Dr. Zoidberg

[Del @TheCartelDel]

I own Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam. I can delete Steam at any time, copy the entire Cyberpunk game folder to another PC or drive, launch the executable directly, and it will play. I truly own it. PlayStation digital games cannot make the same promise.

[GamesNosh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GamesNosh]

I'm talking to people - Sony is currently being inundated with emails and messages behind the scenes from smaller publishers and devs voicing their displeasure over the end of physical games.

I'm actually kinda shocked just how much internal backlash there has been to this.

Doubt it'll make a difference, this was apparently a decision made by the money men within the last two months, is 100% influenced by component costs & manufacturing (AI ruining everything again)

They know nobody will buy a $1000+ PS6

They have calculated that the only way the PS6 makes business sense for them right now in terms of margins is to kill both the retail and resale market. Furthermore, they figure people are invested enough in the ecosystem that they're locked-in for life.

They fully expected a huge backlash and took it into account, but they think the anger won't amount to much in terms of real financial losses and are willing to take the PR hit.

Of the 15% of the current PlayStation audience that buy physical, they expect only 2-3% of people not to move over to fully-digital upon being forced.

The money saved by getting rid of the retailer cut, and lost on the reseller market eclipses that 2-3% and makes up for their miniscule profit expected per PS6 sold. (they will not sell it at a loss, but are willing to only make as little as $50 per unit sold)

The only way they'd ever reverse this decision is if the 2-3% of physical audience they expect to lose is instead around 8-10%+

As much as i'd love to see everyone come together and somehow force their hand with a mass boycott, I doubt it will happen.

They have been wanting to kill physical since around 2020, the AI RAMpocalypse has forced their hand.

[Jeff Fabre @Jeff_like_Feff]

As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.

[Rin | 凛 @TheIshikawaRin]

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.

[Karim Jovian @KJovian]

My Feed has been this ALL DAY

Looks like the world has turned against Sony

[Nekaishi ✟ Kitsune VTuber 🦊🦋 @nekaishi]

For the record, I think this is worth destroying Playstation over

Don't buy their console. Don't buy their games. Abandon their ecosystem and force them to earn you back

[Abier @abierkhatib]

If Gaza has taught me anything, it’s made one thing crystal clear: whenever they accuse someone, it’s really a confession of their own crimes

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Israel dropped the largest non nuclear bomb on innocent people of lebanon, the media silent no UN outrage human rights are silent.

FUCK ISRAEL
FUCK UN

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is truly psychopathic behavior

[BazzaCC @bazzacc2]

Bastards....😢😢

[siuuu🇵🇸🧊 @milsim020]

“Greatest game of all time”
“Gta 6 will be the GOAT”
“Rockstar always cooks”
> Kills the entire gaming industry in 7 days

[Lee Hunt @EternalLeeHD]

Dear PlayStation.

I'm sorry you don't want my money anymore. I'm sure I'll find other ways to spend it. Good luck with your future endeavours.

All the best,
An ex-customer

Physical media forever. X

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

JUST IN: Gamers have expressed serious displeasure at PlayStation's move to go fully digital, and warned they will turn to "other means."

"If we can't own what we pay for anymore, then piracy is not illegal."

[Jaynez 🎮 @JaynezPlays]

Without physical games:

- Midnight launches are dead
- Collectors Editions lose half of their value
- You can’t share, trade, or sell your games
- You can’t buy used games
- If there’s a server outage, you’re shit out of luck
- YOU OWN NOTHING

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

We should talk more about why the disc price and the download price of a game are EVER the same

[kike.games🏆 @kikegames97]

🚨 CONFIRMADO 🚨

@PlayStation ha ELIMINADO de nuestro historial de juegos del perfil todos los juegos que hayamos jugado mediante disco.

Esto es así desde hace 10 días, al principio no le di importancia pensando que se trataba de un error puntual que arreglarían, pero visto lo visto ayer, lo más probable es que no sea casualidad. A saber si lo arreglaran…

Se salvan únicamente juegos físicos de los cuales tengamos cualquier complemento digital adquirido a través de PlayStation Store, ya sean Expansiones, DLCs, cosméticos o actualizaciones a ediciones Deluxe.

Tampoco salen juegos que hayamos jugado mediante cuentas secundarias.

¿Error o declaración de intenciones?

[Weekend Warrior ☝️🐉🏆🐏 @wwarrior_1]

"shifting trend of consumer preference" my ass