cutting physical media cuts costs only for the company. they get to save on production, design, shipping and still charge the same thing with nothing being passed on to the consumer
It's time for a change, speak up against Sony and Playstation.
Push back the death of physical media, it's time to unite the whole gaming community to one common thing. Don't accept, SAY NO TO DIGITAL ONLY FUTURE
This includes everyone, USE YOUR VOICE!!!
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.
The show is called Every Brilliant Thing, and the math on why Daniel Radcliffe is doing it tells you everything about how wealth actually works.
Radcliffe earned roughly $95 million from the Harry Potter franchise between ages 11 and 21. His parents set up a holding company called Gilmore Jacobs Ltd. to manage the money. UK Companies House filings show it held £96.3 million in net assets as of early 2024, growing by an estimated £500,000 per month from investment returns alone. That's approximately $7.6 million per year in passive income before he picks up a script.
The Broadway numbers are small by comparison. The Hudson Theatre seats 970. At a $144 average ticket price and 98% capacity, the show grosses about $137,000 per performance. Eight shows a week puts weekly gross around $1.1 million. A lead actor's Broadway salary tops out around $100,000-150,000 per week. Over a 13-week limited run, Radcliffe's total take from Every Brilliant Thing is probably $1.3 to $2 million.
His investment portfolio generates that in roughly two months of doing nothing.
So why is he on 44th Street spending 20 minutes before every show handing out numbered cue cards, recruiting strangers to play his dad and his wife, then performing 85 minutes straight with no intermission, no co-stars, and a different audience every night?
Because at $110 million in net worth with a 35-year compounding runway behind him, the returns on career capital now exceed the returns on financial capital. Every role like this, every Tony (he won last year for Merrily We Roll Along), every five-star review builds the résumé that keeps him working on exactly the projects he wants for the next 40 years.
Radcliffe said it himself: "I want to be able to keep finding reasons to come back to Broadway for as long as I am physically capable of doing so."
The guy who got rich playing a wizard figured out the one thing most wealthy people never learn: once the portfolio compounds on its own, the optimal move is to spend your time on work that compounds your reputation instead.
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
voting for expedition 33 not because i have played it or liked it but because I refuse to vote for a game that uses gen ai voices lol. what an incredible way to kill any art direction