Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only

Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I could resell my digital copy after I beat it that’d be cool.

  I highly doubt that want you to be able to do that

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  • Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh, I know, that was sarcasm sprinkled with the tiniest amount of wishful thinking.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You are fine, just enjoy it while it lasts. I’m not going to throw my PS5 into the fire either, but I will not buy their next console, nor will I buy their games from 2028

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  • Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exactly this. Now we just play the long…long…long waiting game until we’re able to properly jailbreak the PS5 (not on 5 year old firmware) so we can use the dang thing we own as we see fit.

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My hope is that this will give a boost to console piracy again. There will be a huge demand

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  • Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, there are currently plenty of games for me to catch up on and buy before the deadline, most notably that physical copy of Silksong coming out in October (?). I’m just annoyed because I waited THIS long to get one, this is my first PS, and I then read this announcement a month later. I told my wife that with this console, if I was gonna splurge on it, would not be full of digital games like our Switch, only physical copies. So, I’m glad I can use PS4 and PS5 discs and that they have a large library full of stuff for me to spend my time and money on, just a little peeved that they had to do this at this scheduled time. But hey, who knows, maybe the announcement leads to public backlash and they reconsider their plan to phase out physical games. I can dream.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The PS5 will continue getting games for quite some time, I imagine. The lack of physical media won’t stop most people from getting a PS6, but its price will. It will never have the install base the PS5 does, so their games will be cross-gen for years into the PS6’s life cycle just like with the PS4 and PS5.

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