Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Articles were going around yesterday talking about Microsoft’s next console being digital only.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I sympathize with people huffing copium with “but XBOX!” regarding physical games, but they need to think about what they’re saying. It’s Microsoft!

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    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Until yesterday you no doubt thought Sony would never do what they just announced. Maybe don’t “Xbox too” just because you want Xbox to.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The next XBOX won’t have a disc drive.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The current Xbox is going to be supported for another 10+ years at this rate. They’re going to keep selling games on disc for it.

    The next Xbox is a pc, which is already all digital.

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• ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So you’re just hoping Microsoft also get rid of discs because you don’t want them to still sell them if Sony doesn’t. Gotcha.

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• ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Microsoft tried to make their consoles digital only years ago. They only added the disc drive back because Sony’s marketing of the PS4.

  Now that Sony’s out, MS will gleefully follow

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are you talking about?

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    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At E3 in 2013, Microsoft announced that all games, including physical copies, would be electronically bound to your Microsoft account, making “physical” copies just keys for their digital network.

      Sony famously made fun of them, and forced Microsoft to change course for the Xbox One/PS4 era

      vice.com/…/one-of-playstations-most-iconic-ads-ha…

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      • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OK good that you at least edited your statement about the disk drive out, because that was wrong.

        In to the Xbox One announcement, you’re leaving out very important information - the fact that they were allowing trading/re-selling and loaning of said digital games.

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