This is also effectively nuclear armageddon for game preservation, which is what I hate the most.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft
I hate Limited Run Games with every fiber of my being, but at least, at the very fucking least, the company does produce physical copies of otherwise digital-only games to help preserve them.
If they aren’t making physical discs then I assume this means they aren’t making them with disc players anymore, right?
Does this mean my old playstation discs are fucked and I can’t use them?
I still have my Overwatch disc from 2017
Yeah, pretty much. Think the Disc version of the PS5 might still be produced for the stragglers that remain in production, but the PS6 might be nothing more than a PC with far less features for what would’ve been a similar or only slightly-lower price than a PC would go for, if we weren’t constantly going into a new part shortage every year because of good-for-nothing tech bros.
okay but for them to not make physical games anymore they’d first need to actually have games
As someone who has been an Xbox fan for life I must say I laugh at Playstation users (I know damn well the next Xbox is going digital only)
i buy all my games digitally so like i dont really care
also i dont even have a playstation so this doesnt affect me
preserving the minecraft, lego and sonic discs i have at my house for 30 years
this would have mattered to me if i was still living in 2015 when i still bought disks
i buy all of my games digitally now and have done for the past decade so i dont really care
great time to upload tung tung sahur exe rpgmg on couple of discs
and sell them for 67 dollars ($) each-su and increase price every month
You will own nothing and be happy
You vill live in ze pod
You vill eat ze bugs
My thoughts are that this will probably reduce the amount of plastic used for physical discs, and that we could have more components inside of the game consoles due to the lack of a disc reader.
However this is going to be bad for anyone who wants to own the disc for a game… since people for some reason think that they’re safe if some corporate person decides to take the game off of the console.
I will say that the stuff to do with:
Since yes bluefighter, it’s not theft, but it’s still illegal and it’s considered piracy. It’s kinda stupid since I doubt that having the physical discs for a game protects you from the game being taken down.
But ig people would rather parrot these sentences than actually push policy makers to make policies to protect consumers…
Also I feel like some gamers don’t understand real life in a sense, since even if you buy a chair, that doesn’t mean that you keep that chair forever, it can break, but for some reason some gamers don’t understand that…
When people say that, usually they refer to the fact that, at literally any moment, Sony can shut down your playstation’s store and prevent everyone from downloading or playing games they own. Unless you have those games already downloaded and never uninstall them (i.e. imagine the Wii U eshop right now)
It’s not about specific games being taken down.
Anyway, my thought…
I literally haven’t bought physical games since like, switch year 1, probably 8 years.
Yet this is still really bad. Sony did it, so Nintendo and Xbox will be right after. There’s many downsides:
Regardless, I will buy games virtually. I literally live in the middle of nowhere, I have no stores. But this is still a big issue for many people and the industry as a whole.
But would you agree that people should be pushing for policy makers to make and enforce policies to help protect the consumers?
After reading this it made me think, why don’t companies make two different versions of the consoles, one that can accept discs, and another that can’t accept discs, that way you can choose to buy the one that suits you best.
Small problem though, the disc-supporting versions of both consoles are more expensive, even though the Digital-Only variants are already expensive as hell.
But isn’t that due to the extra components that the physical ones need to have to run said physical games???
Also I’m sorry but why did you say this? Is it something that I said? Since this feels really random.
Sorry, that was me trying to point out how Sony (and probably Microsoft) would likely not produce versions of their consoles that support discs if there wasn’t a market for physical games.
Yeah, fair; I feel like the extra cost for a disc drive would be okay, if the consoles weren’t already super expensive without it.
Forgor to mention that you are NOT seeing the refurbished consoles in stores. I don’t think those get put on store shelves at all, for any console producer.
