The funny thing too is I, and I’m sure many others, tend to gravitate to smaller studios now as the big ones are clusterfucked. Some of them don’t have the means to print physical copoes but got insanely popular so they only sell digitally.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This data is of course a few years old, it has probably shifted towards digital during Covid. But Playstation is still quoting misleading digital sales %, as a lot of small titles and DLCs are only sold digitally, skewing the numbers.
Physical discs disappearing will hurt all players, even digital-only buyers, as Sony will have no competition from the physical market, and can set prices as high as they think they can get away with.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I do have a strong suspicion that the end of the road of this type of move is going to end with an anti-trust case. Like, I don’t see any way to avoid that.
You can’t have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.
It may not be the US doing it, but I do think that some country is going to antitrust them.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My big problem besides the price monopoly is the lack of true ownership for digital media. It’s just expensive licensing that can be taken away or altered at any moment. If Sony gets his way, we are looking at a very dark future for gaming
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 6 days ago
Didn’t the EU, who have some of the strictest rules in that regard, rule that walled garden ecosystems are allowed in their case against Apple?
Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
they made the statement with apple but then decided the exact opposite with google. I think Sony will run into similar issues as google, but we will see
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 5 days ago
With Google, wasn’t the issue that they were on other devices, or were paying others to use their defaults or something? To be clear, I’m working from memory here, and am too tired to read a bunch of legal stuff to confirm one way or the other.