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dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Exactly! And maintaining the plant to make physical discs costs money. Sony can reduce costs by forcing everyone to digital copies. Customers will ultimately go along with it, because they understand their personal preferences are not worth as much as an extra $0.50 per game in profit.

Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?

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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sony lost a shit ton of money from their live service games projects. Sony execs probably told the PlayStation division to find a way to reduce cost and control the damage or heads will roll.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
No no no.

You don’t get how bad this is.

Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,… but this… this is a power play, a naked power play.

It isn’t even about money, because when you do what they just did… the definition of money, property, what a ‘sale’ is… that all changes.

They’re changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.

Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?

This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.

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Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Some beancounter at Sony realized that they could increase margins by a tiny amount if they removed physical disks. I bet they haven’t factored in the reputation loss from doing so and in the end it will come out that the margin gain will be overshadowed by the loss of sales.

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- egrets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The gamble is whether people jump ship, and given that the next Xbox won’t have a disc drive, it’s probably a safe bet for Sony overall.
  
  Ceasing disc production eliminates the substantial second-hand market, and resultantly also massively reduces the pressure to reduce prices on older games to compete with that market, especially for AAA titles.
  
  The loss of customers will probably be negligible compared to the amount of money they’ll rake in. It’s totally contemptuous in terms of the consumer, but it makes sense for them economically – and they would have done it years ago if they thought they could get away with it.
  
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- lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I just think this’ll be a massive boon for Nintendo, if they can resist shitty decisions themselves. The Switch 2 was a bust –
  
  My reasoning
  7.9" LCD, 279ppi 1080p when the standard is OLED, 500+ppi and 1440p+, and the size, while improving, is too close to a smartphone. Paired with a basic size battery and it has a disappointing battery life.
  
  – but Nintendo have the potential to be a hero in the next few years. As for Xbox, they have never been popular enough to overtake Sony, as well as also making shit decisions.
  
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  - Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nintendo isn’t a competitor with Xbox and PlayStation. It’s effectively a separate market with only one participant.
    
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ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sony DADC’s last plant is already transitioning to make micro lenses.

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