PlayStation now has 8 community notes on the post and over 154M views, more than the GTA VI trailer.
They have gone completely silent for 6 days after the announcement of ending physical disks, and everyone is waiting for their next move.
According to Sony and many publishers, you don’t own your disc, you never did. Their terms can still restrict access or revoke licenses.
That’s why we fight for consumer law: physical media was one of the last limits on this control.
You will own nothing and be happy.
The “Don’t K*ll the Disc” petition has passed 111,000 signatures just four days after it launched.
>The campaign started after Sony announced it will stop releasing new PlayStation games on physical discs in 2028.
>Fans say physical games still matter because they can be bought, sold, traded, lent, and kept without depending on a digital store.
>Gamers say that going digital-only will hurt game preservation, give players fewer choices, and make them more dependent on Sony’s ecosystem.
https://t.co/XoFCV3lojX
Harsh reminder:
Shuhei Yoshida, the previous Head of Playstation, cared a lot about the customer. He was the one who made sure the PS4 had physical shareable discs that you could lend to friends or buy/sell used.
Then one day, the then President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan kicked Shuhei Yoshida out of the position of Head of PlayStation in 2019 because Yoshida disagreed with his direction for the company.
In hindsight, Jim Ryan’s “direction” became Playstation’s obsession with live service. Yoshida presumably told Ryan that it was a bad idea, and turns out, it was.
With Shuhei Yoshida gone, Hermen Hulst took his place.
After that, Playstation changed - the gutting of Sony Japan Studios in 2021, censorship of Japanese games ramped up, the live service, and the increase in consumer-hostile decisions such as PSN+ price hikes, removing games and movies from your library…
And now the decision to abandon physical discs by 2028.
When you look back at what made Playstation start to rot, it always started when Sony Interactive Entertainment moved its operations to California…and having leadership who want to do everything in their power to get rid of what made Playstation special.
You will never get another Shadow of the Colossus, another Bloodborne or a Gravity Rush - and you have people like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst to thank for it.
Microsoft is laying off 4800 employees today / 1600 Xbox employees impacted
-Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent
-Microsoft selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs
Full memo from Asha: https://t.co/1YMaLj9vBJ
Sony’s PlayStation Terms of Service state that buying a game doesn’t mean you own the software itself.
According to the agreement, words like “buy,” “purchase,” and “own” don’t transfer ownership of the game’s intellectual property. Instead, you’re given a license to use it, which can be revoked under certain conditions.
That’s why physical game ownership has become a major topic and everyone is fiighting for this
@StopKilingGames