Shirrako @ShirrakoGaming]

Consoles have no reason to exist without physical games.

[Jaynez 🎮 @JaynezPlays]

Without physical games:

- Midnight launches are dead
- Collectors Editions lose half of their value
- You can’t share, trade, or sell your games
- You can’t buy used games
- If there’s a server outage, you’re shit out of luck
- YOU OWN NOTHING

[Sean // Game Dev🥀 @sean_gause]

gamedev is so terrible rn. Every day you wake up and read a news article that says "xbox filled another successful dev studio office with killer bees and locked the doors" and then some guy in the comments is like "good, no more woke"