You can still resell the game key card, so it doesn’t kill the secondary market, though…
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Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 20 hours agoThe $60 → $70 price increase was just Nintendo being greedy, so the metaphorical “carrot” in this context is raising the price of physical copies relative to digital copies to $80 to diminish physical sales further as an excuse to get rid of them entirely, while the “stick” is the game key cards that take any meaning away from owning physical media in the first place.
In any case, disagreement is no reason to insult the intelligence of other users.
Doubarakau@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
They will still become worthless once Nintendo shuts down the Switch 2 servers, making piracy the only viable form of game preservation at that point beyond whichever means Nintendo will have to get people to buy the games a second time.
HairyTeeth@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Fair enough, sorry.
I had just finished reading the top voted response, which says Sony killing discs is about billionaires fucking children and may have misdirected my consternation out on you.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
They’re alluding to the inherent entitlement to systematic abuse that is a feature not a bug of capitalism.
If you think lefties being crass and exasperated online is us being batshit lunatics maybe Lemmy isn’t for you. Most online communication and aggregation that most people use on a daily basis is hyper-corporate, so the alternative being full of the people who don’t feel welcome there or are censored there or feel cast off from there shouldn’t surprise you.
HairyTeeth@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I think anyone who sees a post about the videogame market and immediately launches into a screed about billionaire pedophiles isn’t really helping whichever political viewpoint they purport to hold, may well deserve having been “castle off.”