Been a Playstation owner since 2001 and have bought every single console Sony released. With today’s news about physical games, PS5 will be my last Playstation console.
Fuck you @PlayStation@Sony
Just a reminder that I am only able to own and to personally preserve the quite rare Godzilla PS4 game because of physical media.
It was delisted from the PlayStation Store less than two years after it released and hasn’t been ported to modern platforms.
The disc disappeared.
The case disappeared.
The shipping disappeared.
The manual disappeared.
The map poster disappeared
Yet somehow the price went up.
Gamers are crack addicts that will justify anything to feed an addiction.
I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.
Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.