Let's say the PS6 is a digital only console (pretty much guaranteed now) and 20yrs after it's release you wanna get a game for the PS6 but they've shut down the store just like they did for the PS3/Vita. What are you going to do?
You can't go to a gamestop, a pawn shop, a flea market, ebay or whatever. This is planned obsolescence in its' final form. PlayStation now has 100% control over how you buy and play a game.
Your boy wanna sell you a game for cheap? Can't do that, gotta buy full price on PSN. Wanna give your boy a game to check out? too bad, he's gotta buy it for $70 on PSN.
This is terrible for videogame preservation and consumer rights
@BringBackBanjoK Game Key Cards are just Nintendo's version of how physical games have worked on Xbox and PS for 14 years. It sucks but it's not anything new
@GiboAgain If there's a game coming out in the future that I know I'm gonna buy and I have the money for it now preordering can be nice sometimes because when it releases I just have it and don't have to worry about paying for it then