And as someone else pointed out in a different thread. No reselling disks or giving to friends.
Everyone has to buy their own downloaded copy per account.
And they dont have to soend the money for the reader. And the game company doesnt have to distribute hardware and can take more profit from the retailers.
Great chance to lay off thousands of retail workers ❤️
We never had game shops around me that look like the ones we saw online in other countries, those looked like relatively cool places to have around. I also once told a friend coming from the US to buy me a whole bunch of used games from a Gamestop and I was amazed how cheap they were. We only had overpriced originals or super cheap pirated games here, used cheap originals were neat.
I wouldn’t hang out in such a place as an adult (and I’m icked by retail-as-community-space) but maybe as a teenager it would have seemed nice. Just being able to ask the people working there for opinions or recommendations was probably a big part of how games work for people I’d imagine.
At that point why not just play it on PC? Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet? (Or worse, play via a launcher?)
Also, are the games gonna be cheaper now that they don’t need to produce the disks and packaging, transport them, store them in warehouses, stock them on shelves, etc.?
If supply and demand were a real science, this would represent infinite supply, right? So, wouldn’t you expect the price to approach 0.00?
Never gonna happen, lol (I’m ironic, that’s a tragedy).
Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet?
Are you seriously asking? Because I’ve seen time and time again, the answer to those kinds of questions seems to be yes. I think most people just don’t care, and they don’t need to, they’ll only buy a few games in a console’s lifespan to play for multiple years, and they’ll either just pick up what’s popular, or whichever one has a game they want to play.
Do they realize they can get their favorite console’s controller with a USB cable so they can still use it to play on their PC?
They held out until Linux gaming got good. Now they’re not needed anymore.
Linux on playstation
I know this sucks, but idk how to feel about it. I had a large collection of physical games, much like I’d imagine most gamers do, only to one day come home and find it all stolen. Insurance pulled the rug on me, and I didn’t get much for any of it. Since then I’ve bought everything digital and, while I know it can happen, I haven’t had any taken from me since. Of course, buying all the games physically would have been way more expensive as some of them are rare collectables now. I’m just happy I get to play them. I know I could lose it all again on a whim of some CEO, but I just feel there isn’t any reasonable solution.
Make sure you guys keep receipts, take pictures, secure your games, and pay extra for any collectables insurance. And don’t let insurance dictate the aggregate value lost, itemize everything and get quotes. You’ll still get ripped off, but hopefully you can rebuild what’s important if it happens to you.
Unironically, I can see physical game theft rising again as the supply is cut off altogether and plastic rot destroys what already exists.
Screwed from both sides.
I don’t keep my physical games, I buy and sell them regulary, so I keep my cost per game low, even for new titles. My problem with digital is that I cannot resell, it’s just a license I rent for full price
Reselling does nothing for Sony though, so losing the customers who are buying and selling used games isn’t a loss for them.
It’s like how people freaked out about how Netflix would surely collapse when they cracked down on password sharing, but it’s actually brought in a bunch more money for them. Losing viewers who aren’t paying for the service was actually a bonus. Even if there had been a bet zero change in subscribers, they’d save money from the reduction in traffic.
while I know it can happen, I haven’t had any taken from me since.
I had a couple hundred bucks worth of titles in my Amazon Digital Comics account when they shut all that down.
Now Sony cuts out the middle man and steals it from you directly.
I think that for now Nintendo Sony and Microsoft are keeping old stores accessible even if it costs them because they calculated the negative PR would cost them more (people wouldn’t hoard digital licenses for titles that don’t have time to play if they knew there’s a potential to be removed from their account before first install)
Ubisoft instead had no problems in removing titles from the Uplay accounts, instead
You got nothing to lose, but your subscription fees.
Is this what’s happening with the data centers, too? We’ll be expected to access the internet through
the cloudor centralized servers, so it doesn’t matter to big tech that computer parts are unaffordable to consumers? For the record, I am not happy about it.Somebody educate me, please. It’s worse when I don’t know exactly what’s happening.
Edit: strikethrough
Yes. We will priced out or in the long term even forbidden from owning the hardware needed to run games and other demanding sofware natively. All this to grant us the honor to rent back what we used to own through the cloud
I mean… the internet is the cloud and such? Your local computer isn’t generating the internet. The internet is all the accessible things from all the computers plugged in to it.
Theoretically browsing the internet is an extremely low demand thing to do with a PC. It used to be considered one of the lowest, until modern browsers became mostly one browser and every company decided it’s job was to harvest as much of your data as possible.
Not sure what the image is referencing exactly, but recently Sony announced they plan to kill off disks entirely, and so their games and everything will all be digital download… and also they just straight up deleted 551 movies they’d sold for years to tons of people, with no refunds or fucks given, because… I guess they didn’t want to pay to renew their license to sell them? And decided to make it retroactive. Because fuck poor people.
I assumed this was memeing the fact that they removed access to movies that people legitimately purchased without a refund, then saw the news that killed physical games…
Everyone will now avoid sony, right???
