Just to show you how scummy Sony is being with this news.
They anticipated their numbers would drop through people protesting/boycotting by canceling Ps Plus and pre-orders but they won't have to show their numbers to investors until the end of September.
Their next earnings call is July 31st however it only covers up to June 30th. They planned this out perfectly to drop it on July 1st for this very reason. The numbers dip early July, they have over 2 months to watch them HOPEFULLY recover as the deperate gamers crawl back and the investors see that Sony moving away from physical games didn't hurt anything.
Keep this is mind as we move forward. Sony is betting on you caving and crawling back to them in the coming weeks. Oh and so are the investors.
They're trying to give a guy 10 years in prison for ripping a piece of already-peeling sealant, after pardoning people who beat cops and stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a democratic election. What a screwed-up administration.
Never forgive them for what they took from us
Cheat codes
Game manuals
Demo discs
Couch co-op being normal
Split-screen multiplayer
Complete games at launch
No day-one patches
Unlockable characters
Secret costumes
Bonus modes
Physical collections
Cool disc art
Simple console dashboards
No account logins
No battle passes
No daily quests
No always-online single-player games
Weird experimental games
Mid-budget games
Licensed games with personality
Buying random games based on the cover
Gaming magazines
Game rentals
Main menus with soul
The feeling of actually owning your games
The excitement of a new console generation
What Max is alluding to here, is that the current administration has virtually no consumer protections operation whatsoever, and that's by design, to be as business friendly as possible.
There's also the fact that the Supreme Court is extremely corporate friendly.
So there's no legal avenue in the United States to realistically challenge Sony, or any large multibillion dollar firm.
This is all of a result of our current trend in electoral politics. Who we vote into office matters, and there are downstream effects that you wouldn't normally connect that flow out of who controls the American government.
I know a LOT of people have varied opinions on Max Dood, but on this point, he's actually right.
We seriously need to talk about how CBM spaces constantly hate new female adaptations by suddenly uplifting older female adaptations they previously hated. It's the same cycle every single time.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive?
And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
This is what I was tweeting about yesterday. We can no longer rely on the assumption ai will be visually distinct or bad looking. Yesterday I heard an ai song that was horrifyingly good to where I was shocked it was ai. You must be against ai on principle, not bc of aesthetic
This is EXACTLY why representation matters, and why men who try to torpedo female lead movies are massive dipshits.
One of the best parts of film is being able to witness life from other people's perspectives and learn some empathy and how to relate to others.
China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots hate green energy. This is suicide by stupid.
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The “85% purchases are digital” figure is a complete LIE.
They include figures like mobile games, small games without a physical release, and even *DLC* into that number.
People buy physical, but they want you to feel small and powerless. DON’T LET THEM
> be a PS5 owner
> you paid extra for the disc drive
> Sony ends physical discs for new games in 2028
> PS Store on PS3 and Vita dies by 2027
> 551 movies wiped from UK and EU libraries Sept 1
> zero compensation
> GTA 6 ships as a code in a box
> some Switch 2 games ship as empty cards, just a download key
> used games and rentals could be next
> analysts warn discounts might disappear too
> Sony would control the entire price curve
> 87 percent of pre 2010 games are already out of print
They didn't kill physical media. They stopped pretending you ever owned anything.
A Nazi eagle at the White House. 88 foot flagpoles. Nazi salutes. Third Reich slogans such as “One Homeland, One People, One Heritage” & “One of ours, all of yours.” These aren’t parallels or coincidences. They’re turning America into Nazi Germany 2.0 and rubbing our faces in it.
Cuba is a Socialist country and one of the poorest in the world suffering under a 60+ year economic blockade by the richest country in the world.
Guess which one has better healthcare, life expectancy, literacy, lower infant mortality and every type of crime.
It ain't the USA.
If Benito ever has business in front of the court, I’ll worry about this.
In the meantime, how about you write something up about Thomas and Alito taking luxury trips and gifts from corrupt billionaires with cases in front of the court?
Seems important.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes," –Donald J. Trump
Isn’t it ironic that the guy caught on tape trying to overturn an election is the same guy screaming about mass voter fraud?
That’s the psychological voodoo Trump pulled on America. He convinced millions of people that a voting system that worked for generations suddenly became “broken” the moment he lost, and broken in a way only he could fix.
But Trump doesn’t fix systems. He breaks them, blames someone else, and then sells himself as the repairman.
Trump is the mass voter fraud.